Word: norsemen
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...blunt silvery cigar tilted heavenward to an angle of 45 degrees. Then propellers roared, stern ropes were flung off, every one waved and up they shot toward Italy's bright blue sky ? Colonel Umberto Nobile, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel of the good airship Norge as she soared above the Ciampino Airdrome to begin the first leg of her Rome-to-Nome transpolar flight...
...most important feature of the whole trip was a stone church found on the way home at Gotthaab, Greenland, which he was certain had been erected by early Norsemen. It was finely preserved; the walls, laid without cement, being smooth as a ship's deck. It had evidently served as a fortress, with peepholes for windows. Ruined homesteads lay near. Next summer MacMillan will investigate the Gotthaab remains more fully, and other remains on an island near Labrador, to establish the route by which the Vikings penetrated his native New England...
...seen some sixty years ago by the Franklin Search Expedition. The trip upon which he will embark in June will be for the purpose of investigating southwestern Greenland, a land about which mystery clings even now. About 1000 A.D. this section of Greenland was inhabited by some 7,000 Norsemen, but since they have since completely disappeared, apparently without reason. At the present time there are two theories as to their disappearance. One is that the Norsemen were wiped out by the "Black Death": the other is that they migrated to the North...
...street wags in a friendly, but nevertheless one sided game of hockey. About an hour and a quarter afterwards, the sky-rockets will begin to shoot and the cellar of the Union will witness hilarity such as it has not experienced since the days of Lief Erickson when the Norsemen defeated the Indians in a game of leap-frog on this very spot...
...central thought of the pageant is derived from the custom of tree worship practiced by the ancients. Starting with the crude and superstitious worship of the early Norsemen, the practice is followed down through the ecclesiastical history of the various tribes and peoples that inhabited Europe before the time of Christ, and finally ends with the springing into life of our own Christmas tree. The program will be divided into two parts. In the first, groups of people representing the different nationalities of the ancient world will appear, each group carrying its national tree of life. Dancing and acting representing...