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Johnson Expedition. Besides the Amundsen rescue parties, the schooner Zodiac, 130-foot yacht of Johnson & Johnson (Robert W. and J. Steward), manufacturers of surgical supplies at New Brunswick, N. J., was soon to nose into the north with both Johnson brothers aboard. Their destination was to be Newfoundland, where they would search the ice-bitten shores for traces of the 40-ft. sloop Leif Ericsson which sailed out of Reykjavik, Iceland, last August under an amateut Norwegian skipper with a party of artists to "follow the trail of the Vikings" to Nova Scotia. Last winter, the U. S. cruiser Trenton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Arctic | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...conveniently at the North Star just as it was indubitably intended to do when first built thirty thousand years ago when the earth was at the same point in its processional cycle. As for the animals of the Ark, they refer to the symbolic or spiritual animals of the Zodiac--for of course it is only to be expected that such a powerful race intellectually would select precisely a Bull, a Crab, a Goat, a Water-Bearer, etc., from all the possible things there were to choose from.-- "The animals went in two by two"; fortunately there are twelve signs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD NOAH'S STONE BARGE | 6/22/1922 | See Source »

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