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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creature thus celebrated was a 60-ft. plant-feeding dinosaur, tentatively named Atlantosaurus montanus, discovered in Colorado. The verses were composed by an author-traveler named Frank Cowan of Greensburg, Pa., published in Vol. III, No. 1, of Ward's Natural Science Bulletin, dated Jan. 1, 1884. The same issue contained a sketch of a brontosaurus, a facetiously polysyllabic and mildly risque poem about a mermaid and an octopus, articles on the musk ox and the flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human...
...Vol. 1 of this work, which was written by Hitler during his imprisonment from November, 1923, to December, 1924, in the fortress of Landsberg, following his unsuccessful attempt to take over the Government of Bavaria, was published on July 18, 1925, in an edition of 10,000 copies which was completely sold out in advance of publication. Vol. II was published on December 10, 1926 (postdated 1927) in an edition of only 8,000 copies, in a binding uniform with the second (revised) edition of Vol. 1, which had already been issued in January of the same year...
...first edition of Vol. 1 contains many passages which were later suppressed, among these being the widely-publicized statement that the original type of man was blond and that other races were the results of combinations with subhuman races, a thesis promptly refuted by many noted anthropologists...
...Vol. 1, No. 1, Artist-Publisher Mitchell drew the first Life nameplate with its mascot cupids, later contributed the famed masthead of a knight leveling his lance at the posterior of a fleeing devil...
...Greatest Race." Finns regularly win Olympic races at 3,000 metres or more. Last week three solemn Finns named Vol-mari Iso-Hollo, Gunnar Hoeckert and IImari Salminen won their specialties, the 3,000-metre steeplechase, the 5,000 and the 10,000-metre runs. With U. S. victories in the sprints and intermediate runs, outside competition centred, as usual, on the 1,500-metre race. Among 39 entrants, eight were outstanding. New Zealand had Jack Lovelock, onetime world-record miler. England had Stanley Wooderson, who had beaten Lovelock three consecutive times this year. Italy had Luigi Beccali, winner...