The United States Antarctic Program (USAP) provides a revealing analogy to American spaceflight owing to its common historical origin, similar base in Cold War national security and diplomacy, and reciprocal influence of scientific research and technology development associated with Antarctica and outer ...
"Antarcticas of the Imagination: American Authors Explore the Last Continent, 1818-1982" examines the literary use of Antarctic exploration, or how fiction transforms science into symbol. I follow the trail of Americans' vaunted attachment to exploring, describing and settling land--an imperial trilo...
The Hypothesis was developed and tested in the fields of education, psychology, and literary criticism... JA Perry - 《Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology》 被引量: 18发表: 2010年 Comments on Udvardy's biogeographical realm Antarctica As a contribution to UNESCO''s ...
He is a veteran of two long-duration stays aboard the International Space Station, one space shuttle mission and a six-week expedition to find meteorites in Antarctica. As of 2018, at age 63, he is NASA's oldest active astronaut. Birthplace: Silverton, Oregon, USA Joseph P. Allen Age: ...
America's Greatest Voyage of Discovery: He Was the American Naval Officer in Charge of One of the Most Successful Exploration Expeditions of All Time. He Was Revered by Darwin and Seen as Cook's Equal. but in Spite of His Achievements, Charles Wilkes Has Fallen into Obscurity. Best-Selling...
is an unprecedented exploration of autism from the point of view of autistic people themselves. Four-year-old Violet, teenaged Nicholas and adult Paula occupy different positions on the autism spectrum, but they are all at pivotal moments in their lives. How they and the people around them wor...
But exploration can be deeply alienating as well. Admiral Richard Byrd made this clear, certainly, in 1938, when he publishedAlone, a memoir of a solitary winter he spent gathering weather data in Antarctica. Byrd went south hoping “to taste peace and quiet long enough to know how good the...
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Arctic & Antarctica Twila Moon / National Snow And Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Arctic - Arctic "report card" points to rapid and dramatic impacts of climate change This past summer in the Arctic was the warmest since 1900, contributing to disasters across the wider region, including flooding in...
areas in the Americas by 1945 included the Bermuda, Jamaica, the Windward and Leeward Islands, Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago, the Bahamas, British Guiana, and British Honduras. This is excluding the contested areas of the Falklands Islands and a short-lived claim to a section of Antarctica. ...