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Is the Amazon the World’s Longest River?
For centuries, geographers have asked: Is the Amazon the world’s longest river? The […]
Author: tommurphy1951
Thomas Murphy is a retired American journalist living in Brazil. He is married and has two adult children. He is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and the author of six plays, two novels and dozens of magazine articles and book contributions.
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Good Morning, Mr. President, Whoever You Are
It’s Presidents’ Day again (February 16) and Americans honor Samuel Simpson, Tom Wilson, Leslie […]
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Searching for Lindbergh: Why it’s so hard to find monuments to the aviation hero
On May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh became the most famous, and admired, man in […]
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The Amazon: A Riddle Wrapped in Mystery Inside an Enigma
The Amazon, immense and mysterious, speaks a universal language. Its vocabulary is scientific […]