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...July 24, 1922 Seattle witnessed a memorable wedding. A thousand spectators were present in Woodland Park Zoo. The city's Nile Temple of the Mystic Shrine had outdone itself in pageantry. In first, attended by a burro named Nazimova, marched Potentate, young male camel lately imported from Shanghai by Shriner Hugh Caldwell, onetime Mayor of Seattle. He was joined by Nile, a female camel also brought from Shanghai by the Shrine, attended by a pony named Marguerite. When Imperial Potentate James McCandless of Hawaii pronounced them camel & wife, Potentate turned, gravely munched Nile's topknot bouquet of sweet...
Last week in Woodland Park, having marched in many a Shrine parade and been ridden by 24,380 children. Potentate died, aged 15. Buried without ceremony, he was survived by Nile and by their husky nine-year-old son, Outer Guard...
Egypt. At Gizeh, near the great pyramids of Chephren and of Cheops, Professor Selim Hassan of Cairo gouged into a bank of mud and sand left by the encroaching Nile, came upon the limestone tomb of a princess whom he took to be the daughter of Chephren. This Pharaoh was of the Fourth Dynasty, which experts variously locate between 3,100 and 2,800 B. c. The sarcophagus was completely sealed with mortar, evidence that thieves had never broken...
...from Princeton he went to Egypt in 1923, headed the English department of the American University at Cairo for five years before he was called to Dartmouth. While at Cairo he introduced basketball to Egyptian youngsters, wrote the first book of basketball rules in Arabic, started a 16-team Nile Valley League which is flourishing today. Blond, squarejawed, and piously Episcopalian, Dr. Eddy is married, has two boys, two girls, can beat any of them at chess...
...area the greater the uncertainty. He gave a problem which, if it were not for the uncertainty of inferences, would be readily solvable: "The agricultural land of an Egyptian village is of unequal fertility. The fertility of every portion is known with exactitude, but the height of the Nile affects different parts of the territory unequally. It is required to divide the area between the several households of the village, so that the yield of the lots assigned to each shall be in pre-determined proportions, whatever may be the height to which the river rises...