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Friday, April 2, 2010. Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones. Fossils from Madagascar include abelisaurs and titanosaurs.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Carte de la Mer Mediterranee. As a sea around which some of the most ancient human civilizations w.
Monday, February 23, 2009. South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. The Muisca were the main indigenous civilization in what i.
Thursday, April 8, 2010. In Greek mythology, Tiresias was a blind prophet of Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo; Tiresias participated fully in seven generations at Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus himself. Tiresias appears as the name of a recurring character in several stories and Greek tragedies concerning the legendary history o.
Monday, February 23, 2009. Saturday, December 6, 2008. By her own choice, Maria Sibylla Merian left no record of her private life. Her name is not generally encountered in the United States outside the context of natural science, and there are understandably fewer of her published works and watercolors in public or private collections in this country than in Europe. From my youth onwards I have been concerned with the study of insects, in which I began with silk-worms in my native city.
Thursday, March 19, 2009. The Earliest Acquirable, Printed Map of Arabia. Printed from two plates and joined at centerfold as usual. Saturday, November 8, 2008. Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, three of which would be of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science. The first is the astronomical treatise now known as the Alma.
Saturday, August 29, 2009. A clear channel is needed for the barges and other vessels that make the main stem Mississippi one of the g.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Carte de la Mer Mediterranee. As a sea around which some of the most ancient human civilizations w.
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Monday, February 23, 2009. South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. The Muisca were the main indigenous civilization in what i.