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- Anthropology
Suddenly Civilized: New finds push back Americas’ first society
The earliest known civilization in the Americas appears to have emerged about 5,000 years ago in what's now Peru.
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Byrd Flight
Produced by the National Science Foundation, this Web site commemorates explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd’s historic flight to the South Pole about 75 years ago. Chronicling how aircraft make scientific research in polar regions possible, the site contains an overview of Byrd’s accomplishments. It also features a first-person account of a commemorative flight that recently retraced […]
- Humans
From the December 29, 1934, issue
A young Crater Lake in Oregon, the internal structure of chromosomes, and a revolutionary method of electric power transmission.
