Word: beringer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One of the world's rarest furs is the North Pacific sea otter, for the simple reason that except for an occasional poacher's pelt, none has been available for more than half a century. Lustrous dark brown and noted for their durability and warmth, sea-otter skins...
To 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 match she made in 1894 between Nicky and Alicky would have been a happy one, had they not received the vast, ramshackle Russian Empire as a wedding present. His father, Czar Alexander, died at 49, and carefree Nicky, who had expected that papa had another 20 years of healthy...
The most ambitious of all gubernatorial pipedreams was put forward by Walter Hickel, Alaska's first Republican Governor (its second Governor since statehood), who envisioned a new railroad that would stretch 500 miles across the state's high plateau from Fairbanks to Nome. The line would connect with...
Once man knows more precisely just what the weather is going to do and where, he can not only prepare for it but bring to bear his modern tools to dissipate its force, change its course or moderate its impact. Silver-iodide seeding has revived its once-faltering reputation, and...