Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told that our school may become a model not only for secondary schools in the Western region of Nigeria, but for other African countries as well," he said...
MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART-15 West 54th. Objects from the Massim region of New Guinea and 60 tempera paintings of primitive sculpture by Mexican Miguel Covarrubias, an important scholar in the field. Through...
...instruments recorded the quake, and their work will go on for months or years. But already they know that the epicenter (the place on the earth's surface that is directly above the underground source of trouble) was located somewhere between Anchorage and Valdez in a wild, uninhabited region of glaciers and high, rugged mountains. Caltech's famed Seismologist Charles F. Richter thinks that the focus-the point where the shock originated-was at the comparatively shallow depth of 20 miles below the epicenter...
...South Australia. A combine made up of Delhi-Taylor and Santos, Ltd. has struck two wells 500 miles north of Adelaide with a potential flow of 30 million cu. ft. per day, and last week the Australian-owned Associated Group struck its 21st gas well in the Roma region of Queensland. Associated is already talking of a 280-mile pipeline to carry gas to Brisbane's burgeoning and power-hungry industry, and of a petrochemical complex for making products that could range from fertilizer to plastics...
After the turbulence of the Revolutionary War, people swarmed into the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys. They found no land of their dreams but a forbidding forest. The favorite rendezvous of almost every crook in the region was a cave on the banks of the Ohio on the Kentucky-Illinois border. More than 50 feet wide and 140 feet deep, the cave provided all that a hardened criminal could ask for: prostitutes "none cranny, gambling in another; heaps of counterfeit coin; and an escape hatch in the rear. The cave, Wellman writes, was the "lair of the worst cutthroats, freebooters...