Returning from the Pribilofs Islands in the Bering Straits, and cruising along the south shore of the Alaska Peninsula, we met a patrol boat and one of the Federal fish and game wardens. “Why don’t you go to the head of Seal Bay on the north side of Afognak if you want bears?” said he. “Last August we had a job there of blowing out some rocks at the falls so the salmon could get above to the spawning beds.

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Brood X of the seventeen year or periodical locust made its appearance in 1919. In the mountain regions around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, they swarmed at their best and we made a number of trips into the valleys and interviewed them. They began to appear during the latter part of May and were at their height during early June.

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The male locust may “shrill” their chorus, sing their “Pharaoh” song or squawk their alarms, but according to all investigators the females, lacking ears, do not hear and apparently pay no attention to the noisy chatter of their mates. Females of the species, however, do play a part in the economy of our civilization as destructive agents. After mating they are most naturally interested in laying eggs, which in this instance is the cause of all the trouble.

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Oil spills take place when an oil tanker leaks oil into the sea due to the carelessness of the authorities concerned. Oil spills can happen when two countries are waging a war, or when dumpers dump crude oil as a cheap way to dispose their waste oil. It can even happen due to natural calamities like hurricanes, which cause the tankers to turn over resulting in a spill.

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There are many plants in the world that look pretty – but they have medicinal properties that most of us don’t know about. One such plant is jewelweed.

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Certain parts of the world are notoriously afflicted with earthquakes and others are almost entirely free from them. In the eastern hemisphere there is a broad earthquake belt that stretches from the Azores, in an easterly to southeasterly direction, through the Mediterranean region, the Persian Gulf, Northern India, Burma and the East Indies; another which embraces Japan and the other islands east of the Asiatic continent; and a third extending from the Caspian Sea across Turkestan into the heart of Asia.

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According to predictions, the periodical cicadas or “seventeen-year locusts,” those Methusalehs of the insect world, are again scheduled to make their appearance in various parts of the country. No less than thirty broods of this spectacular species have been tabulated by Government and state entomologists who have located them, studied their activities and checked up on their time of appearance over periods of many years. Celebrated on account of the regularity of their appearance in certain localities every seventeen years in the middle and northern States, and every thirteen years in the southern States, they excite wonder and speculation.

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