Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longest and oldest trade route in the world", Mr. Warner went on, "extends from the northern part of India through a narrow province of modern China to the valley of the Yellow River. This province, Kansu, is where we did most of our work, finding traces of Chinese art, influenced by the Indian Buddhist traders who brought ponies and jade to exchange for the wool and skins of the Tartars. This art is in the form of statues and frescoes left in caves, shrines and temples from the border of Turkestan to Loyang, where the Chinese civilization of that...
...Passed a Senate bill increasing the pensions of Civil War, Mexican War, Indian Wars veterans, an'd the widows of veterans of 1812.¶ Passed a resolution authorizing a joint Congressional Committee to investigate land grants to the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. ¶ Considered the Department of Agriculture appropriation bill and passed it carrying $57,000,000, but without a provision for free seeds to be distributed by Congressmen...
Government the Government of Ireland Act, which divided Ireland into two parts, Southern Ireland containing 26 counties and Northern Ireland containing six counties...
...British Government were incorporated. One of the clauses of the treaty provided in certain contingencies for the establishment of a Boundary Commission to determine "in accordance with the wishes of the inhabitants, so far as may be compatible with economic and geographic conditions," the real boundary between Northern Ireland and the Free State...
...Northern Ireland now claims that the boundary was fixed by the Act of 1920 and that she was not a party to the 1922 Act. The Free State demands revision of the 1920 Act under the provisions...