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Ecuador. Panama and Peru from Spanish rule, founded and gave his name to Bolivia. He died penniless and in a borrowed nightshirt at San Pedro Alejandrino, Colombia, of tuberculosis, Dec. 17, 1830. Said he: "All we have gained is independence, and we have gained it at the cost of everything else. . . . Those who have toiled for liberty in South America have plowed in the sea." Phrasemakers delight in the comparison between Simon Bolivar and George Washington. Pedantic historians deplore it, point out that Bolivar was violently emotional, often extremely cruel; that while Washington constantly urged the U. S. to avoid...
Colombia: Declared a legal holiday, held open-air masses, military reviews. Villagers of San Pedro Alejandro eagerly awaited a golden wreath being flown from New York by Pan American Airways. In the farmhouse where Bolivar died, a golden crown was unveiled in the death chamber by President Olaya Herrera...
...claims about 150,000. Editorially, Whiz Bang was built around the rousing escapades and shady epigrams of the characters of "Whiz Bang Farm" (supposedly at Robbinsdale, suburb of Minneapolis): Gus, the hired man, Olaf, Deacon Callahan, his daughter Lizzie (whose virtue was always being designed upon) and Pedro, the Whiz Bang bull. (Rejection slips to authors explained that "Pedro, the Whiz Bang bull, didn't like this one.") It was and is a collection of frankly bawdy lines and pictures, or innocent double-entendres dependent upon reader-knowledge of an unprintable joke. While Whiz Bang has never been barred...
...their native Sahara. Their wily stubborness made them unpopular with the soldiery; they stampeded horses and cattle. Nevertheless they were tested systematically in desert service for several years. In 1860 some of them helped build the famed Butterfield Stage road. In 1863 a dromedary express was started from San Pedro (port for Los Angeles) to Tucson, but it failed...
...Pedro, Calif., the Lions Club had a Hallowe'en dinner a year ago, frolicked and hurled food at one another. Lion William J. McWhinnie was hit by a lump of sugar, lost an eye, last fortnight went to court against his fellow Lions...