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"No, no. In the First War. All those early fighters. Baron Von Richthofen, the German, Albert Ball, the Englishman, René Fonck, the Frenchman. And all the rest. Werner Voss and Ernst Udet, and Rickenbacker and Luke Short." Joe nodded at last. "I remember now. They'd have a Vickers or Spandau mounted so as to fire between the propeller blades.
It is not, however, a canal in the Western sense of the word, but merely, as Richthofen has explained, "a series of abandoned river beds, lakes and marshes, connected one with another by cuttings of no importance, fed by the Wanho in Shantung, which divides into two currents at its summit, and by other streams and rivers along its course.
As I recall, that German, Richthofen, had some eighty victories to his credit." "O.K. They called them dogfights. One aircraft against another. You're going to reintroduce the whole thing." Joe was staring at him. Once again the Telly reporter sounded completely around the bend. Freddy was impatiently patient.
The coal formation extends, with few interruptions, from Eastern Shansi to Hi through thirty degrees of longitude. There is scarcely, remarks Richthofen, an instance on record "where so many favorable and essential conditions co-operate to concentrate all future intercourse on so long a line upon one single and definite channel."
Voss, he thought, was the only Boche that could compare with him, for he hadn't made up his mind about Lensch. The Frenchman Guynemer he ranked high, but in a different way. I remember he had no respect for Richthofen and his celebrated circus. At six sharp we were ready to go.
We rode for hours by the margin of a vast plain of basalt stretching southward and westward as far as the eye could reach.... I realised the truth of an assertion made first by Richthofen, that our modern volcanoes, such as Vesuvius and Etna, present us with by no means the grandest type of volcanic action, but rather belong to a time of failing activity.
The one thing needful was to 'get over your own fright, and not be shy of getting quite close to your opponent. Modern heroes. "Two charming stories were told about these two brothers. The English had put a price on the head of the elder Richthofen.
A certain inevitable prejudice even at this length of time leads one to discount the valour of pilots in the German Air Service, but the names of Boelcke, von Richthofen, and Immelmann recur as proof of the courage that was not wanting in the enemy ranks, while, however much we may decry the Gotha raids over the English coast and on London, there is no doubt that the men who undertook these raids were not deficient in the form of bravery that is of more value than the unthinking valour of a minute which, observed from the right quarter, wins a military decoration.
But there are apparently good reasons for preferring the theory of Richthofen: viz., first, the veinstone of the Comstock is chiefly quartz, the natural and common precipitate of hot waters, since they are far more powerful solvents of silica than cold.
Science, vol. 3., ser. . A beautiful map of this mountain is given in the Fifth Annual Report, U.S. Geol. Survey, 1883-84. Plate 44. Daubeny, loc. cit., p. 474. Gilbert, Monograph U.S. Geol. Survey, vol. i. . Powell, Exploration of the Colorado River, p. 177, etc. . Hayden, Rep. U.S. Geol. Survey of the Colorado, etc. Richthofen, Natural System of Volcanic Rocks, Mem. California Acad.
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