Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot was last reported in Tunis. He will visit Malta, Sicily and Southern Italy...
...states the proportion is far greater. New Hampshire, for example, has a library to every 2,700 persons. The neighboring states of Massachusetts and Connecticut furnish a library to every 3,134 and 3,479 persons respectively. California, Colorado, Wyoming and Michigan stand well up on the list. The Southern States, as might be expected, make the worst showing, Arkansas bringing up the rear with one library to every 50,158 of population...
...information which the circular calls for relates to the topographical and meteorological conditions, and incidentally the geographical situation of places in the southern hemisphere deemed to be eligible. It is suggested that books of travel giving intelligent description of mountain regions, guide ooks and photographs will be of value as suggestions to the director of the observatory...
...Williams's management has arranged a Southern trip for the nine...
...beginning of Babylonian art can be traced to the earliest historical period of Babylon, about 4000 B. C. From that period on we possess inscriptions for nearly every century from colossal temples and statues. Northern Babylonia was the first art centre, but in the third milennium Ur, in Southern Babylonia became the centre. There came a third period when the North was again the seat of artisti life, which gradually declined in vigor up to the capture of Babylon by the Assyrians. There was again a short revival during the hundred years when Babylon freed herself from the Assyrian yoke...