Record temps, crops, canals and new trees in world snippet
The article notes Death Valley's 134 degree record from 1913 and high farm rural population in Kansas. It cites the Panama Canal layout, diamond uses, Telstar signal decline, rising credit card risks for travelers, X-15 flight behavior, Bulgaria's Bachkovo Monastery dating to 1083, Portofino conservation rules, and global spread of "new trees" like eucalyptus and Monterey pine in new climates.
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Australia
California
Morocco
South Africa
India
North America
Iran
Iraq
Argentina
Uruguay
New Zealand
Chile
Amazing Creature The Snail Sings
A National Geographic style feature highlights snails. It notes 30000 species range from Arctic to Antarctic and even 18000 feet in the Himalayas. Giants like the Giant African snail chew crops and can strip a head of lettuce. Snails survive long without food and can regrow eyes and teeth. The piece mentions Strombus pugilis as a fierce foot fighter. It cites the British Snail-Watching Society founded in 1945 and disbanded two years later. It ends with a playful French poet quote and a caption about a Western Canada snail specimen photographed by Len Bland.
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Strombus Pugilis
Arctic
Antarctic
Himalayas
National Geographic Society
Africa
Hawaii
Orient
Peter J. Henniker-Heaton
Migrating Trees Across the Globe by Seed Travel
Seeds act as forest footprints guiding tree migration. Wind and gravity scatter them, with natural averages pushing more sprouting on warmer or moister sides. Trees like oak maple hickory elm ash beech poplar birch move as a woodland, with accompanying shrubs and flowers along for the journey.
Youngster Interprets Hen’s Warning in Farmyard Tale
A playful scene from a Alberta farm where a one and a half year old child observers a chicken house. The hen’s excited cackling leads to the child’s translation get get get out. Mrs M Liedeman of Deville Alberta receives a five dollar award for the best translation of the hen’s scolding.
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M. Liedeman
Deville
Alberta
Also Mentioned on This Page
Death Valley
United States
Panama Canal
Atlantic
Pacific Terminal
National Geographic Magazine
Panama
Pacific
Telstar
Canada
Canadian Automobile Association
U.S
Bulgaria
Bachkovo
Rhodope Mountains
Portofino
Riviera
Burgundy
France
Florida Everglades
South America
Egypt
British Museum
Earth
Francis Ponce
Western
Len Bland
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