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 ...

Herbert Hoover went on to become the 31st President of the United States. With the Great Humanitarian as Chief Executive prosperity seemed to be on the horizon in America.

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 ...

The Hoovers (future president Herbert and his wife, Lou) were still in Tientsin but likely to go to Japan or London, Drake reported to Branner. The Imperial Pei Yang University had no prospect of ...

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