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Mathematics and Science: Euclid, Nicomachus, Aristarchus, Apollonius, Ptolemy, Archimedes, Aristoxenus, Strabo, Leonardo, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Kepler, Harvey, Gilbert, Newton, Leibnitz, Boyle...
...stable of steeplechasers, decided to open a race track of his own. Last week the new track, Delaware's first since the State Legislature legalized betting in 1935,* opened. In the feature race of opening day, some 20,000 spectators saw Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin's Strabo nose out John Hay Whitney's Flying Scott...
...Russia. Archeologists have long known the ruins of New Chersonese, an old Greek settlement, near the modern Crimean city of Sevastopol. But they had never found the more ancient site of Old Chersonese which Strabo, famed Greek geographer, described. Two years ago Professor Markevitch, Crimean archeologist, told the Moscow Archeological Society to stop scratching in the earth, to look under the sea for Old Chersonese. Fishermen had told him of a wonderful submarine city off the coast of Sevastopol. Russian scientists set to work soon afterward with divers and giant searchlights, found Old Chersonese 210 ft. offshore. The city stretches...
...STRABO V. CLAGGETT Boston, Mass...
...interesting feature of the expedition's work has been in the light it has thrown on references to Queen Candace in the New Testament (Acts VIII, 27) and in the works of Pliny and Strabo. These speak of the Queen Candace as if she were the ruler of Ethiopia...