Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chosen instrument, Pridi Phanomyong, is of notably nationalist-not Communist-background. In 1932 he helped Phibun set up Thailand's popular constitutional monarchy. He was named rector of Bangkok's respected University of Moral and Political Sciences. During World War II, Pridi led Thailand's underground resistance against the Japanese while Phibun was comfortably presiding over his country's Japanese puppet government (which declared...
...University of Texas tells how the hard-muscled oil industry is both helped and bedeviled by lowly bacteria. To begin with, the oil itself was originally formed by bacteria out of organic remains sinking to the bottom of shallow seas. Bacteria still live in oil sands deep underground; many kinds of petroleum and oilfield brine are alive with them. One species lives only on the tops of salt domes, the telltale indicators of oil deposits, 1,500 ft. below the surface...
Locked Door. Carefully and laboriously over two seasons, Perrot uncovered the Horite village. All the rooms were deep underground, reached by vertical shafts about ten feet long with steps and handholds cut in the hard dirt. Each oval habitation, some 20 feet long, was connected with others by long tunnels. Most extraordinary thing about the Horite dwellings was that they were completely furnished. The entrances were blocked up with stones (the ancient equivalent of locking the door), but everything was in as perfect order as if the inhabitants had just stepped out after tidying up after dinner. Perrot does...
...studying the well-kept cave dwellings, Perrot could form a pretty good idea of the lives and customs of the pre-Abraham Horites. They were farmers who got water from the bed of a nearby wadi and stored it in underground cisterns. They had sheep, cattle and dogs, but no horses or asses. They grew barley, wheat, lentils and peas. Two of their barley varieties are still grown today, but their wheat is a novel type not found even in ancient Egypt. The harvested grain was stored in underground chambers or in massive earthenware jars for current...
...Middle East has "two underground resources of very great importance-namely, water and oil," says British Scientist E. B. Worthington. And he adds: "Of these, water takes first place ... In the Middle East nearly as many murders take place on account of water as on account of women, which is saying a good deal." Oil is what the Middle East has to offer the rest of the world; water is what it needs for itself...