The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 74National Geographic Society, 1938 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... lower ceiling was still about 6,000 feet . Traveling a compass course above the overcast , we flew till dead reckoning placed us well beyond the area where we knew mountains below us were poking their peaks into the lower side of the ...
... lower ceiling was still about 6,000 feet . Traveling a compass course above the overcast , we flew till dead reckoning placed us well beyond the area where we knew mountains below us were poking their peaks into the lower side of the ...
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Her lower lip , about 25 inches in circumference , encircles the container for a 400 - foot reel of motion picture film . So elastic has the skin become that when it is pulled it snaps back like a rubber band . Tradition tells that this ...
Her lower lip , about 25 inches in circumference , encircles the container for a 400 - foot reel of motion picture film . So elastic has the skin become that when it is pulled it snaps back like a rubber band . Tradition tells that this ...
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... ( lower left ) are armed with close - set teeth that resemble rasps of a file . Here and there dart TANGS , or surgeon fishes , of indigo hue ( lower right ) . These have a sharp , hook - shaped lancet near the tail that can lacerate an ...
... ( lower left ) are armed with close - set teeth that resemble rasps of a file . Here and there dart TANGS , or surgeon fishes , of indigo hue ( lower right ) . These have a sharp , hook - shaped lancet near the tail that can lacerate an ...
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A Motor Caravan Rolls Across Sahara and Jungle Through Realms | 327 |
Wild Tribesmen With Topknots Roam the Little | 391 |
Marine Fishes and Fisheries Yield Vast Wealth from Alaska | 463 |
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