Word: magellans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terres trial abode is unfolded in the 338 pages of A History of Exploration, by Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, him self a distinguished traveler-soldier. The story lingers admiringly with such illustrious voyageurs as Leif the Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan-tsang, the studious, well born Buddhist monk who, fortified by a dream, passed beyond the Great Wall in 629 A. D., set out across the grim Gobi...
...hazy days of the Chinese empire, centuries before Magellan reached the Orient, the Igorots of Benguet mined gold in the Philippine hills. The Spaniards snatched off their gold earrings and beat them into crucifixes. Spanish-American War adventurers, trekking inland, were greeted by natives crying "Ado Balatoc Bantay!" ("Lots of gold in the mountains.") But geological disturbances, dense vegetation, frequent droughts and lack of modern machinery kept the infant industry of the Philippines from rapid development. Not until last year did Philippine business men really begin to discover how much balatoc there was in the bantay and what...
...banking or finance but with cowpunching. Partner John Batterson Stetson Jr. of Philadelphia's Stetson & Blackman is the son of the founder of John B. Stetson Co., whose hats were (and still are) as much a fixture of the cow country from Athabasca Landing to the Strait of Magellan as the cows themselves...
...Guam, after one heroic repulse, drives the U. S. from the western Pacific. A daring Japanese submarine bombards the U. S. coast. Los Angeles and San Francisco are peppered from the sky. Rounding the Horn, the U. S. Scouting force encounters two enemy submarines in the Straits of Magellan, losing two light vessels...
...Hovey Grosvenor of the National Geographic Society: "No explorer ever before has received such a national tribute from school children as you have enabled our young people to present to Admiral Byrd. . . . His name will ever live as the greatest pioneer navigator of the air, as does that of Magellan as the greatest pioneer navigator of the farthermost seas...