The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 13, 1937, Page 15

AT /D YOU KNOW TH LITHUANIA DID NOT COUNTRY UNTIL THE 15 CEINTEQWOVEN wiTH 'T*}E oy OF THAT EVENT SHAT OF BIRUTA A VARIATION OF THE Sk QOMANTIC CINDERELL THEME K1{e] OFTEN RE ENACTED IN HISTORY woconr [ FALLING MADLY IN LOVE WITH THE BEAUTIFUL PRIESTESS, THE DUKE CARRIED HERQ OFF TO HIS CASTLE AND MADE HER oULD YOU A wBELIEVE IT wwr: CHARMING ITHOUT i The DEADLY ASP oF EGYPT 15 DEAF BUT WILL SWAY LIKE-A DANCING COBRA IN TIME- WITH CERTAIN RHYTHMIC MOTIONS wcveeneer BiQUTA WAS THE DAUGHTER OF AN HUMBLE FISHERMAN ON THE BaLTIC SHORE WHO FOR HER. STRIKING BEALITY WAS CHOSEN TO SERVE AS A VESTAL VIRGIN IN THE SANCTUARY OF THE PAGAN GODPESS PRAURIME- AT PALANGA. FROM THE 3™ TO THE 15™ CENTURY THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA WAS ONE OF THE GREAT POWERYS OF EASTERN EUROPE, IT5 DOMAINS STRETCHING FROM THE BALTIC ON THE NORTH TO THE BLACK SEA ON THE SOUTH R MIGHTY WARRIOR AND AN ABLE LEADER, DRIVING BACK THE- TEUTONIC KNIGHTS WHO FOR TWO CENTURIES 1 VICTORY AND SAW BIRUTA HAD TRIED TO SPREAD (HRISTIANTY| | FROM THIS UNION A SON, THE- CELEBRATED VYTAUTAS THE GREAT, WAS BORN (1349),UNDER WHOSE RULE LITHUANIA ROSE TO THE ZENITH OF HER POWER. .......00 LU LT DUKE IKESTUTIS OF LITHUANIA, RETURNING FROM A SUCCESSFUL CAMBPAIGN AGAINST THE GERMANYS, ENTERED THE TEMPLE AT PALANGA 7O THANK THE GODDESS FOR HIS UT AT LAST, WHEN HE WAS A VERY OLI? MAN, VYTAUTAS EMBRACED CHRISTIANITY OF HIS OWN ACCOR[Z, AND LITHU- ANIA TOOK HER PLACE AMONG THE CHRISTIAN NATIONS ......... @ = Le Czarevmen Dume ACCIDENTALLY STABBED HIMSELF TO DEATH WHILE PLAYING HIS FAVORITE GAME,"MUMBLY-PEG, Russia, 1501, (B cameruL,Bovs?) @ r=oreiionaL SIN-EATER WAS ONCE A FEATURE OF FUNERAL RITES IN WALES -~ THE SIN-EATER. PARTOOK. OF BREAD AND ALE SET UPON THE COFFIN AND THUS' SYMBOLICALLY TOOK UPON HIMSELF THE SINS OF THE DEPARTED - @ 1onG THE MOST UNIQUE BOAT. INTHE- WORLE? ARE THOSE- USEV BY BOLIVIAN INDIANS ON LAKE- TiTiICACA HIGH UP IN THE ANDEY. DUE TO THE LACK OF TIMBER IN THAT LOFTY REGION, BOTH BOATS AND SAILS ARE MADE OF STRAW 1937. 7« ®@. T Hmaas - WP A 5 e @