Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after Italy had successfully upheld against the Turk the annexation oi its North African Province of Tripoli, Signor de Martino was transferred to the Sublime Porte (Constantinople), where he remained until Italy joined the War, in 1915, on the side of the Entente Powers...
...career as an artist, author, soldier, and explorer is colored with experiences all over the globe. In Tripoli harbor, he discovered the wreck of the United States frigate Philadelphia, where it had been sunk a century before by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur of the American Navy. In South America, in 1907 he made extensive explorations, and collected valuable material which was afterward presented to the American Museum of Natural History, and the Peabody Museum of the University. In 1912, Colonel Furlong turned his attention to the Western part of this country and won the world's rough-riding championship by riding...
...Tripoli. In 1911, a quarrel broke out between Turkey and Italy. The latter established an army in Tripoli (a country nearly twice the size of Texas), at that time a Turkish vilayet?and issued a decree annexing it. War continued until 1912, when the Treaty of Ouchy was signed, granting Italy sovereignty over the country...
Last week, came the news that Colonel Mezzetti had captured the important position of Sirte, thus completing "the process of reestablishing Italian authority over the whole seaboard of Tripoli" and reaffirming "the complete sovereignty over those regions which is Italy's right and duty...
...lived a life of remarkable activity, not only in the western section of the United States, but in all parts of the world. It was in 1904, while exploring the northern part of Africa, that Mr. Furlong discovered the wreck of the United States frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor, where it had been since it was sunk by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur of the American Navy just one hundred years before...