If it had not been for LinkedIn, I might never have been aware of the existence of the 2024 Bouguer gravity map of Brazil, and that would have been a pity. Some things jump out almost at first sight, and one of these is the narrow and almost linear gravity high that roughly coincides with the main course of the middle Amazon.
The Livre des Cent-et-un was published in Paris from 1831 to 1834. Each of the fifteen volumes had between 400 and 500 pages, and among the contributors were Alexandre Dumas, Chateaubriand, Lamartine, and Victor Hugo. And also Jacques Arago, who wrote three pieces, including a strange tale of a man who loved executions.
Ayn Rand thought that only government bureaucrats had immunity for the consequences of their mistakes. She was wrong. In today’s world, businessmen share that immunity.
Free-air gravity maps suggest that, rather than having been a rectilinear feature, the subducted portion of the D’Entrecasteaux ridge, which impacts the Vanuatu Trench at a high angle, was curvilinear. The entire region is reminiscent, in size and the disposition of subduction -related volcanics and collision orogens, to the Banda Sea region of eastern Indonesia.
Rose de Freycinet wrote to her mother that the governor of Guam was in Humåtak to greet a Spanish vessel, the La Paz, when the Uranie arrived. He needed to satisfy himself that it was not in unfriendly hands.
One of the things about which Ayn Rand had something to say in one of her essays on capitalism was the emergence of monopoly. It is clear she had not grasped some of its essential features.