Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cossacks from the River Don region had for their leader an ebullient little machine-gun lieutenant named Serge...
Banker Caldwell is well liked, and Southerners have great faith that he will lead their region to big prosperity, will wrest Southern financing from New York and Chicago. He is fond of horses, hunting. Southern gentlemen were delighted when he organized Nashville's two hunts, subsidized members who were good riders and sportsmen but too poor for the luxury. His race horses have done well at Louisville and Latonia. He collects early American silver and furniture, also anything pertaining to Andrew Jackson, his hero. With Col. Luke Lee. Tennessee politician, he acquired the Knoxville Journal and Memphis Commercial Appeal (TIME...
...sometime in the Pleistocene period, the great ice age of 550,000 years ago. The discovery interested Dr. Remington Kellogg, whale authority of the National Museum, Washington. Because early whale bones have been found up the St. Lawrence River near Lake Ontario, scientists have thought that the St. Lawrence region was once a part of the ocean. The new discovery extends this old-time ocean inlet even farther, taking in the entire Great Lakes region. Said Dr. Kellogg: "It's a cinch they [whales] didn't climb Niagara Falls...
...more recent times those two pioneers in Mesopotamian archaeology, Layard and Botta, conducted the first excavations for scientific purpose in that region, and the result of their findings has been the never ending confirmation and growth of Mesopotamian archaeology...
...hearts of Aniakchak and Veniaminoff. There they pitched their tents, found in their subsequent explorations great spurts of steam issuing from cracks in the craters' icy floors. They put a pot of beans over one of the steam streams, baked them for dinner. Another characteristic of the region which made Father Hubbard know that the two great peaks were alive was the lava formation. It was piled up in huge distorted lumps with jagged, jutting corners showing that it has been thrown up recently. Aniakchak and Veniaminoff are two craters of the volcanic range stretching...