Silver Jubilee to mark King George V accession
London plans a silver jubilee year in 1935 to honor King George V on the twenty fifth anniversary of his accession. May 6 will be a national holiday with thanksgiving in St Paul’s, a royal procession, Buckingham Palace dinner, and a state ball. Jubilee services will be held across the empire with local observances in colonies and dominions.
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London
George
England
Scotland
Victoria
Prince
St. Paul's Cathedral
Queen Mary
Dominions
Buckingham Palace
Empire
Glass school in Amsterdam inspires open air classrooms
Amsterdam's semi open air glass school, used for about three years, sparks the Dutch open air movement. The modern ferro concrete and glass design includes five walls of glass, roof loggias, and sheltered classrooms for rainy days, with pupils facing a working wall to minimize distractions.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Germany's Neuwerk Lighthouse Said To Be 635 Years Old
Researchers declare the Neuwerk Island lighthouse near Heligoland is Germanys oldest at about 635 years. The main tower rises to 190 feet from a nine foot thick base with a 1299 erection date and 21 reflectors in the lighting system. A woodfire once burned atop to guide ships. Napoleons troops failed to destroy it. Canada ranks seventh among trading nations.
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Neuwerk Island
Heligoland
Germany
New York
Hamburg
Napoleon
Not A Modern Study Egyptians Had Good Working Knowledge
An ancient Egyptian papyrus dating to about 1700 B.C. demonstrates advanced elementary arithmetic. It shows additions and multiplications as primary operations, outlines simple equations, and includes area calculations and the transformation of a circle into a square.
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Egypt
Green brakeman buys two dummies after cargo halt
A green brakeman on his first paid trip attempted to lift two cars and couple after a siding delay. Drawbars stuck preventing air connection. Engineer advised returning to fetch a dummy. After 20 minutes the crew returned with two dummies and asked which one to use.
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O.K
Cn.r. Magazine
Brains Will Solve Problems Says U G Limited Leader
President R S Law of the United Grain Growers Limited told Country Life at the Alberta Marketing Conference in Olds that brains in the world can solve the economic problem. He cited skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan as a symbol of progress and urged optimism.
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R. S. Law
United Grain Growers Limited
Canadian Prairies
City of
New York
Lower Manhattan
Mr. Law
Alberta
Olds
Spider Weaving Stocking Trap Lures Prey With Silk
The Atypus spider builds a burrow shaped like a stocking with a silk lining. She seals a longer leg outside the nest and uses hidden threads to snare caterpillars and insects. Vibrating threads trigger the spider to ambush prey.
Not Unlucky For Him Patrolman Leo Muldowney
North Adams Massachusetts officer Leo J Muldowney foregoes superstition as his name, birth date, years on force and badge carry the number 13 13 13 413. His signal call number is also 13 and his locker and gear bear the digits.
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Leo J. Muldowney
North Adams
Mass
German Rumpler airliner shatters era with 1500 passenger flying ship
The Rumpler design features a double hull craft with 1500 passengers and freight, crew quarters in the fuselage, passenger cabins in the wings, garages for cars and an auxiliary plane, six motors front and rear, promenades in the wings, and a berlin to new york 17 hour flight plan. The article notes the concept echoes Jules Verne and contrasts past sail ocean liners with modern aviation progress.
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Rumpler Company
Berlin
New York
St. Thomas Times- Journal
King Leads Birds To Escape Through Unified Flight
A timeless story recalls birds disobeying a king and venturing to fields, nets trapping them until the monarch signals a coordinated rise that lifts the net. The tale ends with birds learning to depart together each dawn to avoid farmer danger.
Friendship Between Man and Animals Across Continents
Smithsonian figures show original human animal bonds were friendships not weapons. Edenlike peace zones persist in isolated forests as Dr. Walter Hough notes in Tibet and Alaska. Carl Akeley guided Martin Johnson into Africa where Lions welcomed them, while fear taught men to fear. Jack London recalls a pact between man and dog.
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Smithsonian Institution
Walter Hough
Tibet
Alaska
Carl Akeley
Martin Johnson
Africa
Jack London
Christian Science Monitor
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