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Eric Bentley

"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."

Eric Bentley, English Critic
Geography, Biography
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"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."

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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."

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"Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator
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"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."

Ada Louise Huxtable, American Critic
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"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator
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"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."

Francis Parkman, American Historian
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"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."

Horace Porter, American Soldier
Geography, England, Ignorance, Providence, Smile
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"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator
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"Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch."

Raymond Sokolov, American Journalist
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"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator
Geography, America, Circumstances, Man
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"It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses."

Helge Ingstad, Norwegian Explorer
Geography, Fishermen, Houses, Old

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