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...Norway knew that the great polar dirigible Norge** ("Norway") would shortly set out to fly over an unexplored area exceeding one-fourth million square miles, the icecap of the world. (See AERONAUTICS.) At the stern of the Norge flies a silk Norwegian flag, the gift of King Haakon and Queen Maud (TIME, April 12, SCIENCE). Within the Norge's gondola are other Norwegian flags of stiffest canvas, securely sewed to stout weighted spikes. According to international convention all that is necessary for Norway to annex legally the unexplored north polar region is for the Norge to fly over it, dropping...
...Sahara, at Hoggar, a band of French and Americans? "Count" Byron Kuhn de Prorok,* Algerian officials, and Trustee W. Bradley Tyrrell of Beloit College (Wis.)?broke into the reputed tomb of Tin Hinan, semi-legendary queen and goddess of the white race of Tuaregs (Berbers). In the crumbling frame of a carved wooden couch lay the six-foot skeleton of a personage, seemingly female, littered with beads, carbuncles, garnets, gold and silver objects, glass balls, with black and yellow designs like eyes. On the arm bones hung massive bracelets?eight on the right, seven on the left?of gold...
Died. Sir Squire Bancroft, 85, "doyen of the English" stage, for 20 years manager of the Prince o' Wales's and Haymarket Theatres, player of over 500 roles, knighted by Queen Victoria; in London, after a lingering illness...
Jack, having butchered seven Spaniards not possessed of gold earrings, splits the eighth with an ax and wrests from his ears the trophy demanded by a pert minx-in-waiting to the Queen, Kate More, "granddaughter of Sir Thomas More...
...FOURTH QUEEN?Isabel Paterson?Boni, Liveright ($2). Strapping Jack Montague?as virginally bashful a youth as ever scuttled galleons for Queen Elizabeth?looms while setting sail with the English fleet to obliterate the Spanish Armada. Authoress Paterson unsqueamishly relates that soon after embryo sailor Jack left port he "retched up his vitals"?a fair sample of the book's teeming archaisms...