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...show of strength, invited the public (in newspaper ads) to come to an initiation party. About 2,000 responded, clambered to the treeless, rock-strewn peak at night. They saw some 700 men wearing white, hooded sheets, and one who wore a rich green robe. When the Grand Dragon took off his mask he was, as everybody well knew, Dr. Samuel Green, a middleaged, small-mustached Atlanta physician...
...initiates-about 500 men and a few women-knelt before the Grand Dragon, and were thus granted (at $10 a head) the right to wear sheets and masks. Cried Grand Dragon Green: "We are revived...
...Like a shy waterfowl who has hatched out a dragon's egg, I find that I have written a 'best-seller.' 'Unseasonably,' because the time has passed when the event brings any substantial reward. In a civilized age this unexpected moment of popularity would have endowed me with a competency for life. ... As it is, the politicians confiscate my earnings and I am left with the correspondence...
Peking Man-Sinanthropus pekinensis-was the paleontological sensation of the 1920s. To Paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, Peking Man "ranks as the most important discovery in the whole history of human evolution." His first traces-two teeth-were found in 1921 in a "dragon-bone" cave* at Choukoutien, 40 miles southwest of Peking. Digging continued through 1941 under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. High point was the discovery of the first skull in 1929. Geological data indicated that Peking Man lived over 500,000 years ago, which would make him older than the Piltdown and Neanderthal Man and possibly...
...many Chinese, all fossils are "dragon bones." Along with tiger claws, bat dung and blood from a brigand's heart, fossils used to be powdered, dissolved in acid and used as a specific for every indisposition, from dysentery to bullet wounds...