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Word: zambesi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another group of Rhodesian commandos dressed as local soldiers destroyed a ferry in Botswana. The ferry crossed the Zambesi river where Botswana, Zambia and Rhodesia meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhodesians Attack Zambia; Nkomo Kidnapping Raid Fails | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

...that the region's unusually harsh landscape was one more puzzle connected with the peculiar geological formations of East Africa's Great Rift Valley, a 3,000-mile series of breaks in the earth's surface, which stretches as far south as the mouth of the Zambesi River. To Tazieff, however, it is an illustration of a more intriguing phenomenon: continental drift. After years of debate, scientists have finally become convinced that the earth's huge land masses are really moving. As they see it, lava is pouring out of a 47,000-mile-long chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birth of an Ocean | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

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