Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They stay midway between large land masses, but in a few places they run ashore, forming, for instance, the steep-sided Jordan Valley and the famous rift system in East Africa which contains both Lake Tanganyika and the Red Sea. Another crack runs ashore in Mexico, to form the Gulf of California and the Imperial Valley...
Atlantir. The rift that strikes north from the Gulf of California may some day, many millions of years away, put ? broad ocean between Los Angeles and the rest...
Next year's budget will be another whopper: 20th will make 40 pictures worth $60 million, among them The Greatest Story Ever Told, John Brown's Body and The Battle of Leyte Gulf...
...again by Genghis Khan. Near the end of the 13th century, Marco Polo reported it once more a "very great and eminent city," and 100 years later Tamerlane made it the capital of his empire, which stretched from the Hellespont to the Ganges, and from Siberia to the Persian Gulf...
ARCHAEOLOGY holds no more compelling mystery than that of the Olmec Indians, who ruled the Gulf coast of Mexico even before the time of Christ. The well-known Mayan, Toltec and Aztec civilizations all stemmed from the Olmec culture, but their parent culture remains almost totally unknown. Practically all science has to go on is works of art dug from the jungle ground...