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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... built by dumping 40,000 cubic yards of " one - man- size " stone onto a mat- ting of wire mesh from a timber trestle 800 feet long . China did not have enough wire mesh . It had to be brought from Japan . But stone transport was the ...
... built by dumping 40,000 cubic yards of " one - man- size " stone onto a mat- ting of wire mesh from a timber trestle 800 feet long . China did not have enough wire mesh . It had to be brought from Japan . But stone transport was the ...
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... built sand palaces on the beach or spun tops , just like young Ameri- can boys . Even at this juvenile age , however , they had learned to assume a princely dignity when occasion demanded . This royal family did not live together in one ...
... built sand palaces on the beach or spun tops , just like young Ameri- can boys . Even at this juvenile age , however , they had learned to assume a princely dignity when occasion demanded . This royal family did not live together in one ...
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Sun Shines on San Diego 9 illustrations in color from naturalcolor photographs | 57 |
Taming Flood Dragons Along Chinas Hwang Ho River By OLIVER J TODD | 205 |
Alumina | 462 |
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