The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 64National Geographic Society, 1934 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... coins are in the upper left . To their right is oriental ring money . In the center are " fishhook " coins of India and Persia . The porous bar at left of the fishhooks is 15th - century Russian money . The big coin , like a double ...
... coins are in the upper left . To their right is oriental ring money . In the center are " fishhook " coins of India and Persia . The porous bar at left of the fishhooks is 15th - century Russian money . The big coin , like a double ...
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... coins help verify history and fill in many gaps . Be- sides images of war- riors and royalty , many early coins also bear the heads of bulls or lions , the figures of ath- letes , hunted animals , ears of corn , and other designs . Some ...
... coins help verify history and fill in many gaps . Be- sides images of war- riors and royalty , many early coins also bear the heads of bulls or lions , the figures of ath- letes , hunted animals , ears of corn , and other designs . Some ...
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... coins . Sunday mornings at the Pasay cock- pits silver dollars fairly rained on the ground as excited gamblers threw money from the grandstand , yelling their com- mands as to which rooster they were betting on . At the San Lázaro track ...
... coins . Sunday mornings at the Pasay cock- pits silver dollars fairly rained on the ground as excited gamblers threw money from the grandstand , yelling their com- mands as to which rooster they were betting on . At the San Lázaro track ...
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Flying Over the Worlds Highest Mountain Realizes | 127 |
Afghanistan Makes Haste Slowly By MAYNARD Owen WILLIAMS 731 | 163 |
California Trapdoor Spider Performs Engineering Marvels By LEE PASSMORE | 195 |
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