Word: diversities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Russia. Archeologists have long known the ruins of New Chersonese, an old Greek settlement, near the modern Crimean city of Sevastopol. But they had never found the more ancient site of Old Chersonese which Strabo, famed Greek geographer, described. Two years ago Professor Markevitch, Crimean archeologist, told the Moscow...
The source of U. S. agar is a dark red alga familiar along the beaches of southern California. The alga grows generally in turbulent waters, must be picked by hand. Engineers are at present at work on a mowing machine which will stand rough seas, make production cheaper. Often the...
Men long ago learned to lay great lengths of pipe overland to transport water, petroleum, natural gas, sewage. Georges Claude of France is the prophet and pioneer of laying great lengths of pipe on an ocean floor, to conduct seawater from the cold bottom to a shore station. Professor Claude...
Last week the Italian salvage ship Artiglio, fitted with all the latest scientific inventions for deep-sea diving, began cruising about the spot fixed by Captain Hedbach, sounding the bottom methodically, inch by inch. They struck a ship, 400 ft. down. Rough sea held up operations for several days, then...
Pandemonium on the Artiglio. The gold-bearing Egypt carried easily distinguishable hydraulic cranes of a type no longer used. Diver Alberto came up, Director Alberto went down. So did several other divers. In short order the wreck was identified as the Egypt. Deep in a jungle of seaweed, blurred with...