The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 54National Geographic Society, 1929 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 410
... build- ing presents an interesting experiment in public - building financing by popular sub- scription ; each of the innumerable small plates bears the engraved name of a donor of 25 kroner ( $ 6 ) ! The Hall , in contrast to the ...
... build- ing presents an interesting experiment in public - building financing by popular sub- scription ; each of the innumerable small plates bears the engraved name of a donor of 25 kroner ( $ 6 ) ! The Hall , in contrast to the ...
Page 577
... building temples to insure her blessings in the next world . A three - storied building , with drum and bell- tower , it houses a gilded clay Buddha 40 feet high that extends from floor to ceil- ing . The idol is probably 250 years old ...
... building temples to insure her blessings in the next world . A three - storied building , with drum and bell- tower , it houses a gilded clay Buddha 40 feet high that extends from floor to ceil- ing . The idol is probably 250 years old ...
Page 612
... building housing the great clay Buddha ( see page 580 ) . Twenty feet above the mob two wires had been stretched across the courtyard from side to side , and two others reached from the chanting hall to our building . Where these wires ...
... building housing the great clay Buddha ( see page 580 ) . Twenty feet above the mob two wires had been stretched across the courtyard from side to side , and two others reached from the chanting hall to our building . Where these wires ...
Contents
The Traditional Island Birthplace of Venus is One of the Least | 1 |
Venice Home City of Marco Polo 8 illustrations 559 | 353 |
Womans Winter on Spitsbergen A BV MARTHA PHILLIPS GILSON 227 | 505 |
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