Word: madagascar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...envelope or package wrapper to which stamps are affixed. Mr. Hind's Mauritius cover, bearing a tuppenny and a one-penny Mauritius stamp, is considered philately's most valuable item, worth $50,000 at least. Mauritius is a knobby little island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, once (1598-1710) a Dutch colony, once (1715-1814) a French colony, ever since a British possession...
...Rats are merely large mice. There are about 200 species widespread on every continent including Australia. But Madagascar has no native mice. Amateurs distinguish a mouse with 210 or more scales on its tail as a rat. Most mice have 180 scales. Rats follow the migrations...
...related radium, polonium and lead are refined, are at Katanga, Belgian Congo. Those mines have far outdistanced the Jackinov mines in Czechoslovakia where Becquerel and the Curies got their first pitchblende supplies. Other, but at present little used, sources of radium are autunite deposits in Portugal, betafite deposits in Madagascar, carnotite deposits in Colorado and Australia. These sources might be worked intensively if the British M. P.'s asseverations are true, that Belgium can easily produce 30 grams (slightly more than one ounce avoirdupois) of radium yearly instead of the 20 grams it has been producing in recent years...
Neither here nor abroad were there any pandemic outbreaks of disease last year, and in no country with a modern public health organization did pestilences spread. India continues to harbor bubonic plague, as do French Indo-China, China, Algeria, Madagascar, Nigeria, Siam, Argentina, Ecuador, South Africa, Greece, Russia. Two people in California, however, caught bubonic plague last year-from ground squirrels...
Three Whistling Vipers, a Madagascar moon-faced monkey, a Mandalayan singing lizard-members of an immigrating menagerie-arrived in Manhattan on the Hamburg, as did Novelist Sinclair Lewis and his wife, the former Miss Dorothy Thompson, famed newspaper correspondent...