The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 109National Geographic Society, 1956 - Geography |
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Page 440
... ground in a paroxysm of grief . A scene of mass hysteria and weeping fol- lowed . Women , beating their bodies with sticks , threw themselves on the ground , and men wailed continuously . Gradually the sounds of sorrow became less . One ...
... ground in a paroxysm of grief . A scene of mass hysteria and weeping fol- lowed . Women , beating their bodies with sticks , threw themselves on the ground , and men wailed continuously . Gradually the sounds of sorrow became less . One ...
Page 503
... ground . From then on , the satellite would coast along the downward leg of its elliptic orbit , pick up speed , and return to its starting point 300 miles above the ground . There its speed would again be 5 miles a second , and it ...
... ground . From then on , the satellite would coast along the downward leg of its elliptic orbit , pick up speed , and return to its starting point 300 miles above the ground . There its speed would again be 5 miles a second , and it ...
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... ground on a beach of white sand . We waded ashore on Ifalik island and passed abruptly from blazing sun into the cool half - shade of an immaculate grove of coconut palms . We found afterward that the grove actually is maintained as if ...
... ground on a beach of white sand . We waded ashore on Ifalik island and passed abruptly from blazing sun into the cool half - shade of an immaculate grove of coconut palms . We found afterward that the grove actually is maintained as if ...
Contents
Airplanes New Industry and Military Defense Speed Progress | v |
In These Telltale and Often Beautiful Relics of Vanished | xviii |
Athens to Istanbul A Journey Through the Heart of the | 37 |
Copyright | |
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