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Show How Lindbergh Teaches Geography The projected flight of the Lindberghs Lind-berghs to Japan and China arouses considerable interest, and will make a few citizens check up a bit on their knowledge of geography. For example, it will seem strange to some that the flying colonel may leave New York, flying almost due north to Greenland, and skirt to the east of the North pole on his way to Japan! Or, again, that a course slightly northwest, towards Hudson Bay, is being considered. con-sidered. It wiU pay us to get a new slant on the shape of the world, and try to plot courses on a round globe instead of a flat map. |