Desert Land Explorer Discovery in Archangel Russia
An early description notes Firat discovered by the English explorer Stephen Borough in 1560. Nova Zeimbra is described as a moisty Arctic land with 86 000 square miles, adjoining Archangel province. The interior features a marine mountain chain, ice sheets, valleys, lakes, and sparse flora and fauna, while the southern coast hosts abundant seabirds and salmon rivers.
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Nova Zeimbra
Archangel
North
Russia
Moainland
Gooseland
Saltings and Salt Sunday in old rural Britain
The article recalls a historic harvest of salt from Essex saltings on Salt Sunday in November. Farmers exchanged surplus livestock for salt, a practice tied to superstition about bad luck from spillages, and explains the origin of the saying I have a rod in pickle for you and its harsh childrearing context.
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Britain
Essex
Leaders in Glass Making Celebrated Chance's Optical Glass Fame
The Chance name is linked to scientific glass making worldwide. A centennial British firm, its sheet glass glazed the original Crystal Palace and its optical glass equipped major telescopes and lighthouse prisms. Smethwick works supplied prisms for lighthouses around the world.
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Chance
Crystal Palace
Hyde Park
Smethwick Works
London Times
Dew Reservoirs to Boost Rural Water Supplies
Dew reservoirs collect moisture from air to supply farms and homes distant from streams. Radiating surfaces stay cold, condense damp air, and drip water into basins for piping to level land. The system promises little maintenance for cisterns and troughs.
Pima Cotton Proves Superior in Bag Tests
The Bureau of Standards tested Pima cotton against ordinary cotton for bag durability. Two hundred pouches of Pima cotton and 200 of normal cotton were used for a year in the hardest service. None of the Pima bags tore. about one third of the ordinary bags wore badly.
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United States
Bureau of Standards
Bureau
British survey in Palestine stalls Zionist land purchases
A complete real estate survey of the Holy Land is underway by the British administration in Palestine. Many titles and boundary lines are disputed, delaying agricultural settlement as Zionist settlers from different countries are unable to buy land.
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Holy Land
Palestine
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