Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...then went south, and, after some railroad work in Georgia, surveyed the line from Talahassee, Fla., to the east coast during the Seminole war. He was later called to Boston and given charge of building the Cochituate water works. His later years were passed in travel through Egypt with Ralph Waldo Emerson and he finally settled in Boston. A month before his death Mr. Whitwell visited Quebee and Cape Breton, and returned a short time ago to Hancock, where he died...
...Massachusetts, 293; Boston, 487; Michigan, 4; Nebraska, 2; Minnesota, 4; Missouri, 7; Montana, 1; New Hampshire, 10; New Jersey, 12; New York, 203; Ohio, 25; Oregon, 3; Pennsylvania, 31; Rhode Island, 6; South Carolina, 1; South Dakota, 1; Tennessee, 2; Utah, 1; Washington, 1; Wisconsin, 6; France, 1; and Egypt...
...Does the Greek Doric Order find its origin in Egypt...
...poems of Bacchylides, which were discovered in Egypt in January, 1897, have just been published by the British Museum. Bacchylides, who is thus brought to our notice, was a contemporary and rival of Pindar and was considered by the Alexandrian critics as one of the nine greatest Greek lyric poets. Unfortunately his writings have been completely lost for fourteen hundred years and our knowledge of him has been confined to a few fragments quoted by other writers. By the discovery of this papyrus, however, which dates from 50 B. C., twenty poems of 1070 lines have been restored...
...addition to buildings, a botanic garden, terrestrial and aquatic, has been established which has proved of great value in making practical demonstrations of plant life. Explorations under the direction of the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology have been made in South America, Florida, Yucatan, Babylonia, Honduras, Corea, Guatemala and Egypt, and a university museum to cost $300,000 is under...