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[2016]
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"Athens, Greece, is best known for the Parthenon, the ruins of an ancient temple completed in 438 BC to honor the goddess Athena. But what many people don't know is that it only served as a temple for a couple hundred years. It then became a church, then a mosque, and by the end of the 1600s served as a storehouse for munitions. When an enemy army fired hundreds of cannon balls at the Acropolis, one directly hit the Parthenon. Much of the sculpture...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 27
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l’Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition...
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[2022]
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Introduction: Bears Ears and a Deep Map of Place
1. Hunter- Gatherers and Deep Time
2. From Basketmakers to Ancestral Puebloans, AD 50-1150
3. Into the Cliffs, 1150-1300
4. Navajos, Utes, and Canyon Exploration, 1300-1859
5. "The Fearing Time" and MappingAncient America, 1860-1875
6. "We Thank Thee, Oh God"
7. Cowboy Archaeology , a Lady Botanist, a Failed Indian Reservation, andthe Antiquities Act, 1891-1906
8. The US Forest Service , Natural Bridges,...