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There's No Place Like Nome for the Cold War Meltdown
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"Siberia: 164 Miles," reads the signpost outside the Nugget Inn
in this roistering old gold-mining town (population 4,300) pitched on
the westernmost edge of North America. Yet for the past four
decades, Siberia might as well have been 164 light years from here.
Mother Russia lay tantalizingly close, just over the pale horizon,
but she was sealed off behind a political ice curtain. People here
could only gaze across the floes, and wonder.
All travel between the Soviet Union and Alaska through the
so-called "back door" was strictly forbidden during the Cold War.
Occasionally a foolhardy ...
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THOMAS HARRIOT SCHOLAR TO DELIVER VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY LECTURE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...present the final lecture in the 2008-09 Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences' Voyages of...Carolina University. Clucas will present the Thomas Harriot Lecture, discussing "Thomas Harriot: New Worlds of an Elizabethan Scientist...
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Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion
; Robert Fox, ed. Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science...during the past half-century, Thomas Harriot remains an enigmatic figure...first ten years of the annual Thomas Harriot Lecture at Oxford, which began...
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Quiet English genius who was first to map the moon; Lunar landscape: One of Harriot's maps Modest: Thomas Harriot.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...the man who gave us the potato. Thomas Harriot beat Galileo in showing the world...his etchings in December 1609. Harriot had already drawn and plotted his...archives in West Sussex chronicle Harriot's fascination with the moon and...
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FROM STROLLING PLAYER TO BANKER-DUCHESS.(Harriot Mellon, Duchess of St Albans)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...banker and duchess. Harriot was cartooned mercilessly...wife and widow of Thomas Coutts, the royal...drunken idlers. When Harriot was five years old...in the company, Thomas Entwisle, and he...acting company of Thomas Bibby, which toured...the age of ten, Harriot made her debut as...
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Robert Fox speaks at East Carolina U. 'Voyages of Discovery' lecture
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...Robert Fox, a distinguished Harriot scholar from Oxford University...Hendrix Theater to give a lecture on Thomas Harriot, the man that the College of...in Oriel, where he does annual Thomas Harriot lectures. Oriel College will...
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16TH-CENTURY TOUR GUIDE GIVES FRESH LOOK ON BANKS' HISTORY.(CAROLINA COAST)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...Hodson, the actor who portrays Thomas Harriot. Hodson's character leads ``A Festival Walk With Thomas Harriot,'' a project funded by the...Nick Hodsdon give a portrayal of Thomas Harriot on weekends. Graphic WALK BACK...
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EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY SURGEON TO GIVE FIRST TALK IN VOYAGES LECTURE SERIES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Carolina Lecture in the 2008-2009 Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences...intellectual accomplishments of Thomas Harriot. Alan White, dean of the Harriot...history and ECU benefactor. The Thomas Harriot Lecture will be presented on April...
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English astronomer beat Galileo in viewing moon through a telescope, experts claim.
News Wire article from: Asian News International
; ...to claim that their creator - Thomas Harriot - beat Galileo to become the first...Oxford University, said that Harriot's composite drawing of the moon...birth of modern cartography". "Thomas Harriot was not only the first person...
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ENGLISH ASTRONOMER BEAT GALILEO IN VIEWING MOON THROUGH A TELESCOPE, EXPERTS CLAIM
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...to claim that their creator - Thomas Harriot - beat Galileo to become the first...Oxford University, said that Harriot's composite drawing of the moon...birth of modern cartography". "Thomas Harriot was not only the first person...
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Sir William Lower (1570-1615).(Commons Sense)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...member of Northumberland's household, Thomas Harriot, the pre-eminent scientist of Jacobean England. Harriot was an authority on mathematics, physics...fascinated by astronomy in particular. Since Harriot lived in London, while Lower spent most...
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