Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will leave many footprints in the sands of time-many of them crisscrossing, all deeply etched. But I believe the perspective of time will underscore this year as the year of man's first venture into space, as the start of a new era of voyaging into the unknown...
...exact population of China is unknown. In 1948, during the civil war, the Nationalist government estimated, on the basis of a partial census, that there were 460 million mainland Chinese. Today the Nationalists on Formosa insist that mainland population has dropped to 450 million. Nationalist Historian Hu Shih, under a complex and interpretive system, insists that there are only 300 million. In 1953 the Chinese Communists held a nationwide census and came up with a figure of 582.6 million, and now estimate a population of 670-680 million. The latest figures published by the U.S. Census Bureau are restricted...
Nkrumah's chagrin was complete moments later as he escorted the royal visitors through the hospital. Unknown to Osagyefo, a patient (for a glandular disorder) in one of the wards was seven-year-old Kwame Appiah, son of recently jailed Nkrumah foe, Joe Appiah, and his wife Peggy, daughter of Britain's late Sir Stafford Cripps. Unaware of the boy's identity, the Queen greeted him perfunctorily, then moved on. But prominently displayed on the child's bedside table was a photograph of his father and grandmother, Lady Cripps. Suddenly realizing who the woman...
Frans Hals's Portrait of a Cavalier, which, unknown to the art world, had been residing for more than 100 years in the collection of a Major Warde-Aldam, went for $509,600. This year a new record for Goya was set with the sale of his hapless Duke of Wellington, which thereupon went to London's National Gallery and was almost immediately stolen. The Montreal collector, L. V. Randall, sold his master drawings for $186,400. Among them was a saint by Hugo van der Goes that brought an astonishing $84,000, making it the most expensive...
...best microtechniques, Dr. Schildknecht next analyzed the fluid and found to his amazement that it was about 10% hydroquinone and toluhydroquinone (acrid compounds related to carbolic acid) and 23% hydrogen peroxide. When mixed in a test tube these chemicals reacted spontaneously, giving off copious gas, but something still unknown keeps them from reacting as long as they lie undisturbed in the beetle's ammunition sacs...