Word: greenland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Support from Greenland. What first caused Thalbitzer's doubt to waver was his study of the smaller Kingigtorssauq rune-stone discovered in 1823 near Upernavik in northern Greenland. The Greenland Stone is undoubtedly genuine, and its runes have peculiarities like those that cast doubt on the Kensington Stone...
...repeats a theory developed by Hjalmar R. Holand, a Norwegian-American who has long championed the Kensington Stone. In 1356, according to Holand, King Magnus Ericksson of Sweden and Norway sent an expedition under Powell Knutsson to see what had happened to the Norse colonies in Greenland. When they found that the colonists were dead or had moved elsewhere, Knutsson's Norsemen pushed farther west. Eventually they reached Hudson Bay, and then the Great Lakes and Minnesota...
...suspect that since the last major ice age the earth's climate grew gradually warmer until about 5,000 B.C. Then the cold came again, and the glaciers reached a secondary peak about the time of Christ. Again the climate grew warm, allowing Scandinavians to live happily in Greenland. Then came another cold period and the Greenland Norse disappeared...
...nearby fronts. At war's peak, we were printing some 834,000 overseas copies at 19 places for distribution to 180 countries and possessions. Among the 19: Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Teheran and Sydney. Where transport problems were worst, as in Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, Burma and the Pacific, we sent out pocket-sized "Pony" editions. Smallest of all was the Navy V-Mail Edition (4¼ in. by 5¼ in.). At war's end, all these editions were consolidated into the present four international editions now serving 1,419,000 readers outside...
...Weather Wing), ready to leap at a moment's notice into action against an enemy invader. The signal they are waiting for is a speck on a radarscope, picked up perhaps in Newfoundland or on a ship at sea. If the Russians come over the pole or Greenland (the shortest route), interceptors from New England bases will be first in the air. If they come over the Atlantic, McGuire will "scramble" to meet them...