Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...table each in turn stands up to discuss the fortunes and policies of Sociedad Anonima Importadora y Exportadora de la Patagonia. Something like a Hudson's Bay Co. of the Southern Hemisphere, "La Anonima" controls most of the commerce and communications in Patagonia, a wild and windswept region that sprawls nearly 1,500 miles south of Buenos Aires and stretches almost to the end of the world. "Other large and famous families have disappeared in Argentina," says Armando Braun-Menendez, 65. "But our family has never been richer...
...Anonima had curious origins. Making a trip south in 1873, Buenos Aires Bookkeeper José Menendez was struck by the region's trading possibilities; ships sailing around the Horn stopped to replenish, and Indians were ready to trade pelts, ambergris and even grazing rights for trinkets and tobacco. Menendez set up a trading post at Punta Arenas, a port and penal settlement, and became friendly with a German emigrant, Elias Braun, who farmed near by. In 1895 Braun's eldest son, Mauricio, married Menendez' eldest daughter, Josefina; joined to romance was a practical mixing of land...
...frequency of a radio outburst corresponds to the height above the sun's surface emit high frequency signals; bases higher in the solar corona radiate at lower frequencies. Thus, a change in the frequency of a solar signal is caused by a change in the height of the emitting region. With this in mind four general types of solar outbursts have been distinguished...
...minute or less. The source of these bursts is a turbulent area in the corona above an active sunspot. An entire noise storm may last for hours of days. The bursts are generally confined to a narrow range of frequencies, not greater than 30 megacycles, because the emitting region is at a fairly constant height in the corona...
Rainfall in most of that region averages only about 5 in. per year, barely enough to support the dustiest desert vegetation. But the Nabataeans learned how to concentrate the rain, leading the water off bare plateaus and making it flow gently down narrow valleys so that it filled cisterns cut in the rock and sank into the fields enclosed in stone walls. Valleys that are now deserted except for wandering Bedouins, once supported strings of villages. The country has never been as thickly inhabited since...