`` We '' were Bill Garrett of the National Geographic Illustrations Staff, whose three cameras and eight lenses made him look as formidable as any fighting man we met ; ;

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

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* National Geographic: Fear of Spiders rooted in Evolution

Using Nevado Mismi, which in 2001 was labeled by the National Geographic Society as the Amazon's source, these scientists made new calculations of the Amazon's length.

* National Geographic Society, Alton Biggs, Lucy Daniel, Edward Ortleb, Peter Rillero, Dinah Zike.

* Cline, Eric H. ( 2007 ), From Eden to Exile: Unravelling Mysteries of the Bible, National Geographic Society, ISBN 978-1-4262-0084-7

Atlanta ’ s tree coverage does not go unnoticed — it was the main reason cited by ‘‘ National Geographic ’’ in naming Atlanta a " Place of a Lifetime.

National Geographic Society ( 2004 ) ISBN 0-7922-7313-3

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( 1957, 1970, 2001, 2007 ) The Heavens ( 1970 ), Cartographic Division of the National Geographic Society ( NGS ), Washington, D. C., U. S. A., two sided large map chart depicting the constellations of the heavens ; as special supplement to the August 1970 issue of National Geographic.

In 2003 Lance Milbrand stayed on the island for 41 days on a National Geographic Society expedition, recording his adventure in video, photos, and a written diary ( see links below ).

In 1968 the Casiquiare was navigated by an SRN6 hovercraft during a National Geographic expedition.

McCarry was editor-at-large for National Geographic and has contributed pieces to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other national publications.

* Isles of the Caribbean ( National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, 1980, co-author )

* From the Field: A Collection of Writings from National Geographic ( 1997, editor )

National Geographic Traveler ranked Columbus 11th on its historic destinations list in late 2008, describing the city as " authentic, unique, and unspoiled.

National Geographic Magazine once devoted an entire article to the town's architecture.

Men, Ships and the Sea ( National Geographic Society )

Most of the organisms collected were simple, soft-shelled foraminifera ( 432 species according to National Geographic ), with four of the others representing species of the complex, multi-chambered genera Leptohalysis and Reophax.

* John Roach, " Delphic Oracle's Lips May Have Been Loosened by Gas Vapors " in National Geographic news, August 2001

This finding was covered by National Geographic and the New York Times.

* Israel National News.

Traveling in the same social circles, the two men engaged in a 20-year mutual vendetta, as described by the Daily News in 1998: " They crossed paths often, in the midtown watering holes and at National Cartoonists Society banquets, and the city's gossip columns were full of their snarling public donnybrooks.

See, e. g., Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, ( giving federal courts the authority to fashion common law rules with respect to issues of federal power, in this case negotiable instruments backed by the federal government ); see also International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U. S. 215 ( 1918 ) ( creating a cause of action for misappropriation of " hot news " that lacks any statutory grounding, but that is one of the handful of federal common law actions that survives today ); National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc., 105 F. 3d 841, 843-44, 853 ( 2d Cir.

In U. S. News & World Report's annual " America's Best Colleges List ", the university has been ranked consistently among the " Best National Universities – Top Schools ".

At that point, " Liebowitz promptly orchestrated the merger of All-American and Detective Comics into National Comics ... Next he took charge of organizing National Comics, self-distributorship Independent News, and their affiliated firms into a single corporate entity, National Periodical Publications ".

For several years, U. S. News & World Report, the QS World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities have ranked MIT's School of Engineering first, as did the 1995 National Research Council report.

For his efforts, The Sporting News named Clemente its National League Player of the Month.

" National Library of Australia News 15. 7 ( April 2005 ).

* Ancient Fertile Crescent Almost Gone, Satellite Images Show-from National Geographic News, May 18, 2001

Hiram's ranking in the 2011 edition of U. S. News Best Colleges is 152 in the category of National Liberal Arts Colleges.

Providing degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels, SAIC has been recognized by U. S. News & World Report as one of the top graduate art programs in the nation, as well as by Columbia University's National Arts Journalism survey as the most influential art school in the United States.

