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 100 Years Ago: June 1926

 

This is the 137th entry in my series of abridgements of 100-year-old National Geographic Magazines.

 

 

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"A lion cub drapes a paw over its mother's shoulder in a

startlingly humanlike gesture on Tanzania's Serengeti plain.

Many a human mother wrote to Society headquarters 

Dear 'Corner -- 

Does anyone know, or have insight as to the origins of this poster?  - (which I am inserting as an image below).

It is the 1988 Centennial poster of the 'NGM' covers, Oct. 1888 through September 1988; with the 1888-1959 covers being only a truncated sampling of the "versions" & sty...

~ 41 years ago in America . . . (and 40 + 16 years ago in our 'NGM') ~

"At 8:32 a.m. PDT on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens, a volcanic peak in southwestern Washington, suffers a massive eruption, killing 57 people and devastating some 210 square miles of wilderness.

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