Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to avoid the familiar but stunning fact that no advanced civilization, no written language ever existed south of the Sahara. One contemplates the mysterious ruins of Zimbabwe, from which black nationalists have taken the new name for Rhodesia, and which are pointed to with pride as a remnant of a great African past. No one is sure who built this temple city, probably in the last half of the 15th century, but one is struck by the fact that, for all its grandeur, it was erected stone by stone, without mortar, with the most primitive technology, at a time...
...territory is the last remnant of a huge French colonial empire in Africa that as recently as 1958 included 15 states. The others are all independent nations today. Troops of the fabled French Foreign Legion will stay on in Djibouti to help keep order. Reunion island and the Comoro island of Mayotte, both in the Indian Ocean, remain as overseas departments of France, with representatives in the National Assembly in Paris...
...region of deep inlets and fir forests south of Anchorage, the Kenai Fjords area is notable for bird-covered cliffs and a vast population of mountain goats and sea mammals. It also has the remnant of an icefield formed during the Pleistocene epoch, which ended some 10,000 years...
CAPE KRUSENSTERN. A remnant of the vanished Bering land bridge, the cape lies on the route along which man traveled to North America from Asia. The area includes 114 sea-sculpted beach ridges, which contain spearpoints and other artifacts that record in chronological order every major cultural period associated with Eskimo prehistory...
Gilbert Roland's star billing is a mystery. Either it's for old times' sake, or his small role as a refugee-running boat captain is a remnant of the action-on-the-high-seas melodrama that this movie might have been. If the film makers did consciously reject such material in order to concentrate on the gentler, familial themes of Islands, they made a worthy choice. The pity is that they lacked the artistic energy to bring...