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Alaska has an area of about 586,000 square miles, considerably more than twice that of Texas, the largest state. It has a population of about 54,000, considerably less than three-quarters of that of Nevada, the least populated state. It is shaped, roughly, like the head of a bull turned upside down, one horn being the Alaska Peninsula, the other what is known as the Panhandle, a strip of territory extending down the Canadian coast. Its population, about half white and half Indian, averages less than one for every ten square miles, and is congregated (as much...
...Plata and Riachuelo were flooded to an unusual height. The river front districts of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, were flooded with 3 to 4 feet of water, forcing hundreds of people to abandon their homes. Firemen and police in boats helped to remove families from the flooded area to higher ground. Palermo Park, a quarter of a mile inland, was entirely submerged. Many suburban car lines were held...
Impartial reports from the great industrial area show no slackening of German resistance, although the French have now " dug themselves in " and are able to extract coal from the mine heads in paying quantities. The most ghastly act of sabotage by the Germans was the blowing up of a Belgian train on the Hochfeld Bridge. Nine Belgians were killed outright, and 34 Belgians and nine Germans were wounded, many of whom are not expected to live. German towns in the vicinity of the disaster will be held responsible for damages. Families of dead and wounded were given a legal right...
...area of a square mile, filled with a large number of palaces and courtyards connecting. The Imperial throne-rooms are at the center of the city. All the private precincts are forbidden to the outside world...
...Arbuckle Mountain area of Oklahoma contains perhaps the most complete series of sedimentary rocks from before pre-Cambrian times in America, says Prof. C. E. Decker, of the University of Oklahoma. Folding and erosion have exposed the beds, with great fossil deposits, for study...