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"I want to hear the names of the subscribers and their amounts read out," put in Brother Pierce. When this was done, it became apparent that much more than half of the entire amount had been offered by two men. Levi Gorringe's $450 and Erastus Winch's $425 left only $985 to be divided up among some seventy or eighty other members of the congregation.
Since 1912, in spite of the immense cost and the difficulty of obtaining labour, the following has been done: Casablanca. A jetty 1900 metres long has been planned: 824 metres finished December, 1917. Small jetty begun 1916, finished 1917 length 330 metres. Quays 747 metres long already finished. 16 steam-cranes working. Warehouses and depots covering 41,985 square metres completed. Rabat.
He called it Greenland because, he said, men would be more easily persuaded to go there if the land had a good name. This was probably in the year 985. DISCOVERY OF VINLAND. Eric had a son, called Leif Ericson, or Leif the Lucky, who visited Norway and was well received at the court of King Olaf.
No longer is preserved here the miraculous crucifix which, standing in a little chapel in the wood on this spot, bestowed blessing and pardon by bending towards him upon S. Giovanni Gualberto, the founder of the Vallombrosan order. The crucifix is now in S. Trinita. The saint was born in 985 of noble stock and assumed naturally the splendour and arrogance of his kind.
The seafaring population of the coast, of every rank and station, was animated by the same ready spirit; and the whole number of seamen who came forward to man the English fleet was 17,472. The number of the ships that were collected was 191; and the total amount of their tonnage 31,985.
There Thorliek lived for a while, as has been told before. Thorliek begat a son of his wife. The boy was sprinkled with water and called Bolli. He was at an early age a very promising man. The Death of Hoskuld, A.D. 985
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