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...have led in Wob-Wog a French, archaeological expedition to Chinese Turkestan, which has yielded, I believe, important finds from the double point of view of philology and a archaeology. In the Western part of Chinese Turkestan, at a place which was supposed to be a late Mohammedan shrine, I have found the ruins of a Buddhist temple of about 500 A. D. and collected there quite a number of clay figures, turned to a sort of a terra-cotta when fire was set to the temple and which show unmistakable signs of hellenistic influence. From another temple...
...Epic of Slavic History is at present on exhibition in Prague, Czechoslovakian capital, where a permanent gallery for it will soon be built. It is fitting that on the tenth anniversary of Czechoslovakian independence the country should possess such a Slavic shrine, a goal for pilgrims. Slavs have inspired the shrine, a Slav has peopled it with the painted legion of his forbears, Slavs will visit it with sympathy. But the scheme was fostered by an American, financed with U. S. money. The entrepreneur is grey-haired, goateed Charles Richard Crane, supposedly of Manhattan, in reality most traveled of Americans...
...Klan-whether it is constitutional for States to require secret organizations to put their secrets on file. 3) A test case about Shriners-whether persons founding fraternal orders may closely copy or parody the names of established orders like the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. (Negroes substituted "Egyptian" for "Arabic." Texans got an injunction...
Died. Basil King (pen name of William Benjamin King), 69, onetime Canadian minister of the Episcopal Church, later famed as blind author of opti-mystical novels (The Inner Shrine, The Conquest of Fear, Street Called Straight); after a four-year illness; in Cambridge, Mass...
This gave them an opportunity to look over Cozumel, island off the coast of Yucatan, and to discover, in a cave at Ucul ("hidden water") a shrine to the Mayan rain god, an excellently preserved little building whose stucco, after centuries of exposure, is still white...