Word: niger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a young lady from Niger...
...defense of Paris, unsuccessfully. With soldiering in his blood, he went to the Far East, assisted at the French occupation of Formosa in 1885. Eight years later he performed the feat described in his book My March on Timbuktu. Starting down the left bank of the River Niger on Dec. 27. 1893, he marched and skirmished 813 kilometres (504 mi.) in 48 days, entered on Feb. 12, 1894 "The Town of Timbuktu, the Meeting Place of Camel and Canoe,"† Steady promotion carried Joseph Joffre by 1911 to the post of Chief of the French General Staff "at only...
...called because, located at an extremity north of the Sahara Desert, it is also only a few miles Kiver Niger. Present population, 7,000 humans who supply the wants of many thousands of caravan camels, 18,000 caravan and river traders yearly, also weave cotton, make pottery, do leatherwork, pluck a little embroidery...