Word: riversing
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America was created by people riding its rivers--the most fruitful, profitable places to settle lying just around the bend. The country itself was a bend in the river, a story about to be disclosed, a promise of progress--that, of course, and a murder plot. Following rivers with Indian...
The Mississippi did that from the start. In the spring and summer of 1768, Montfort Browne, Lieutenant Governor of Florida, made his way along the lower Mississippi to the area of "the Natches," where he found "the most charming prospects in the world." By the mid-1770s, colonial explorers were...
Time was when the solar system had two watery worlds. Directly next door to the warm, wet, loamy Earth was the warm, wet, loamy Mars, both planets sloshing with oceans and running with rivers--and both possibly teeming with life. Billions of years ago, however, the low-gravity Mars had...
Finding liquid water on Mars' surface has never been easy--mostly because it simply can't exist there. The modern-day Martian atmosphere has barely 1% the density of Earth's, and the planet's average temperature hovers around a paralyzing -67[degrees]F. In an environment as harsh as...
So, of course, do such potent variables as geography (coastline, access to rivers, ports), climate, religious heritage, sponsorship by superpowers and luck. Political explanations (imperialism, colonialism, racism) have passed out of fashion, if only because, true or not, they represent a protest without a program, a righteousness ultimately feckless.