The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 101National Geographic Society, 1952 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 120
Like a top , it rotates on its axis , once every 24 hours , spinning faster than 1,000 miles per hour at the Equator . Also like a top , Earth wobbles as it turns , but so slowly it takes 26,000 years to complete one " wobble .
Like a top , it rotates on its axis , once every 24 hours , spinning faster than 1,000 miles per hour at the Equator . Also like a top , Earth wobbles as it turns , but so slowly it takes 26,000 years to complete one " wobble .
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No hint in this peaceful setting of the half - forgotten truth - that this little island once was starred with bursting shells and striped with soldiers ' blood . Old Fort Mackinac induced reverie . Below its walls , ore boats furrowed ...
No hint in this peaceful setting of the half - forgotten truth - that this little island once was starred with bursting shells and striped with soldiers ' blood . Old Fort Mackinac induced reverie . Below its walls , ore boats furrowed ...
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The other driver , of course , had blundered ; at once the air was filled with waving arms , cries of " Espèce d'idiot ! " and various other phrases not generally found in the dictionaries . Paris , when at length I could settle back in ...
The other driver , of course , had blundered ; at once the air was filled with waving arms , cries of " Espèce d'idiot ! " and various other phrases not generally found in the dictionaries . Paris , when at length I could settle back in ...
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