Great Biographies, Volume 1Reader's Digest Association, 1987 - 633 pages Biographies of 4 great individuals in one volume. Includes Charles Lindbergh, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Edison, and Hans Christian Andersen. |
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Page 127
Barbara J. Morgan. feet across ; but a little way down it bellied out , making a vast cave . The walls changed from blue to an emerald green , the color of sea ice . It must have been several hundred feet deep . Good luck had carried me ...
Barbara J. Morgan. feet across ; but a little way down it bellied out , making a vast cave . The walls changed from blue to an emerald green , the color of sea ice . It must have been several hundred feet deep . Good luck had carried me ...
Page 526
... feet below the surface the workmen came upon the remains of a wall . Schliemann was excited . By sunset they had uncovered the foundations of a building sixty feet long and forty feet wide . The next day , with eleven more workmen , he ...
... feet below the surface the workmen came upon the remains of a wall . Schliemann was excited . By sunset they had uncovered the foundations of a building sixty feet long and forty feet wide . The next day , with eleven more workmen , he ...
Page 537
... feet thick , as hard as stone , and above this again were the huge fortification walls , five feet broad and twenty feet high . None of the workmen had noticed it . He turned to Sophia , beside him , and said , “ You must go at once and ...
... feet thick , as hard as stone , and above this again were the huge fortification walls , five feet broad and twenty feet high . None of the workmen had noticed it . He turned to Sophia , beside him , and said , “ You must go at once and ...
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