DO YOU KNOW
What is the mean iffeight of the earth's land?
Who was called the "Protestant Pope?"
What was the Lake of Idleness? Who drank of itf
When wag Judas "King of the Jews?" The following are the answers to questions:—
The mean height of the earth's I»t.h u estimated at 2440 ft.
Clement XIV., by reason of his wki* sympathies and toleration of diverging views, hag been called the "Protestant Pope."
The 0 Lake of Idleness was a Lethean pool which imparted lassitude to tha drinker.
The Bed Cross Knight drank of it and was captured by Orgoglio in result (Spenser's "Faerie Queene"). Judas Hyrcanus Aristobolus, following the Roman treatv, styled himself "King of the Jews/' c. 107 B.C.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1928, Page 11
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