Word: polynesia
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...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...
...message, explaining his reply would cost nothing. His reply (full text): "Greetings." Alain Gerbault, oldtime French tennis star who three years ago completed a solitary trip around the world in a 35-foot sailboat, left Marseilles alone in his new sailboat Alain Gerbault. Friends said he was bound for Polynesia. The city of Nizhni-Novgorod, chief navigation centre on the Volga River. famed for its annual fair, was renamed Maxim Gorki in honor of "Soviet Russia's foremost man of letters." whose birthplace it is. Albert Whiting Fox. Washington attorney, sued Evalyn Walsh McLean for legal fees...
...pair of natives bouncing a rubber ball. Three centuries later Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley could make his erasures with a new-fangled device called a rubber. Two generations after that a Mr. Farris was collecting rubber seeds from Brazil to plant in Ceylon, East India and Polynesia, and Chemist Greville Williams had just discovered that rubber and isoprene were polymers. Then a Frenchman and an American made the plant almost indispensable and the War set half a dozen, nations to work trying to find a way to produce rubber within their boundaries. Thomas Edison boiled up native U. S. weeds...