Word: itaquaquecetuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thoughts like this occur not only to aeronauts, engineers, travelers. The current issue of the Scientific Monthly shows that this particular thought, "around the world in a daylight day," occurred to Dr. Charles H. T. Townsend, a U. S. entomologist stationed at Itaquaquecetuba, Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil, during his studies of a muscoid fly called Cephenemyia, the world's fastest aeronaut. Much like a bumblebee in size, color and form, Cephenemyia begins life as a larval parasite in the nasal passages or other head cavities of deer, cattle and other ruminants. To find suitable host animals and catch...
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