Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli citizen-soldier, who humbled the Arab Goliath and continues to withstand the pressures of a hostile UN, the threats of Russia, the treachery of France, the nagging criticism of Britain and the lukewarm support of the U.S. S. LEVIN Johannesburg, South Africa...
...Western security in the foreseeable future will almost certainly be Communist China." As China's nuclear-supported military strength and prestige grew, he predicted, "it will use that prestige and a disproportionate share of its resources to extend its influence and create maximum disorder in Asia and Africa...
...that provides more than a quarter of the $2,400,000 budget. Another $200,000 to $300,000 comes from a wild annual public sale that in the past has attracted Auctioneers Ronald Reagan, Willie Mays and Bishop James Pike to gavel down such items as a safari to Africa and neckties made from bed sheets on which the Beatles slept...
...Late Pleistocene had survived previous advances and retreats of the ice sheets. And although scientists generally agree that the major climatic changes of the past 50,000 years occurred at approximately the same time throughout the world, the disappearance of species did not. Thus the antlered giraffe disappeared from Africa more than 40,000 years ago, and the rhino-sized Diprotodon and giant kangaroo became extinct in Australia about 14,000 years ago. In Europe and Asia, the woolly rhinoceros and the woolly mammoth ceased to exist between 11,000 and 13,000 years ago, before the species disappeared...
...Geochronologist Martin, the pattern is clear. The demise of these animals closely follows the migration of man, the hunter. In Africa, for example, the disappearance of many species of big game seems to coincide with the first record of fire in archaeological sites. Fire, Martin speculates, was used by the early African hunters to encircle entire herds of animals. With this technique, they destroyed more animals than they needed for food and clothing-a primitive version of overkill. In North America, the musk ox suddenly died out in a large swath across what is now Canada and the U.S. between...