20 Feb 1942
Page 1
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1942
Page
1
Page One notes trivia on light speed and sound velocity, a quip by Diogenes about sun exposure to Alexander the Great, credit for Lead Kindly Light to John Henry Newman, and a caution by eye specialists about reading with artificial light.
Born in 1681 at Horsens, Jutland, Bering joined the Danish navy then the Russian service. Peter the Great sent him to Siberia to probe Asia and America’s division, a failed first voyage, a second voyage backed by Empress Catherine in 1740 led to landing in the Aleutians, a death at Kamchatka, and the island later named Bering in his honor.
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