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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...origin of the present calendar year was in 46 B.C. when Julius Caesar ordered the solar Julian Calendar to supersede the old lunar one. in this calendar every other month had 31 days, the rest 30, except February which had 29 except in leap year when it had 30. In 8 B.C. Emperor Augustus wished his month to have 31 days instead of 30, snatched the extra day from February. By 1582 the inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days...
...Recent statistic: In the U. S., one tub to every 20 persons; one automobile to every seven...
...heavy, hairy, manlike creature, with low brows and tearing teeth, slouched one half million years ago, into a limestone cave 30 miles from what is now Peiping (Peking), China. He died. Another one lumbered in and naturally ate the corpse, probably with some shrubbery for condiment. The dead head presumably was especially tasty, for the eater, it now seems, tore it from the body, gnawed it and threw it away to disintegrate. The second comer died; a third, a fourth, a succession of ten. The last decayed with his head in place...
...bodies and their limbs, all fossilized, scientific diggers recently dug up, a Peiping despatch reported last week. Actual finder was Pei Wenchung, Chinese archeologist, in the party of Dr. Davidson Black, Canadian paleontologist. The find is undoubtedly the most important archeological discovery of the year. It provides one complete and nine nearly complete skeletons of the "Peking man," pithecanthropus erectus, whose vestiges heretofore have consisted of but a skull top, a leg bone, a few teeth...
...human fingers and toes in the world (somewhat more than 30 billion) were free electrons and were multiplied by a billion and again by a billion, all those electrons would weigh just about one ounce avoirdupois. And yet one of those almost weightless electrons, a negative charge of electricity, as it shoots from the cathode of an X-ray tube or from the filament of a radio tube engraves its path on metal...