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...dark of the moon one night, just after midnight, a force of Gurkhas moved stealthily forward toward Djebel Fatnassa. Gurkhas are dark little men from Nepal who take to slopes like goats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Piston | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Freckled, fabulously jeweled Sandra Rambeau, Springfield, Mo. chorus girl who danced at Monte Carlo for the Duke of Kent, Prince Vishnu of Nepal, many another royal admirer, was reported to have been quietly married in Paris to Adolf Hitler's longtime military mentor and president of the Reich Colonial League, 72-year-old Lieut. General Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp, Reichstatthalter for Bavaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...nations may send at least 100 annually to the U. S. Bhutan (in the Himalayas), the British Cameroons, Liechtenstein, Muscat, Nauru, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Yap and ten others sent none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Travel Log | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...begins with Japan. From Japan, the book takes the reader to Manchukuo, makes a brief stopover in Siberia, moves on to China and then, going south and east by way of the Philippines and The Netherlands Indies, rounds the Malay Peninsula for a look at Siam, India, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Burma, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans-Jordan and finally Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: Almanac de Gunther | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...second wife put their special floating trailer aboard ship in Manhattan, set sail for Africa to collect ostriches and wart hogs for the American Museum of Natural History. But pheasants from the Plant collection of 3,000, one of the largest in the East, were among the Nepal Kaleeges, Blue Manchurians, Cheers, Versicolors and Impeyans which graced the Poultry Show. "They're just to look at," explains Fancier Plant. "They might replace peacocks that people keep in penthouses. They're like a miniature peacock, but they're more dainty. There are 56 varieties. Hell, there are only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Fancy Pheasants | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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