Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, a 4.7 earthquake rocked lightly populated Kodiak Island, off the coast of Alaska. In July, a 6.8 quake struck Pagan, Burma, destroying or damaging half of the city's historic temples. Within the past several weeks, strong earthquakes struck Oroville, Calif., Mindanao in the Philippines, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia and the southwest Pacific island of Bougainville...
...influence upon sinners as an earthquake." The ancient Japanese believed that the hundreds of quakes that shook (and still shake) their islands every year were caused by the casual movements of a great spider that carried the earth on its back. Natives of Siberia's quake-prone Kamchatka Peninsula blamed the tremors on a giant dog named Kosei tossing snow off his fur. Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher and mathematician, believed that earthquakes were caused by the dead fighting among themselves. Another ancient Greek, Aristotle, had a more scientific explanation. He contended that the earth's rumblings were...
...Pass and almost all of the Giddi Pass, retaining only some foothills at its eastern terminus (see map following page). The passes are the keys to the Sinai. North of them is soft sand; south of them are towering granite mountains. Any army that wants to move across the peninsula is almost compelled to go through the two passes, and Israel's General Staff has hitherto considered them indispensable to the country's security. Since the October war in 1973, Jerusalem has spent $60 million fortifying nature's own impressive defenses, honeycombing the black granite with miniforts...
...Chief Rabbinate consists of the chief rabbi of the Ashkenazim (descendants of Middle European Jews), the chief rabbi of the Sephardim (descendants of Jews from the Iberian peninsula), plus other high-ranking rabbis...
...week, Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy announced that Egypt would not agree to extend it unless immediate progress is made hi reaching a second-stage disengagement agreement with Israel. Fahmy's threat raised the possibility that the blue-bereted U.N. wedge between Israeli and Egyptian forces in the desert peninsula might have to be pulled out, that peace negotiations might break down, and that an inadvertent step by either side might lead to another Middle East...