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...even more startling story to follow it. The Greek Orthodox Church has in its guardianship the third of three temples of which all Christendom is jealous: the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and the Monastery of St. John in Patmos, one of the northernmost of the Dodecanese Islands.* On Patmos John is supposed to have hidden in a cave and received the vision of the Apocalypse (''The Book of Revelation''). The monastery on the site was built there by St. Christodulus in the 11th Century. The Dodecanesian Society in Athens...
...Northernmost point of New York State, snug against the Canadian border, is Rouse's Point, identified in Baedeker's guidebook as a U. S. "frontier-station," in the U. S. Government's mind as a famed port of entry for Canadian liquor. Its local press is the weekly North Countryman. Last week the North Countryman charged itself, along with the rest of the U. S. Press, with "selling the Depression to the people through millions of columns of free advertising in the guise of news." The North Countryman (circ. 2,000) promised to print not another line...
Lofty, lovely and fertile are the valleys of the Samoa Islands, which lie in the South Pacific more than halfway from Hawaii to New Zealand, in the latitude of Australia's northernmost tip. Some of the islands, including Upolu (on which Robert Louis Stevenson died), were once a German, have been since the War a New Zealand mandate. The eastern group-Tutuila, Aunuu, Ofu, Olosega, Tau and Rose-belong to the U. S. by an Anglo-German treaty of 1900. And in 1925 the U. S. annexed tiny Swain's Island. Total U. S. Samoa comprises...
...northernmost Norway, in Barents Sea between Scandinavia and Spitsbergen, in Stockholm and in Oslo last week there was confusion?the confusion that results when the Press sets its pack upon the trail of a remote and elusive news story. The discovery on White Island. Spitsbergen, of the bodies of the Swedish explorer Salomon August Andree and his companions, lost on their poleward balloon flight of 1897, was the Story (TIME, Sept. 1). Its remoteness was heightened to a degree maddening to the Press by the fact that the bodies, relics and Andree's diary were aboard the little sealer Brattvaag...
Says Author Walpole, writing of England's northernmost county: "There is no ground in the world more mysterious, no land at once so bare in its nakedness a rich in its luxury, so warm with sun and so cold in pitiless rain, so gentle and pastoral, so wild and lonely; with sea and lake and river there is always the sound of running water, and its strong people have their feet in the soil and are independent of all men." Cumbrian natives say the same thing in fewer words: "Canny auld Cumberland bangs them a still...