Word: arctics
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Yukon lies to the west of Canada's Northwest Territories (Mackenzie, Keewatin and Franklin). These four stretch across the sparsely populated top of the continent. Yukon, jammed between Alaska-and Mackenzie, is washed on the north by the Arctic Ocean. It is a tilted rugged land sloping unevenly eastward from the Rockies and northward from British Columbia's upper border which is the 60th Parallel and where Mount Logan. Canada's highest, looms to 19,850 ft. To get into the Yukon sportsmen and other travelers take a Canadian Pacific steamship from Vancouver to Skagway, Alaska, change...
Other airship disasters and fatalities have been: the French "Dixmude" in 1923, 52; the U.S.S. "Shenandoah" in 1925, 14; the "Italia", lost in the Arctic in 1928 with Commander Nobile and seven others; the British R-101 in 1930, 46; Its sister ship, the R-100, was dismantled. The "Roma" crashed in Virginia in 1932 with the loss of 34 lives...
...Queen Elizabeth to "annoy the King of Spain in his Indies,"red-bearded little Francis Drake put out from Plymouth in the Golden Hind, entered Magellan Strait, went plundering up the west coast of the New World. Laden with Spanish treasure, he pushed north in search of an Arctic passage back to England. One day in the spring of 1579, he sailed into a "convenient and fit harborough" somewhere near the future site of San Francisco. There he received the homage of native Indians and, according to his chaplain's account, nailed to a "faire great poste"a brass...
...Police Gazette, Madeleine Carroll and Dick Powell chivying a bean-wagon proprietor (Billy Gilbert), Alice Faye's deliciously cool contralto singing This Year's Kisses. Best moments of all, however, are contributed by the insane Ritz Brothers, who put on three zany acts: 1) The Arctic Explorers; 2) The Russian Band; and 3) The Lonely Professor, to the tune of He Ain't Got Rhythm...
...ARCTIC ADVENTURE: MY LIFE IN THE FROZEN NORTH-Peter Freuchen-Farrar & Rinehart...