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Environment: LA River
Nature & Environment

Environment: LA River

...LA River A short introduction to this album. Who Killed the LA River? The worst floods in the history of Los Angeles. How the river was contained and its flood plain became part of the city. Rediscovering the LA River The forgotten part of Los Angeles. A journey through the unused public land that lines the river today. LA: Chinatown Yard Claiming the last vast space in...
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John C Murray
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John C Murray

John C. Murray is a professor of English literature at Curry College. He specializes in Victorian studies. His publications include Technologies of Power in the Victorian Period: Print Culture, Human Labor, and New Modes of Critique in Charles Dickens’s Hard Times, Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley, and George Eliot’s Felix Holt. He currently serves as assistant editor of Book Reviews at The British Society for Literature and Science website.
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Darwin explores the Sierra de la Ventana
History & The Arts

Darwin explores the Sierra de la Ventana

...la Ventana...In 1832, Charles Darwin explored South America. He recorded his experiences in The Voyage of The Beagle, from which this is an extract. I hired a Gaucho to accompany me on my ride to Buenos Ayres, though with some difficulty, as the father of one man was afraid to let him go, and another, who seemed willing, was described to me as so fearful, that I was...
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Darwin crosses the Sierra de la Ventana
History & The Arts

Darwin crosses the Sierra de la Ventana

...la Ventana - but finds the vista less than thrilling...In 1832, Charles Darwin explored South America. He recorded his experiences in The Voyage of The Beagle, from which this is an extract. The dew, which in the early part of the night wetted the saddle-cloths under which we slept, was in the morning frozen. The plain, though appearing horizontal, had insensibly sloped...
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La historia del español en unos seis minutos
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La historia del español en unos seis minutos

...la fascinante historia del español y sus hablantes y cómo ha evolucionado desde sus orígenes hasta convertirse en una lengua global hablada. También podrás escuchar el español tal y como se hablaba a lo largo de su historia. ¡Adelante! Antes de los Romanos Transcript Latín por todas partes Transcript Influencias germánicas y árabes en el español Transcript El...
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