Iquitos
Iquitos , city (1993 pop. 252,312), capital of Loreto dept., NE Peru, on the Amazon River, c.2,300 mi (3,700 km) from the Amazon's mouth. It is the farthest inland port of any considerable size in the world. With the boom in wild rubber at the beginning of the 20th cent. the city gained prominence, but it declined after the collapse of the market. Today coffee, cotton, timber, balatá, and tagua nuts, as well as rubber, are exported. There is launch service some distance up the Marañón and Ucayali rivers and air service to the highlands, but the Andes Mts. are so formidable a barrier to the transport of most commercial goods that Iquitos has been oriented toward the Atlantic rather than the Pacific. The city was founded in 1863.
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William Barton Rogers and the idea of MIT.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2009; 455 words
; 9780801890338 William Barton Rogers and the idea of MIT. Angulo, A. J. Johns Hopkins U. Press...social foundations, Winthrop U.) provides a biography of William Barton Rogers (1804-1882), educational reformer, scientist, and conceptual...
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Dishonorable degrees.(CENTURY marks)(William Barton Rogers and Phyllis Schlafly)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 6/17/2008; 657 words
; DISHONORABLE DEGREES: Willam Barton Rogers, founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that the granting of honorary degrees is "literary almsgiving...
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THE MEANING OF COURAGE TOYA MITCHELL WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS SCHOOL TEACHER: KELLEY CURELY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/24/2004; 329 words
; "My grandparents made my neighborhood a better place to live." Courage is standing up for what you believe in. It is daring to be different even if people make fun of you. I know some of my family members showed great courage. All the trouble started 30 years ago. My grandma is white, and my
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Tech School
Magazine article from: Connection, New England's Journal of Higher Education; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...physician, and MIT founder, William Barton Rogers was a professor of natural philosophy and chemistry at William and Mary and later at the University...survey of Virginia. In 1849, William Barton Rogers, already a Bostonian in outlook...
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surveying nature: environmental dimensions of VIRGINIA'S FIRST SCIENTIFIC SURVEY, 1835-1842
Magazine article from: Environmental History; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...diffuse fertility over the hills and plains." William Barton Rogers, 18341 IN 1837, HEZEKIAH DAGGS, a farmer from...letter to Virginia's foremost natural philosopher, William Barton Rogers. "I take the earliest opportunity of sending you...
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FOR STRICKEN CHILDREN, SMALL PATCHES OF WARMTH AND LOVE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/27/2004; ; 674 words
; ...economics teacher at Hyde Park's William Barton Rogers Middle School, Lewis expanded...13, a sixth-grader at William Barton Rogers, said she thinks the program...said. Though closing shop at William Barton Rogers, Lewis has hopes of reviving...
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Partners in geology, brothers in frustration
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Virginia and Pennsylvania.3 Their state geologists, William Barton Rogers and Henry Darwin Rogers, were scholars with stellar...interests. As professional scientists, Henry and William Rogers chafed under these demands.4 They could not, however...
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GEOGRAPHIC POINTS OF HIGH AND LOW INTEREST.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 11/30/2001; 700+ words
; ...Rogers is located in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area. Not...it's named after a man named Rogers - not the children's favorite...his own neighborhood, but Dr. William Barton Rogers, Virginia's first state geologist...
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Found murdered and buried in shallow grave - Schoolmates recall 'loud, funny' friend.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 11/4/1999; ; 625 words
; ...tragically. Classmates at the William Barton Rogers Middle School in Hyde Park recalled...a big fan of the Wu Tang Clan. Rogers School Principal Michael McCarthy...murder. "It's a member of the Rogers School family. As a staff, we...
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Students revel in Alvin Ailey dance education.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 5/10/2007; 700+ words
; ...outlining the auditorium walls at William Barton Rogers Middle School in Boston. Below...causal relationship). Here at Rogers Middle School in the Hyde Park...none of whom teach regularly at Rogers. With 25 percent of the students...
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William Barton Rogers
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Barton Rogers 1804-82, American geologist...Philadelphia, grad. William and Mary, 1822. He was professor of geology at William and Mary (1828-35) and...Virginia geological survey. Rogers was the founder of the Massachusetts...
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Rogers, Henry Darwin
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
ROGERS, HENRY DARWIN ( b . Philadelphia...Glasgow, Scotland, 29 May 1866) and ROGERS, WILLIAM BARTON ( b . Philadelphia, 7 December 1804...30 May 1882) geology . Henry and William Rogers, along with their brothers James...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...leadership of the geologist brothers Henry Darwin Rogers and William Barton Rogers, among others, the AAAS was voted into existence...geologist Benjamin Silliman, the meteorologist William Redfield, the zoologist and geologist Louis Agassiz...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...practical industrial problem solving. William Barton Rogers, a distinguished geologist and...available through reclamation. Rogers became president of the institution...1866 the new building designed by William Preston was completed on the Back...
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Emmons, Ebenezer
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Hall at first, agreed. Mather disagreed, as did William and Henry Barton Rogers, whose observations of the merging of the flat...Taconic system came under direct attack from the Rogers brothers, who maintained that the entire folded...
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