The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 81National Geographic Society, 1942 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 192
Who Built These Astonishing Examples of Irrigation Skill on Luzon ? When and How ? Nobody Knows ! Pagan hill folk , with back - breaking effort , began the monumental work perhaps 20 or 30 centuries ago . Why were terraced rice paddies ...
Who Built These Astonishing Examples of Irrigation Skill on Luzon ? When and How ? Nobody Knows ! Pagan hill folk , with back - breaking effort , began the monumental work perhaps 20 or 30 centuries ago . Why were terraced rice paddies ...
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The diversion dam that solved the problem was built by dumping 40,000 cubic yards of “ one - mansize " stone onto a matting of wire mesh from a timber trestle 800 feet long . China did not have enough wire mesh .
The diversion dam that solved the problem was built by dumping 40,000 cubic yards of “ one - mansize " stone onto a matting of wire mesh from a timber trestle 800 feet long . China did not have enough wire mesh .
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... of population and in the expanded street , scribe in any detail the naval , military , and water , school , recreation , housing , and other aviation establishments already built or being municipal facilities . built around Hampton ...
... of population and in the expanded street , scribe in any detail the naval , military , and water , school , recreation , housing , and other aviation establishments already built or being municipal facilities . built around Hampton ...
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San Diego Cant Believe It By FREDERICK SIMPICH | 45 |
Sun Shines on San Diego 9 illustrations in color from naturalcolor photographs | 57 |
Java Assignment By DEE BREDIN | 89 |
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