Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newly found fossils in Nebraska supported the view that the camel and rhinoceros went to Asia from places of origin in what...
Locust females of the three varieties found in Middle Afro-Asia lay several hundred eggs each (by backing into the ground) which grow in a few weeks to winged adults from inch-long size to finger-length miniature bombers, can cross oceans. Experience has shown locusts had best be destroyed in their youth before they gang up and get off the ground. So observers watch their breeding spots. Since last February R.A.F. pilots patrolling the Red Sea have watched for locust swarms as well as enemy aircraft. First step is to destroy the egg emplacements, then spread poison weak enough...
...dominions. What, he asked, could menace them and the sea power which upheld them? Answer: the possession of a body of land so vast and rich that sea power could never encircle it effectively. Mackinder saw such a body of land in what he called the "World-Island" -Europe, Asia, Africa. He imagined it as a mighty whole, pushing the British naval bases on its edges into insignificance...
Said General Chennault: "Schiel was outstanding. He had seen more of Asia than any other flyer of the AVG." His friends buried him in an ancient Chinese cemetery near Kunming...
...past steelstubborn Stalingrad and liquidated Russia's power of attack, Hitler would have been not only man of the year, but he would have been undisputed master of Europe, looking for other continents to conquer. He could have diverted at least 250 victorious divisions to new conquests in Asia and Africa. But Joseph Stalin stopped him. Stalin had done it before-in 1941-when he started with all of Russia intact. But Stalin's achievement of 1942 was far greater. All that Hitler could give he took-for the second time...