Word: polynesia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merely "The Islands," as Californians call the Hawaiians, but the southerly archipelagoes-Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia...
...culture. Advocates of the former theory might admit when pressed that if not as old as the hills it is as least as old as hills with bushes on them. Advocates of the latter theory would claim, if given half a chance, that no such thing existed in, say, Polynesia before the arrival of Captain Cook. But they probably would not have read "Coming of Age in Samoa...
...almost forgets that other archeologists who are interested in the cultures of pre-Columbian America are still agnostic about the origins of the Inca, Aztec and Maya Indian civilizations. And if one looks at a map of the world, one is struck by the vast distances between outposts of Polynesia and America, between Easter Island and Chile, between the Hawaiian Islands and Mexico. Could Polynesians or Chinese, in their small boats or canoes, have traversed such forbidding stretches of water to bring a god of Egyptian origin to Yucatan and Mexico...
...reading to his publishers and gone off to the South Seas to forget all about the "Jewish problem". I want to go some place", he writes, "Where no one wears brown shirts, or silver ones, or indeed any shirts at all." He expects to spend several weeks cruising in Polynesia, and will return in time to keep a series of lecture engagements in the last of April...
...Earth's total population is 1,820 million. Asia contains 954 million, Europe 478 million, North America 162 million, South America 77 million, Africa 140 million, Australia & Polynesia 9 million. Cornell's astute Walter Francis Willcox estimates that the world's population in 1650 was 465 million, about one-fourth his present 1,820 million estimate...