Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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April 30, 1915, President Wilson created Reserve No. 3 (Teapot Dome) near Casper, Wyo., containing 9,481 acres. (There are two other Reserves, Nos. 4 and 5, in Utah in the shale oil region...
...Placer, by "Colorums," fanatics. On the following day Colonel Bowers with another detachment landed on Bucas Island, adjoining this coast, and, under cover of machine-gun fire from the gunboat Sacramento, burned a town held by 600 Colorums. General Wood's yacht Apo was proceeding to the same region with reinforcements; for the Colorums in repeated attacks had killed some score of the constabulary - although the fanatics themselves lost about four times that number...
...Copenhagen (TIME, Nov. 19), for the enlargement of his research laboratory in theoretical physics. American physicists as well as others from foreign countries will conduct investigations in the Danish laboratory, which is supported in part by the Danish government. Dr. Bohr will specialize on investigation of the infra-red region of the spectrum and on X-ray spectra...
Located in Rainless Region...
...Harvard Observatory has been located at Chuquicamata, Chile, about twenty miles from the Smithsonian station, and at an altitude of between seven and eight thousand feet. The region is practically rainless, and the available records indicate long seasons of cloudless skies...