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Link’s store specializes in travel, exploration and discovery books, he says. Among his best finds are an atlas of maps of Asia from 1658 and a history of Wales from 1584 that claims the Welsh discovered America before Christopher Columbus (a book that would sell for about $2,500, he says...
Sources: U.S. Air Force, United Nations, Associated Press, Reuters, Jane's Information Group, Trouble Spots: The World Atlas of Strategic Information, GlobalSecurity.org U.S. Department of Defense
...least the Fact Monster www.factmonster.com can ease the pain. It's a funky, cartoon-style website for kids, with features like the math-themed Bug Splat game, a dinosaur quiz and a learned essay on the history of the lunch box. Oh, and it also has an almanac, an atlas, a dictionary and an encyclopedia. It's so cool that kids will forget it's educational...
...took a good five minutes for Li Changcheng and his wife to locate Mombasa in an atlas. Once they found it, the pair stared at the unprepossessing dot, trying to imagine the riches that lay on Africa's east coast. Six centuries earlier, Admiral Zheng He, with only the barest outline as a guide, did the same, only his imperial fleet was sailing to a mighty sultanate, at the peak of its power, not a faded port crumbling into the sea. Yet, despite the paint peeling from its once majestic, oceanfront villas, Mombasa and the surrounding strip of coastline still...
...company is a subsidiary of the privately held Evergreen International Aviation, based in McMinnville, Ore., whose interests include airplane sales, ground logistics and freight forwarding. The Air Center has done work for America West and cargo carriers such as Atlas Air, which has the largest fleet of 747 freighters in the world. Evergreen also maintains NASA's two 747s, used to haul the space shuttles. And it is one of only a handful of prep centers for Boeing. That means new planes from Boeing's factories are sometimes stored temporarily at Evergreen, then later prepared by Evergreen workers for final...