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...contrast to working conditions in America, the Berber women do all the heavy labor of grinding meal, churning milk, carrying wood, and making pots by hand, while the husbands content themselves with driving the goats to and from the pasture. "Bedouins of the Sahara," and "Medieval Moderns," which is an intriguing study of the charming simplicity of peasant life on the plains of Hungary, are two other splendid films of this period...
...called because, located at an extremity north of the Sahara Desert, it is also only a few miles Kiver Niger. Present population, 7,000 humans who supply the wants of many thousands of caravan camels, 18,000 caravan and river traders yearly, also weave cotton, make pottery, do leatherwork, pluck a little embroidery...
...obtain the bodies of fog-victims for autopsy), scientists could only guess what may have happened. Guesses: "Deadly gases from the tail of a dissipated comet."-Professor Victor Levine of Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. "Germs brought from the Near East by the winds which have carried dust from the Sahara Desert to Europe recently, producing muddy rains."-Colonel Joaquin Enrique Zanetti, Wartime poison gas expert, chemistry professor at Columbia University, Manhattan. "I did not allude to the Bubonic Plague in speaking of the Belgian fog. I said pneumonic plague. I meant ... an acute respiratory infection attacking the lungs." -Famed...
...cost of $30,000. Troops of them were maintained at El Paso, Fort Bowie, Ariz., Fort Tejon, Calif. Loaded with 1,000 to 1,500 lbs. of supplies, they did not cross the U. S. desert, hard-packed and lava-strewn, so well as they had crossed 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...
France. Temperatures rose to 104° in Paris, 122° at St. Etienne. Paris meteorologists reported dust from the Sahara in the air. Mannequins from the dress houses strolled along the Champs Elysees in backless dresses. Victim of sunstroke: Etienne Clementel, author, senator, one-time Minister of Colonies...