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...ure that through reading these stories children and adults will grow a bit in understanding and appreciation of the civilization here before European explorers reached our shores....

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...ants cannot be found on maps. These were excluded unless they were well known to one of the compilers. Also excluded were alternate spellings used by explorers and others before the present orthography was adopted in 1826. Cook, for example, wrote Hawai i as Owy-hee (the Tahitian pronunciation today is Vaihi), Maui as Mowee, O ahu as O-ahoo, Kaua i as Atowai, and Ni ihau a...

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...s. Decades and centuries will pass before the stay at homes learn what the explorers have found." ...Robert L. Forward, The Planetary Society, 1...

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...e Battle of Talas. It proved indispensable as a navigation tool for ocean explorers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Absent those facto...

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...e country. As for fieldwork technique, I have returned to the tradition of explorers - having spent decades teaching methodology of cultural anthropol...

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...or confederation names, not ethnonyms. Those appellations were mistakenly or deliberately turned into "ethnic"or "political" classifications by early explorers or intelligence agents arriving in those lands ahead of the Russian armies and bureaucrats....

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...there are signs that diseases hitherto thought to have been introduced by the white explorers were actually indigenous.1,000-year-old Peruvian mummi... ...white flower; they said these were hailstones given to the god of water." French explorers in the early 17th century reported that the Iroquois I...

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...fields of California. While he might not find service in the military, his training as a physician made him a valuable addition to the ragtag team of explorers. His training as a physician gives us an exacting perspective of the events and people who struck out from more sedate routines to prospect gold in the Californian wilderness. However, he is unprepared to find a cur...

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...k as early as 200 bce, introducing us to a depth and breadth of the rich Hindu landscape. You will be charmed by the historical accounts from western explorers. On a heart warming note, the middle section of this issue introduces our newly published "Hindu Children's Modern Stories, Books One and Two." These books bring the wisdom of the traditional yamas and niyamas to...