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...captain on Jefferson's authority), headed westward from St. Louis at the head of a 43-man "Corps of Discovery." Their objective was to explore the newly acquired territory of the Louisiana Purchase and find a route from the Missouri to the Columbia River, over which the rich fur trade of the Northwest might be diverted from British Canada to the U.S. . Eighteen months later -on Nov. 15, 1805- they reached the Pacific Ocean. This month Lewiston, Idaho, and cities of the Northwest in the valleys of the Clearwater, Snake and Columbia Rivers, are observing the 150th anniversary...
...fur that warms a monarch, warmed
...more temperamental or more troublesome under stress than sleek, slight Major Salah Salem. One of the original handful who plotted the overthrow of fat, frolicsome King Farouk, Salem had the lithe grace and purring charm of a cat, and like a cat, he could spit venomously if his fur was stroked the wrong...
...like Killer Whale were sometimes pictured with their entrails revealed to show lesser animals which they had swallowed. Even the massive totem poles were meant as seriously as medieval coats of arms to display family crests and famous ancestors. Such gods as Bear and Wolf might be decorated with fur and shredded cedar-bark wigs. Other masks were provided with movable lower jaws or a concealed inside image...
Stewed Fruit. Irked by this Pakhtoon-foolery, Pakistan last week effectively closed the historic Khyber Pass, through which passes 80% of Afghanistan's external trade, including shipments to the U.S. of pistachio nuts, wool, and karakul fur (which becomes "Persian lamb" on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue). At the pass, Pakistani customs stopped grape, peach and pomegranate-laden trucks and told them to await clearance from Karachi-which, they blandly confided, would "take some time." While the truckers fretted, the fruit rotted...