Engineering Feats Mark Civilization On Earth And Sea
Washington bulletin highlights civil engineering as mankind reshaping the globe from river diversions in Pennsylvania to the Panama and Suez canals. It notes railways bridges tunnels and city subsystems as visible marks from moon observers and cites Dutch dikes Mesopotamian canals and modern tunnelwork as key achievements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pennsylvania
National Geographic Society
Cheops
China
Europe
New York
London
Paris
Tte
Galveston
Texas
New Orleans
Venice
Leningrad
Netherlands
Los Angeles
United States
Equator
Alps
Andes
Rockies
Florida
Key West
Saved From Cannibals by Doing Charleston
Sydney Australia composer Palmer Kent recounts a New Hebrides island walkabout where cannibalism was practiced. He danced the Charleston to distract armed natives and was saved as semi nude villagers followed his moves and presented gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Australia
Palmer Kent
Epi Island
New Hebrides
Kent
Ancient 1-Billion-Year-Old Sea Beach Found in Michigan
Professor W A Seaman of Michigan College of Mining and Technology identifies a vast ancient sea beach in Michigan's upper peninsula near the Marquette branch state prison. He notes preserved traces in the hardest rocks and links the iron formation to northern Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Arctic Ocean, with ore from Lake Superior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Houghton
Mich
Upper Peninsula
W. A. Seaman
Department of Geology of Michigan College of Mining and Technology
Marquette Branch State Prison
Seaman
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Arctic Ocean
Hudson Bay
Lake Superior
Champion
Lake Michigamme
Marquette
Spain into America Spain into America
The Spanish empire spread from its old world base to the Americas and the Pacific. By 1580 it held vast territories in Europe and the New World, while Spanish language and culture reached Trinidad, Uruguay, Mexico, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and the Philippines, shaping law, customs, and daily life across a wide arc.
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Spain
France
Europe
Great Britain
North Africa
Asia
United States
Egypt
Aswan
Nile
Sennar
Blue Nile
Ashti
India
National Geographiic Society
Washington, D. C
Columbus
America
Vasco da Gama
Indian Ocean
Portugal
Azores
Cape Verde Islands
West Indies
Brazil
New World
South America
North America
Hispaniola
Santo Domingo
Jamaica
Porto Rico
Cuba
Panama
Florida
Argentina
Balboa
Pacific
Magellan
Philippines
Mexico
Panama City
Peru
Chile
California
New Mexico
Texas
Arizona
Colorado
Venezuela
Colombia
Caribbean
Low Countries
Naples
Milan
Sicily
Sardinia
Canary Islands
Central America
Africa
Uruguay
Portuguese Brazil
Dutch Guiana
Trinidad
Leeward
Windward
Dominican
Rio Grande
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Tigris
Euphrates
Mesopotamia
Red Sea
New York City
New San Francisco
Saxony
Loetschberg
St. Gotthard
Simpson
Charleston
Chicago
Forest Preserve
Riverside
San Juan
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