Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years later, one of the most sought-after ceramic artists in America. He lives frugally in a simple shack in the North Carolina mountains, does his own work except for a clay-boy and a horse to turn his mixing-wheel. From the rich mineral clay of the region he shapes and bakes vases and bowls of exquisite pattern and myriad hues-rose, amber, mahogany, violet, sang de boeuf. Some of his types, known as "Omar Khayyam vases," command high prices from connoisseurs. No two of his pieces are alike...
...power, while revolt against both has sporadicaly brought about the election of a third-party candidate. Such revolt dates farther back than the recent election to Congress of Magnus Johnson in Minnesota, even farther than 1891, when James B. Weaver was presidential candidate of the populists in the same region...
...amulets to the drugs of Western science, he traveled with the Mecca pilgrimage from Damascus as far as Medain Salih, later wandering through the vast, waterless marches of Central Arabia until he reached the hills and oasis of Kheybar-then south again with a caravan to the Mecca region, ending at the English Consulate at Jidda-a two years' saga of fortitude. And every stone, every plant, every beast on the way he observed with an eye as impartial as an angel's, set down the history and peculiarities of every tribe he met, passed through enough adventures...
...need of his presence during the session of the Legislature. He went to Mindanao where the Moros had massacred a detachment of Filipino constabulary. Instead of returning he sent for his aides and a hundred more constabulary. Then he set out on a tour of the disaffected region. His despatch to the War Department said: " Killing of constabulary grew out of alleged grievance against constabulary and local supervising teachers, all Filipinos...
...archeological work for the Guatemalan Government. On some of the monuments the figures are all male; on others, all female. There is an entire absence of representation of weapons of war, indicating the advanced and peaceful state of culture. The United Fruit Company, which has big plantations throughout the region, is helping to protect the Guatemala ruins...