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...marked the 20th anniversary of the airplane. On the same day of the year 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright, sons of a clergyman of Dayton, O., in a curious boxlike machine made largely of wood, wire and canvas, propelled by a small gasoline engine, rose from a giant sand dune at Kitty Hawk, N. C, and made an epochal flight of 12 seconds. Taking the air a second time, they flew 852 feet in 59 seconds. The young inventors had braved the derision of all their neighbors, the scepticism of the world at large to create the first airplane...
...subjects. The Languedoeian scorpion (not the common black scorpion of Europe, which is harmless) is a grotesque, straw-colored beast, 3½ inches long, with bony armor and a hard, sharp, poison-tipped tail. Only a Fabre could be intimate with him. He digs his own home in the sand under rocks. He feels his way with his pincers, because, despite his eight staring eyes, he cannot see straight ahead. His courtship is an epic, ending in the slaughter of the ardent male by his cannibal mate. Fabre in his last years, though always living in poverty, received the acclaim...
...Purification of sewage through layers of bacteria (called Schmutzdecke) at the top of sand filters. This method, while important in small communities and in the early stages of sewage sanitation (about 1870-1910), becomes too costly in large cities because of the land space required...
...been called "a rope of sand" because it is a federation of autonomous unions, not a union of dependent bodies. It was originally formed in opposition to the contrary ideal of the Knights of Labor. The fact that the rope of sand has become a powerful organization may be attributed largely to the personal energy of the man at its head...
...sensational success of the cinema version of his The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that "made" Rodolfo Guglielmo (stage name Rodolfo Valentino), cinema star. Some of his other novels; Blood and Sand, La Bodega, Mare Nostrum, The Shadow of the Cathedral...