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...western half of the island-second largest in the world, after Greenland-is known as Irian Jaya and is now part of Indonesia...
...however, were consistently hooted down with the derision scientists so often reserve for new ideas. Wegener, who had already established a reputation as a polar explorer and meteorologist, was undaunted. After his recovery, he devoted his life to proving the theory of continental drift. In 1930 Wegener died in Greenland in a search for evidence. But other men were able to carry on where he left off. Today, with slight variations, the idea that the earth is a fragile and constantly changing planet is generally accepted by most geologists...
...entering one of its chilly phases. Perhaps the gloomiest of the weather prophets, Bryson speculates that the earth may be reverting to a frigid interlude comparable to what some scientists call the "little ice age" that cooled Europe from the 16th through 19th centuries. During those years Greenland's once lush fields vanished, England's productive vineyards withered, and agricultural disasters like Ireland's great potato famine came to be accepted as a natural feature of life...
...knew of the great Dr. Grenfell, taking young men out of the crowd, telling them about Labrador, Newfoundland, Greenland; and about the people up there, who had nothing. Then they'd tell their families that they were going north with Dr. Grenfell for four, maybe six months, not to worry about them, not to try to get in touch with them. They'd get on board Grenfell's boat and wouldn't be heard from until they returned one day out of the blue...
...based his precise location on what seemed to be large stone walk-ways leading from the rivers, similar to those built by the Northmen in Iceland and Greenland. Those stones were pushed aside for highways in the 1940s and have never been dated. Perhaps this is a sinister plot to play with history perpetrated by a powerful Cambridge ethnic group, one that would rather celebrate Columbus...