The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 2Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest William H. Wise & Company, 1937 |
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... century is indicated by a few striking figures . In the year 1824 the total number of persons admitted into America from all countries was exactly 7,912 . A quarter of a century later , in 1849 , the number had risen to 297,024 . By ...
... century is indicated by a few striking figures . In the year 1824 the total number of persons admitted into America from all countries was exactly 7,912 . A quarter of a century later , in 1849 , the number had risen to 297,024 . By ...
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... centuries of age . The people were emerging from barbarism in the second century of the Christian era , but nothing authentic is known of Japan until the fifth century , when the Mikados were govern- ing all the country except a strip ...
... centuries of age . The people were emerging from barbarism in the second century of the Christian era , but nothing authentic is known of Japan until the fifth century , when the Mikados were govern- ing all the country except a strip ...
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... century B.C. , Greece occupied not only the area of her present state , continental and insular , but all the western coast of Asia Minor ; Greek colonies stretched over all the most important parts of Sicily and South Italy , the South ...
... century B.C. , Greece occupied not only the area of her present state , continental and insular , but all the western coast of Asia Minor ; Greek colonies stretched over all the most important parts of Sicily and South Italy , the South ...
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INDIA Concluded | 501 |
MALAYA BORNEO AND HONG KONG | 527 |
AUSTRALIA | 531 |
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