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The world's largest living lizard, the Komodo monitor remains something of a mystery. Fossils suggest that the ancestors of the huge reptile evolved in Australia fifty or sixty years ago million years ago - long before its present habitat, the volcanic isles of Komodo, Rintja, and Padar, and a part of Flores, rose from the sea. How did the dragon reach these islands some 500 miles off northwest Australia?

James A. Kern, National Geographic

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The Seminoles occupied good farmlands coveted by the settlers, so they were maneuvered into one treaty after another to restrict them to unwanted land, and to force them ultimately out of the state. There were less than 4,000 of them, including no more than 1,400 warriors, but they refused to move. The seven-year conflicted that resulted was the most costly Indian war ever fought by the United States. Such chiefs such as Osceola, Coacoochie, and Billy Bowlegs won the admiration, if not the mercy, of their foes. After the army withdrew in 1842, the Government, still trying to get the Indians out, harried them into the third Seminole war in 1855. This ended in 1858, leaving only about 150 Indians in Florida, stripped of everything except their independence. They hid in inaccessible, unpopulated areas.

Louis Capron, National Geographic

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A shrine existed at Chartres, as I noted,before the birth of Mary herself. The cathedral rests upon the shrine of a well which legend claims was venerated by the Druids before Caesar's conquest of Gaul.

Kenneth MacLeish, National Geographic

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So if genes don’t explain most cases, how about the environment? Several environmental factors have been linked to Parkinson’s, which has been shown to occur at higher-than-expected rates in, for instance, people who were prisoners of war in World War II. There is also a higher rate in people who live on farms or who drink well water, probably because of exposure to certain pesticides.

Robin Marantz Henig, Did Grief Give Him Parkinson's?

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In this nation's 200th winter, with its costly fuel combustion in furnaces and engines at an alarming pace, it may seem odd to suggest that the United States in not confronted with an energy shortage.

Gilbert Grosvenor, National Geographic

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This is a harsh, dry, bitter place, lonely as a dream. But I like it. I know that I could live here if I wanted to.

Edward Abbey, National Geographic

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Even a detailed representation of an object is not always a true characterization. Rivers and lakes can enlarge in size during spring flooding or shrink during a drought. The boundary of a city changes as the city grows. Users of GIS data must never forget that the data they collect and use will contain flaws and that the user has an ethical and legal responsibility to ensure that the data used for a particular purpose are appropriate for the task.

Maribeth H. Price, Mastering ArcGis Pro

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Things are seldom what they seem in this desert beneath the waves, a magical world of marine Houdinis where survival can hinge on a knack for deception.

Eugenie Clark, National Geographic

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Above all, the men warn, the boys must not divulge to women and children what they see and hear inside men's houses

Gillian Gillson, National Geographic

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In 2024, AB InBev made $60 billion and produced 15 billion gallons of beer. But today, for the first time, after thousands of years of uninterrupted success, the nearly trillion-dollar beer industry is in decline. In beer-drinking epicenters like Belgium and Australia, consumption has gone down by 50 percent in the past half century. Beer consumption in the United States is down 25 percent since 1980; in 2023, Americans bought less beer than in any other year this century

Adam Rogers, National Geographic

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Mercifully, my three-day trek over the 3,739-foot pass was made under blue skies, my only suffering a sunburn acquired as I crossed snowfields near the summit in shorts and a T-shirt. But imagine the scene as it was 85 years ago in winter: 70 feet of snow; minus 55-degree temperature; a bitter wind plus blinding fog and a blizzard.

Bill Richards, National Geographic

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We are very tired. We can't live like this much longer.

Rick Gore, National Geographic

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Sleek, powerful, and fearless, they rule the seas. With swift thrusts of their tails they leap from the water or chase down their prey. Once creatures of mystery seen as bloodthirsty man-eaters, killer whales have been found to be highly social, intelligent, and even gentle animals.

Erich Hoyt, National Geographic

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The Romans, who called the river Durius, weren't welcomed by the local population. In 133 B. C Numantia, north of modern Soria, withstood Rome's legions for many months. Rather than submit, legend holds, the people burned Numantia to the ground and committed mass suicide.

Marion Kaplan, National Geographic

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As recently as 15 years ago, Baghdad was patched with shantytowns. The sanitation facilities were antiquated, most of the roads unpaved. There was not a single first-class hotel in the city. Drained of its passions, Baghdad had only its name with which to evoke the sweetness of Arabian nights. Elsewhere in Iraq, oil was being drawn from in-ground reserves

William S. Ellis, National Geographic

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Soviet experts taught Mongolians to irrigate and strip-crop to preserve soils that in places is as rich as the Ukraine's.

Thomas B. Allen, National Geographic

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We don't accept any government money, and we don't want any. We ask only to be left alone.

Tom Porter, National Geographic