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 ...

"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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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 ...