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...strong enough to draw them back. They developed their own gravities and took to twirling in nearly circular orbits around the Sun.*They all turn around the Sun in the same direction; and they all, except Uranus and Neptune, and possibly the New Planet, turn on their own polar axis in the same direction. ?Uranus .and Neptune are retrograde. The map shows their approximately relative position as of March 24, as might be seen by an observer on the star nearest to the celestially pretty Solar System, North Star, about 240 million miles away...
...April 1925, Frederick Albert Cook, M.D., polar explorer, mountain climber, oil stock promoter, entered the U.S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., became convict No. 23,118, began to serve a 14-year sentence. Not for the doubt that had been cast upon his story of "discovering" the North Pole was he convicted, but for using the U.S. mails to defraud...
...shows the outlines and land regions of the antarctic continent as they were known last week. It is an extension of the map recently made by the American Geographical Society (John Huston Finley, president, Isaiah Bowman, director), most assiduous recorder of polar explorations...
Admiral Byrd, whose better equipped expedition did more thorough and extensive work, similarly named new localities?Marie Byrd Land (after his wife), Rockefeller Mts., Charles Bob Mts. His flight over the South Polar Plateau added very little more to the knowledge of the plateau itself than Amundsen and Scott, afoot, recorded the antarctic "summer" of 1911-12. However, he could see the real lay of the Queen Maude Range, of which the Charles Bob Mts. are an extension. Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, on a 1,500-mi. sledge and ski trip over the Ross Shelf ice to the foot...
...great again as that of the U. S. Ages ago it had a mild climate, indicated by fossilized marine and land life. Apparently never connected with the other continents, it was never inhabited by humans. Its chief denizens nowadays are whales, seals, penguins, petrels. There are no south polar bears...