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...tattered bug on a rusty pin? Or a frowsy bird skin? A pickled fish? Because these are the type specimens—the original catches from which the species was first scientifically described and defined. Like the platinum-iridium bar in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Sèvres on which the meter is engraved, each specimen is the standard against which other members of the species and new varieties are measured...
...Versailles. There she gave her most famous party, the Bal Blanc, arranged by Ward McAllister, attended by the 400, and costing Mr. Oelrichs $30,000. Into Rosecliff she packed what Henry James called the "loot" of Europe: Gobelin tapestries, cloisonné vases, Renaissance statuary, Jacobean furniture, Sèvres china, paintings, libraries, silver sets, visiting aristocrats. In 1939, 13 years after she died, the Oelrichs family closed the house. Last week house and furnishings were auctioned...
...Office kept mum, Italian officials privately protested that "a situation would be created equally serious as Germany's violation of the Locarno Pact." Except from Italy's point of view, this was hardly true. The original peace treaty with Turkey was the ignominious Treaty of Sévres which stripped Turkey and partitioned it into French and Italian "spheres of influence." Outraged Turks rose behind the "Grey Wolf" and proceeded to chase the invading Greek armies into the Aegean Sea. At Lausanne the Turks practically dictated their own terms, being far more ready to resume fighting than were...
...nine Armenians charged with the Archbishop's murder. All of the defendants admitted that they were members of Tashnag, ultra-nationalist Armenian society which wants to throw off Soviet rule, re-establish the independent Armenian Republic which existed for four months in 1920 after the treaty of Sèvres had freed the land from Turkish tyranny. Witnesses testified that the pro-Soviet Archbishop was as good as dead when, on Armenian Day at Chicago's Century of Progress last summer, he refused to speak until an Armenian Republic flag had been removed from the stand. Forty-two witnesses testified...
...Gift From Ten glossy-brown Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Alaskan sealskins Hoover, unofficially* 45 pieces of Sévres President Doumergue China of France, officially Diamond necklace with City of Paris sapphire clasp pendant and sapphire clasp Four blooded Lippizifner horses Government of Hungary