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...Choked Fistulas. The Flint Ridge/Mammoth connection, which would establish the system as the longest known cave in the world, required techniques more organized and rigorous than Collins' lone adventuring. By the 1950s, when Brucker and Watson began caving, it was necessary to survey, with chain and compass, every foot of the miles of new cave then being discovered. Some of the finds were spacious passages and great, vaulted limestone halls, but far more often the explorers tried to keep their nerve intact and their carbide lamps lit while jammed into mud-choked fistulas less than a foot high...
Fell said he has a copy of a magnetic compass from what he believes to be about 200 B.C., indicating that Iberians and Libyans were accomplished sailors and could have reached North America at that time...
...bladed propeller (the propeller can also be turned backward). After about 20 minutes under water, Bushnell began to run out of air, but he was determined to continue as long as possible. For another 25 minutes, he cranked the Turtle through the dark waters, steering by a phosphorescent compass needle. Then, when he could stand no more, he released his lead ballast, pumped the water out of the vessel and emerged exhausted on the surface...
...fixed points on the tourist compass are, traditionally, the Capitol and the White House. One can stand at the White House fence and wave to Henry Kissinger or visiting potentates as they come and go; one can jump aboard a Senate subway car with lawmakers whose faces will be on the evening news. Last week the Capitol was unveiling a major new restoration−the old Senate chamber has been returned to its 19th century splendor, replete with red plush benches and coffered half-dome ceiling−just as it was when it rang with the debates of Daniel Webster...
...then spent two years in Southern California, working part time, listening and learning and meeting thousands of Americans. It was there that I found a political compass that has served me well through my subsequent lifetime career as a parliamentarian, internationalist and democrat...