Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within the same period [six months from the coming into force of the Treaty] Germany will hand over to his Britannic Majesty's Government the skull oj the Sultan Mkwawa, which was removed from the Protectorate of German East Africa and taken to Germany...
Inside this famed skull had been the shrewd brain of the black Sultan Mkwawa of Tanganyika. Some say he died by his own hand, others that he was beheaded when his rebellion in the 90's against the Imperial Germanization of East Africa failed and he was about to be captured. Inside the living skulls of the Negroes ot East Africa grew a superstition that they were doomed to endless calamity until Mkwawa's skull was returned to them The Britons who tried to rule them bribed the tribal chiefs into loyalty. But without the skull, the chiefs...
...packing cases in a German warehouse in the East African lake town of Bukoba. One "was slightly packed with sawdust and had a smaller case inside. This also was very well made and strongly fastened. When I opened this the contents proved to be a native's skull. Whether this was the skull of Mkwawa I cannot say, but very great care had been taken in packing it." He concluded that he did not know what became of the skull, because he left it where...
...weekly luncheons. He drives his own automobile, unlike his immediate predecessor in Santa Fe, Archbishop Albert T. Daeger, who was often seen humbly carrying his own suitcases on the streets, who rode in buses and who, last December, absentmindedly stepped from one into a concrete pit, fractured his skull and died...
...wing collar, a prominent gold chain suspended across the expansive stomach. "Fancy Dress Costume, for Fete Days on His Yacht" showed a headless Long John Silver clad in pirate's costume, a crutch tagged "1929" under one arm, a bag of money in one hand, a hat bearing skull & bones and the word "Corsair" (Morgan yacht) on his head. The fourth costume was striped trousers and shirt, a green-flowered apron, blue gloves, green-rimmed spectacles, shears, trowel. Title: "Gardening Frock, for Horticultural Moments...