Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the tombs of the great are gone the isolation of yesterday. The gentlemen of science have now usurped the avocation of Jerry Cruncher and his friends. Better it is for a man to die unknown, unpraised, than to risk perpetuity in a museum of cadavers. Modern research, ill content with probing the affairs of life, probes death. So this boy who once ruled Egypt must stand inspection before a maudlin world, while from far and near come novelty seekers aspiring to gaze for a moment at the death masque of the Pharaoh. Shavian and eternal, the child king suffers...
...origin of the name is unknown. Traditionally it dates from "a period of despair" whose very cause is forgotten, during which the inhabitants changed the name of their hamlet to a prayer for its deliverance...
Observers recalled that Germany has no "unknown soldier"; remarked that it is apparently in-tended to raise up the shade of Baron von Richthofen as a titanic figure epitomizing German War-heroism...
There are hundreds of tall, gracefully shaped stone columns bearing carved caps, each weighing nearly a ton, and arranged in long colonnades and circles. The purpose of the great edifices of which these were a part is so far unknown, nor has it been possible as yet to determine the date of their construction or the race of their builders...
...fossils were so thick they almost interlaced." Paleontologist Andrews shares the view of many a scientist that Mid-Asia was the birthplace and distribution centre of mammalia. His chief finds: many more fossil dinosaur eggs (two years ago he fetched several dozen); several baluchitherium (early rhinoceros) skulls; an unknown two-horned fossil, seemingly a primitive giraffe; some marsupial (pouched) types; and traces of a human civilization that went from Europe into Asia...