Word: mekong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the late famed hunter-President, sailed from Manhattan on the Homeric, with animals in mind. They plan to penetrate the unexplored lands along the Mekong River in Tibet, where, among other things, they will seek to capture a takin, rare ruminant, something like an antelope and something like a goat...
...world many times, killing lions, tigers and hippopotami. I will kill your enemies just as willingly." He was forced by Germany and Austria to withdraw his offer. In the war he "offered his sword " to the Allies in turn, but without success. He even offered his steam yacht, the Mekong, to the French Government, but they refused it; the British Navy, however, accepted it. He turned his residence, the Château de Randan, into a hospital for wounded soldiers...