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  • Book ends of partial cross section of Petrified Araucaria Pine, from Arizona, U.S.A. Grew in the time of the dinosaurs, 160 million years ago. Northern Arizona was ten swamp land, and has since been thrust upward several thousand feet. Araucarias grow in the wold in the Andes and on Norfolk Island off the coast of…

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  • Contains a brilliant display of polished petrified wood and dioramas showing what the area probably looked like when the trees of the forest were living. The museum is operated by the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Mailed from Barstow, California to Miss. P. Bereza of Wausaukee, Wisconsin on September 12, 1956:…

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt