Word: tana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made Europe's biggest jump in power production, the nationalized power companies revealed plans to double their 47.5 billion kwh. capacity within eight years. Kenya is about to start work on a project that will harness a 900-ft. drop in the country's largest river, the Tana...
James Bruce, a gingerish Scottish aristocrat, was the first Briton to penetrate to the headwaters of the Blue Nile, at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Bruce's intrusion into the "nightmarish fantasy of Ethiopian affairs," where he casually joined as it suited him one or another of the chronic little local wars, is a historic comedy with tragic forebodings. Bruce himself was an arrogant braggart, and Moorehead has great fun with his efforts to discredit the stories of missionaries who had been there before...