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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This afternoon a foreign plane of a type unknown in Germany appeared over Berlin and dropped handbills abusing the German Government. . . . This occurrence illuminates the strikingly untenable position that Germany is now in. Aircraft of a type heretofore not seen in Germany can unimpededly fly over German government buildings and drop handbills today-tomorrow, perhaps gas or explosive bombs carrying death and destruction...
...decades have Orchid-hunters Lager & Hurrell scrabbled through the jungles looking for orchids for tycoons' hothouses. Generation ago they made two astounding strikes. High up in the branches of a South American tree, John Emil Lager found a gold powdered red Masdevallia orchid unknown to science. Five hundred miles away he found a few other specimens. The entire shipment got sidetracked in a coastal warehouse, dried out, died. None was ever found again (TIME, April...
...leaves throughout southern Europe. The insects are killed in a vapor of hot vinegar, dried, and ground for pigment. It takes 10 to 12 lb. of kermes to produce as red a color as one pound of cochineal. The Louvre lady's lips are of cochineal, unknown in Europe before Cortes brought it back in 1523, unknown in Italy for 20 years more. Leonardo da Vinci died...
...mind when Professor Lloyd Hiram Ziegler of Albany Medical College discoursed on "hysterical fugue." During an attack of fugue, explained Professor Ziegler, "the patient leaves his home and makes an excursion or journey justified by no reasonable motive. The attack ended, the subject unexpectedly finds himself on an unknown road or in a strange town," as Col. Robins did in Whittier, N. C. A victim does not deliberately pretend or lie about his misadventures. They may be for him an unconscious effort to escape some unpleasant personal problem. Many of such runaways in early life walked and talked in their...
...Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitions. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto...