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(1) Who is this?
(2) “All progress is based upon a 5 universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income/' was said by whom? (3) How does America express a billion in figures, and how England? (4) When and by whom was the world first circumnavigated? Answers to yesterday’s questions: —(1) Ethel Barrymore, the female member of the famous American acting family. John and Lionel are brothers. (2) “But at my back I always hear ’ ’ etc. is from Andrew Marvell’s “To his Coy Mistress.” (3) The Prince of Wales’s crest (properly, the badge of the heir apparent) is a plume of three ostrich feathers and the motto is “Ich Dien” (I serve). (4 The Pink and White Terraces were destroyed on January 10, 1886.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 202, 10 August 1927, Page 4
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172Do You Know ? Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 202, 10 August 1927, Page 4
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