Six lions, two tigers, two cougars, an Indian leopard, a male buffalo, a rhinoceros named Toodles, an elephant named Nancy, an agouti, a coati-mundi and some 300 other kinds of beast, bird & fish used to be on view in Coalman George Fulmer Getz’s zoo at Holland, Mich. This week a larger public may look at them when with grunts, growls, roars, squeals and speeches the Chicago Zoological Society opens its new, 133-acre zoo at Brookfield, 15 mi. Read More...
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for two ghastly bombings launched on June 25 in Abuja and Lagos.
According to Vanguard, this is contained in a new video seen by AFP this Sunday morning.
Blast in "filthy Abuja" (as referred to in the video by Shekau) occurred at the overcrowded Emba Plaza located in the country capital and claimed at least 21 lives. The bomb was planted in a car, which indicated the explosion was organized as an intentional act. Read More...
TIME
November 1, 1948 12:00 AM GMT-5
Some years ago Massachusetts went through one of its periodic tizzies over whether schoolmarms should be allowed to keep their jobs after getting married. Miss Mildred Helen McAfee, president of Wellesley College, was for treating each case on its merits. Said she: “Some jobs and some people can take on matrimony, and some cannot.” Last week, after three years of trying to combine her job and matrimony, pert “Miss Mac” decided to leave Wellesley and join her husband, the Rev. Read More...