Word: beringer
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Where lie the farthest limits of northern Asia? Peter the Great did not know, and he wanted to. So, in 1725, Czar Peter sent a Dane named Vitus Bering and 33 men to poke around in Kamchatka, and especially to find out whether a land bridge connected Asia and North...
Authorities believe that the forerunners of the American Indian came to this continent from Siberia by a passage across the Bering Sea. In 1948, a Peabody Museum expedition discovered that no migrations had taken place across the Aleutian Islands passageway.
The Hunters. According to orthodox theories, the first Americans were the Folsom and the Sandia men, whose ancestors crossed the Bering Strait from Asia. They were highly developed hunters, making beautiful stone weapons to kill dangerous game, and their level of culture was not much below that of Europeans of...
"The division suffered 2,400 cases of frostbite during the withdrawal," said Captain Bering. "We had good clothing in sufficient quantity, and the men had been indoctrinated, although they were not trained Arctic troops by any means. But the very nature of that fight made it impossible for the troops...
Beginning French, they claim, need not be a bering motorization of such dry phrases as "the pen of my father in on my mother's bed." Translations can titillate. In 44 cartoons and 43 free and easy translation, they proved three point.