Word: siberia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Prince Kropotkin, who is making a brief visit in Cambridge as the guest of Mr. Ely of the Prospect Union, will lecture on "Siberia, the Land of Exile," in Brattle Hall, Cambridge, on Monday evening, Nov. 8. Tickets may be obtained at Amee Bros., and at the Cambridge Social Union, 42 Brattle street...
...marshals are discovered in Russia separated from the army, and trying to conceal their identity from the Russians. They are in great straits when the army makes its appearance and rescues them. At the opening of the second act a specialty called "Off to Siberia," written by F. J. Harris '95, J. McC. Longacre '96, and H. W. Sage 2d, '95, will be introduced and performed by the above mentioned with the addition of W. K. Fowler...
...only surviving officer of the ship Jeanette, that made its memorable expedition to the north in 1879. The ship was caught fast in the ice-floe and drifted north-west for twenty-two months. At the end of this time the ship was five hundred miles from Siberia, the nearest land, and was so badly crushed bp the ice that it had to be abandoned. The retreat to land was full of hardship. The men were weighted down with baggage, and progress over the uneven surface of the ice was slow and laborious. Two miles a day was all that...