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...dinosaur. The fragments were black, rough, pitted. Near the locality, in the same geological formation, the scientists were surprised to unearth the tooth of a mammal. Mammals are seldom found in cretaceous formations. Other dinosaur eggs known today were found seven years ago by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews in Mongolia. His eggs were estimated to be several million years older than Dr. Jepsen's. The only other eggs were unearthed years ago in England. British paleontologists did not recognize them at the time, threw them on a rubbish heap in the basement of the British museum. Several years...
...organ, Cheesekraft. A typical Kraft-talk by "J. L.": "I do not suppose anyone else ever planned a cheese business to live through the ages . . . after we are gone, there will be Kraft salesmen trekking the veldt of Africa, braving the snows of Siberia and battling the superstitions of Mongolia-all earnestly striving to increase sales, which by that time will be far in excess of a hundred million...
...early in 1929 a great many of the forged British and American notes were despatched to Mongolia for General Feng* while large amounts were sent by the Soviet Government to Irkutsk, Siberia, to be used in the Far East...
Reason: the owners, some former nobles and princes of Mongolia, had not cultivated their land in the high-pressure fashion ordered by Red Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME...
...with French children and adults. Here rhythmically translated from the French, the stories are of hares, mice, alligators, a tree frog, a wind, an unborn chicken, all reverently humanized. France's Author Cendrars, alone in Russia at 15, made his living roaming from Lapland to the Caucasus; from Mongolia to Siberia to China. In 1908 he landed in Manhattan from a tramp steamer, turned poet. Later he lost his right arm in the War, wrote for the Swedish Ballet, compiled Negro poems, folklore...