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...National Geographic Society, after studying sites in the Sahara, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula and Baluchistan, last year discovered an ideal spot for the Institution's first sun station in the Eastern Hemisphere. For three years Mr. Hoover will live, beneath a cloudless, dustless sky, in the Brukkaros crater, with a 60-ft. precipice for his doorstep and only Hottentots for neighbors. He will take daily readings from a bolometer capable of registering to a millionth of a degree the sun's radiation. His daily telegrams to Washington will be studied by long-range weather-forecasters, who, working...
...technically active of Japan's 200 or more volcanic peaks, Mount Tokachi, is at the intersection of two volcanic ranges that intersect on the kite-shaped island. Three main explosions took place, the first setting loose the water that had lain cradled in the crater since time immemorial, the third causing an appalling landslide as the crater walls were hurled down the mountain. It was Japan's first long dormant volcano to erupt since Mount Sakurajima in 1914. The semi-sacred Fujiyama has done nothing violent since...
...this volcanic lake. Last week Premier Mussolini ordered the Ministry of Public Instruction to take steps for the recovery of these galleys. Experts opined that the only feasible method will be to tunnel into the side of the extinct volcano of which the Lago di Nemi is the crater, and thus drain off the deep water which thwarted two previous attempts by divers and grapples...
...found the crater of Vesuvius swarming with billions of ladybugs. . . . I was taken for a Frenchman in Damascus and bombarded with rotten fruit . . . . No wonder! Near there I saw 300 Senegalese soldiers riding along on camels and lashing at the faces of passing Syrians with long whips. A fine way to pacify them! . . . I visited Enrico Caruso's tomb while in Italy, and was surprised to find his perfectly embalmed corpse lying in a glass sarcophagus, clad in evening clothes. . . . He almost appeared alive. . . The attendant who raised the American flag which covered the sarcophagus demanded one lira...
...drew back and looked around me?it was a beautiful and terrible sight. The gloomy walls of the crater rose up on all sides, splashed here and there by red and yellow patches and lit up fantastically by the sunlight. The smoke rose up from the mouth in great curves and spread itself about in the crater, but, fortunately, nearly always in the opposite direction from where I was standing. I raised my voice and repeatedly called out to my companion, whom I could just see above me on the edge of the crater, in order to try the famous...