The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 92National Geographic Society, 1948 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 399
... turning . From that turning the whole world gets its time . Our giant planet of solid rock , with its thin skin of continents and oceans , weighing well over six sextillion tons , turns at a speed that varies less than the works of the ...
... turning . From that turning the whole world gets its time . Our giant planet of solid rock , with its thin skin of continents and oceans , weighing well over six sextillion tons , turns at a speed that varies less than the works of the ...
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... turned back when crew members complained of " seeing pink , " a warning symptom of the dreaded anoxia from the long - continued altitude of nearly three miles without oxygen equipment . Over the mountains it had been necessary to keep ...
... turned back when crew members complained of " seeing pink , " a warning symptom of the dreaded anoxia from the long - continued altitude of nearly three miles without oxygen equipment . Over the mountains it had been necessary to keep ...
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... turned east and found themselves flying in what was like a great bowl of milk where there was no horizon . They did not know whether it was fog or mist or snow . There was no yardstick with which to judge distance . They didn't like it ...
... turned east and found themselves flying in what was like a great bowl of milk where there was no horizon . They did not know whether it was fog or mist or snow . There was no yardstick with which to judge distance . They didn't like it ...
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Scenes of Postwar Finland By La Verne Bradley With illustrations from photographs | 233 |
The Societys New Map of the Caribbean Area Text accompanying special map supple | 523 |
The Societys New Map of the South Central United States Text accompanying special | 845 |
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