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American Geographical Society

San Francisco Chronicle | 2 weeks ago

'The Routes of Man,' by Ted Conover

...squashed creature, but where the human project may well be heading. Peter Lewis is an editor at the American Geographical Society. E-mail him at books@sfchronicle.com. The Routes of...

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

Chauncy Harris

...(1957) President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (1962) Councilor of the American Geographical Society from 1961-1974 Secretary-general and...

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Wikipedia | 1 month ago

Mexico Indigena

...is the controversial prototype project of the Bowman Expeditions, an initiative of the American Geographical Society to organize international teams of geographers to research potentially...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Charles Patrick Daly

...of the New York State Assembly, Chief Justice of the New York Court of Common Pleas, president of the American Geographical Society, and an author of several books. The Daly ancestors...

"Always many questions, and they pass." Coulombe has a question of his own: "Why the hell is the rest of Canada on our back?" "ALMOST 40 PER CENT of the world's asbestos production is concentrated in a narrow belt of serpentinized intrusive rocks in southern Quebec," wrote W. Gillies in the American Geographical Society's Geographical Review in 1967. "The `Serpentine Belt' stretched northeastward from the Vermont border in an arc parallel to the structural trend of the Appalachian system, of which it is a part. ... Asbestos mining, since its inception in 1877, has been concentrated in the central part of the belt, between the transverse valleys of the St. Francis and Chaudiere Rivers."

Meet Quebec's 'Mr. Asbestos' thestar.com | 2 months ago

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Richard Nolte

...he viewed Nolte as an Arabist. Nolte served as the chairman of the American Geographical Society from 1988 until 1996. The American Geographical Society, founded in 1851, provides...

thestar.com | 2 months ago

Meet Quebec's 'Mr. Asbestos'

...is concentrated in a narrow belt of serpentinized intrusive rocks in southern Quebec," wrote W. Gillies in the American Geographical Society's Geographical Review in 1967. "The...

San Francisco Chronicle | 2 months ago

'The Fourth Part of the World,' by Toby Lester

...the alchemy of Waldseemuller's map remains safely, thankfully out of reach. Peter Lewis is an editor at the American Geographical Society. E-mail him at books@sfchronicle.com. The...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Laurence McKinley Gould

...Gould received upon his return included a Congressional Gold Medal, the 1930 David Livingstone Gold Medal of the American Geographical Society, and a Medal of the Mayor's Committee of the...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

John Carrier Weaver

...from the University of Wisconsin. He was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. He was on the staff of the American Geographical Society from 1940-1942, was a researcher for the...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

American Geographical Society

The American Geographical Society (AGS ) is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City. Most fellows of the society are Americans , but among them have...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Audubon Terrace

...listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The original residents of Audubon Terrace included the American Geographical Society, the American Numismatic Society, the Museum of...

Wikipedia | 3 months ago

Divie Bethune McCartee

...covered Asiatic history , linguistics , natural science, medicine and politics in the publications of the American Geographical Society , the American Oriental Society and other...