1855: Premiere of Franz Listz’s symphonic poem “Prometheus”. 1859: Birth of French philosopher Henri Bergson. 1860: The Second Opium War ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the ...

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Noah Fields Drake returned to Fayetteville late in the summer of 1912, bringing his wife, Mary, and two young daughters, Doris and Vera. A native of Summers, 20 miles to the west, he had attended ...

"I like geology better than war even when other people do the fighting," Noah Fields Drake wrote to John Casper Branner ...

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As a big-time race-track and gambling operator, he made enough to build himself a skyscraper in Tientsin, and when the Communists took over, he was tough enough to endure 2½ years in a Red jail ...

Recently I wrote that Drake began teaching at Imperial Pei Yang University on March 17, 1898; that was actually the date of his arrival in Tientsin. "About the only part of the voyage that I liked ...

Gambling that the Japanese guards could not read German, Weinbach’s mother claimed that their invitations to a Jewish social club in Tientsin, China were actually entry visas. The guards believed her.

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The soldiers in this photo, which dates back to around 1911, are stationed in the British concession in the Chinese city of Tientsin (modern-day Tianjin). Check out these 8 places you’d never ...