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  2. FISHING in the TROPICS

    Born of necessity, fishing is one of the most ancient of human activities. Today's fish-hooks evolved from "Gorges," almost straight pieces of flint of Neolithic times. A Greek wrote the world's first angling treatise more than 2100 years ago. Yet for skill, guile and ingenuity none can match the native. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,116 words
  3. The Chiel's Film Review

    There is in Hollywood a young man named Stanley Kramer who has adopted a self-appointed mission to reform the screen. He proclaims, in effect, that the film industry is dying on its feet because Hollywood sticks to its primitive and out-moded ideas of entertainment. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,235 words
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    Representation of a trireme, from a drawing in the Science Museum, London. Whether the oars were arranged in three banks as shown here is very controversial. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 55 words
  6. SCHOOL SECTION:

    In the time of Homer, about three thousand years ago, there was no such thing as money anywhere in the world, unless cowrie shells were being used as a medium of exchange as early as that. There is little doubt that metal coins were evolved independently in the Near East, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,470 words
  7. "QUINQUIREME of NlNEVEH"

    One of the best known poems in our language is Masefield's Cargoes. It is a masterpiece of poetic compression, expanding in the imagination of the reader to a thrilling degree. Yet few who admire that striking first line, "Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir," ...

    Article : 817 words
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