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Tomboro on Sumbawa, second island east of Bali, is at the end of its 131-year cycle. In 1815 Tomboro produced one of the greatest explosions of all history. Dr. Jaggar thinks that it was greater than Krakatoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Year of Fire | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...crates and hissed their sullen woe. They were waiting for a U. S. customs officer to let them be hauled up to The Bronx Zoo. They could afford to wait. They had come a long way. In space it was 11,000 mi., from the Island of Komodo between Sumbawa and Flores in the Dutch East Indies. In time it was more than 60,000,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Dragons | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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