Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Former Ambassador John W. Davis presided at the meeting, and declared that the most real tribute to the services of the Volunteers came from the unknown men and women who could say "We were hungry and you fed us; thirsty and you gave us to drink; naked and you clothed us; sick and in prison and you visited us." President Harding, who was prevented from speaking by pressure of official business, wired: "There are few parallels in history where husband and wife have jointly and severally made such a notable contribution to human uplift...
While archaeologists and paleontologists are uncovering extinct monsters and ancient races, a corresponding outbreak of interest in the natural history of existing animals is in progress. Numerous expeditions are daily finding rare or previously unknown species. Many of these expeditions are supported by the American Museum of Natural History...
...mounted in a special Australian hall. It contains skins and skeletons of climbing kangaroos, flying phalangers, bandicoots, two very rare musk kangaroos, wombats, Tasmanian devils, spotted dasyures and other exotic beasts. The Whitney South Sea Expedition, under Rollo H. Beck, has found specimens of a number of birds either unknown or long thought extinct, including Peale's petrel, the fruit pigeon of Rapa, red-tailed tropic bird, shearwater and others. Every island group in Polynesia has its own species of warbler, with amazing variability...
Nudes are conspicuously few, as are war-paintings. Of the latter, only Sir William Orpen's allegorical canvas to the unknown warrior is notable...
...Mitchell-Hedges, British explorer, submitted proofs to the British Museum that he had found, also in Central America, a hitherto unknown stock which had never before seen a white man and has apparently made no cultural progress for several thousand years...