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This nOde
last updated November 9th, 2002 and is permanently morphing...
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January 27, 1888
The National Geographic
begins publication in October at Washington, D.C., where the National Geographic
Society is founded by
Alexander
Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard who founded the
magazine Science with Bell 5 years ago. The new quarterly will begin monthly
publication in 1896, publish its first color plates in 1906, and in February
1910 will adopt a yellow-and-white cover.
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video documentary _National
Geographic: Strange Creatures Of The Night_ (vhs/ntsc)

-
Minnesota great horned
owls
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bioluminescent underwater creatures
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cave dwellers - crustaceans
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salamanders
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texas blind salamander
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Tanzania - hyena
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hyena is more closely
related to cats than dogs
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hunting baby
rhinos
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Texas Bracken cave -
bats
from mexico
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Robert Galombos - Harvard students
- sound studies of bats
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revelation of how bats catch
prey - not with mouth by with wings
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echolocation for blind man
as a musical entity, National
Geographic released a double sided flexi 10" called _Spacesounds_
track - _From
Sun
Gods To Science_
from the liner notes:
To show how ancient people
regarded the heavens, we have reconstructed an authentic
Egyptian
hymn to the sun god Ra. It is followed by present day
Sioux
Indians in their traditional song and
dance
to the sun. then the narrator tells us about
Johannes
Kepler, a giant of early astronomy who made mathematical computations
of the orbital speed of each planet known in his
time.
although kepler could hear his planetary
harmonies
only in his mind, we hear these rhythms of
Mercury,
Venus, Earth, and the other planets in the "voice" of a Princeton University
computer-sound synthesizer, band 1 ends with ocean
waves
and the cries of seagulls -- a preview of solar system sounds we hear next.
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