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...iron-using people who lived approximately 2,500 years ago. At Krtenov a still more ancient cemetery of the bronze age, perhaps 3,500 years old, consisting of an enormous number of large burial mounds, was partly explored, and some pottery and bronzes recovered. Finally, at Chrastany a settlement was found of prehistoric people, some of whom lived there as much as 5,000 years ago, long before the fortress of Homolka itself was occupied...
...prompt adoption of this idea will immediately stop all wrangling; avoid party splits; and insure final settlement in the precise way the majority wants. Such a decision should please every loyal American...
...Such fine and pungent talk was to be had almost any evening in the inn at Marden Fee, and it is the chorus of talk, not the incidental pastoral melodrama you will remember from Author Bullett's book. The story opens in prehistoric England, in the "squat" (hut-settlement) of Koor. Koor, hitherto invincible patriarch, is aging, and the young hunters are beginning to mutter to each other. Soon the inevitable happens. The tale suddenly skips to 1750; Koor's squat is now the drowsy village of Marden Fee, its people outwardly a placid yokelry. But in many...
...primary task of modern diplomacy is the maintenance of peace. Since the World War, the attention of the Foreign Offices of the world has shifted from the idea of checks and balances, of military alliances and understandings, to projects and methods for the peaceful settlement of disputes by arbitration and by conciliation, to the reduction and limitation of armaments, by agreement among nations, and to a solemn pledge not to resort to war as an instrument of national policy. I have been fortunate enough in my assignments as Charge d'Affaires in Switzerland and as Chief of the Western European...
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) came of a good New Jersey family. His father acquired some land on Lake Otsego, N. Y., started a settlement there which became Cooperstown. James Fenimore had all the advantages a squire's son could hope to have. He went to Yale at 13, was expelled for some "obscure"' cause. At 17 he shipped as a foremast hand in a Down Easter, next year got a commission in the Navy. But he saw no service in the War of 1812, for by then he had met and married Susan De Lancey...