UPI reporters and photographers have won ten Pulitzer Prizes: Russell Jones ( International Reporting, 1957 ), Andrew Lopez ( News Photography, 1960 ), Yasushi Nagao ( News Photography, 1961 ), Merriman Smith ( National Reporting, 1964 ), Kyoichi Sawada ( News Photography, 1966 ), Toshio Sakai ( Feature Photography, 1968 ), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers ( National Reporting, 1971 ), and David Hume Kennerly ( Feature Photography, 1972 ).

News sources indicated that of the 30 camps that were target, 13 were controlled by ULFA, 12 camps by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland ( NDFB ), and 5 camps controlled by the Kamatapur Liberation Organisation ( KLO ).

The 2013 edition of US News & World Reports Best Colleges ranked Lehigh in its " Most Selective " admissions category and 38th in the " National Universities ( Doctoral )" category.

Wu Shaozu, an official from China's National Sports Commission, was at this time quoted in an interview with U. S. News & World Report that as many as 100 million may have taken up Falun Gong and other forms of qigong.

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* In 1999, he ranked number 7 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, the highest-ranking National League pitcher.

High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city.

National Maritime Day proclamation by John A. Notte, Jr., Governor

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

Burlington aviator John J. Burns suggested the parade ground southwest of Fort Ethan Allen, and soon a dozen hastily-summoned National Guard pilots were bringing their wide-winged `` Jenny '' and DeHaviland two-seaters to rest on the frozen sod of the military base.

John Dickinson and Benjamin Franklin's handwritten drafts of the Articles of Confederation are housed at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

* Bell, John D. Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899 – 1923 ( 1923 )

The award has been shared twice: once by Butch Metzger and Pat Zachry of the National League in 1976 ; and once by John Castino and Alfredo Griffin of the American League in 1979.

In the 1890s, a powerful and innovative National League Orioles squad included several future Hall of Famers, such as " Wee " Willie Keeler, Wilbert Robinson, Hughie Jennings, Peter Griffin and John McGraw.

Several collectors have catalogued the songs including John Meredith whose recording in the 1950s became the basis of the collection in the National Library of Australia.

The General Social Survey from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago and the Saguaro Seminar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University are examples of national community development in the United States.

It was addressed by Labour MPs Jon Trickett, Emily Thornberry, John McDonnell ( politician ) | John McDonnell, Michael Meacher, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, and Elfyn Llwyd of Plaid Cymru and Angus MacNeil of the Scottish National Party.

He was featured alongside Chevy Chase and John Belushi in the Off-Broadway revue National Lampoon's Lemmings.

In the 1870s John A. Macdonald's National Policy was implemented, creating a system of protective tariffs around the new nation.

In 1884 Eckert sold the company to John H. Patterson, who renamed the company the National Cash Register Company and improved the cash register by adding a paper roll to record sales transactions, thereby creating the receipt.

* Paige, John C. The Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Park Service, 1933-1942: An Administrative History.

He has received various other awards including the Turing Award, the National Medal of Science, the John von Neumann Medal, and the Kyoto Prize.

All three principal types of resonator guitars were invented by the Slovak-American John Dopyera ( 1893 – 1988 ) for the National and Dobro ( Dopyera Brothers ) companies.

Prince Eugene's Italian manuscript had been presented to him in 1713 by John Frederick Cramer ; and was transferred to the Austrian National Library in Vienna in 1738 with the rest of his library.

In 1963, Olivier directed Peter O ' Toole as Hamlet in the inaugural performance of the newly formed National Theatre ; critics found resonance between O ' Toole's Hamlet and John Osborne's hero, Jimmy Porter, from Look Back in Anger.

* Araujo, Robert John, “ The UN Declaration on Human Cloning: a survey and assessment of the debate ,” 7 The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 129-149 ( 2007 ).

* National Championship in 1932, led by three-time All-American player and Indiana native John Wooden.

) The John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor retraces the history of " America's Hardest-Working River ', the Blackstone.

His first major recognition came with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado ; his new stature led to his selection as chief architect for the John F. Kennedy Library in Massachusetts.