Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been so hostile to explorers that little scientific research has been possible. Now that the attitude of the Indians is reported to be more friendly, Dr. Spinden believes there is a good chance that discoveries of importance will be made. The Mayas were a city dwelling people and the peninsula of Yucatan was once densely populated. Many great cities are known to have existed. In them impressive architecture, painting and sculpture, together with inscriptions and writings dealing with scientific work, have been found. Dr. Spinden reports that the primary object of this expedition is to obtain accurate maps and photographs...
...Klan seems to have been taking a leaf out of Mussolini's book, inspired by the sight of how completely II Bonito controls his excitable peninsula; and its failure to obtain its objectives may be accounted for by the inability of Americans to do things as dramatically as Italians. The ground was prepared well. Many Americans are convinced that our national institutions are gravely threatened, and many more feel the childish thrill of joining with an organization dealing in large popular movements. The American public is as susceptible as any other to political charlatanism. The Klan uniform is much more...
...same. (He is nevertheless experimenting in Mexico.) He sent one to Liberia and he reported that he had never seen so perfect a place for rubber growing?good soil, good climate, comparative freedom from disease, undeveloped country, cheap land, abundant labor at rates even cheaper than in the Malay Peninsula. That is how the plan originated...
...nineteenth century, the Hapsburgs, in burgs, in procession of northern Italy, were engaged in putting down the political aspirations of the rest of the peninsula. In 1903 Francis Joseph vetoed a papal election, exercising the prerogative which his predecessors, the Holy-Roman emperors had claimed a thousand years before...
...Guinea, Ruanda and Urundi, Tanganyika, Yap, to which number should probably be added the countries on which no report has been made at all: Andorra, Ethiopia, Liberia, Muscat, Nauru, Siam, the Togolands (British and French). Practically within this group are countries which have sent less than five immigrants : Arabian Peninsula, French Cameroon, Japan,* Monaco, Samoa, Southwest Africa...