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Turning back to a page of Fifteenth Century history, one may read the famed Bull of Pope Alexander VI, whereby "The New World" of the Americas was pontifically divided between the most Catholic sovereigns of Spain and Portugal-the latter getting Brazil. Some three centuries later Napoleon drove John VI out of Portugal, and that monarch fled with his Court to Brazil. When things quieted down in Portugal, His Majesty returned to his beloved Lisbon; but he left behind in the "New World" as Regent, his eldest son, famed as "Dom Pedrc of Brazil." When Brazilians and their Regent presently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: On the Map | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Lect. Hall Mr. Dow, A, B New Lect. Hall Mr. Durand. Conf. group II Memorial Hall Mr. Evans, 4, 14, Conf. group III Harvard 5 Mr. Gideonse, 5, 13, Conf. group IV Harvard 6 Mr. Gratwick. 6. 15. conf. group V Memorial Hall Mr. Jordan, 7, 18, Conf. group VI New Lect. Hall Mr. McDonald, 8, 17, Conf. group VII New Lect. Hall Mr. Parkman, 9, Conf. group VIII Memorial Hall Mr. Perkins, 10, 25, Conf. group IX Geol. Lect.-rm. Mr. Scramuzza. 11, 21, Conf, Group X Geol. Lect.-rm. History 4 New Lect. Hall History 24a Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Midyear Examination Schedule Is Published by Faculty Today | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

...Only at Viña del Mar, famed seaside resort, may one roulette wheel spin with Governmental & Presidential sanction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gamblers | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Readers of the U. S. best seller Bad Girl by Viña Delmar, were intrigued by announcements that the "Season" is now opening at Chile's famed watering place, Vina del Mar. Authoress Delmar's publishers, Harcourt Brace & Co., state that they are informed concerning her as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Perhaps Spanish? | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Fascist "Year VI" ended last week, and the "Year VII" began. This chronology is official. All Italian state papers are now doubly dated, once from the birth of the Saviour and again from the inception of the Fascist Regime?just six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fascist New Year | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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