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Mass extinctions are a worryingly frequent event on Earth, with five major catastrophes striking in the last 500 million years alone. The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction 66 million years ago is perhaps the most famous of these events as it put an abrupt end to the reign of the dinosaurs. The extinction was caused by a six-mile-wide asteroid striking in the modern-day Gulf of Mexico, killing about 70percent of all life on land and in the seas. ....

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Map of Central Asia to accompany the Paper by Captain H. Trotter R.E., on the Geographical Results of Sir T.D. Forsyth's Mission to Kashgar, 1873


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Map of Central Asia to accompany the Paper by Captain H. Trotter R.E., on the Geographical Results of Sir T.D. Forsyth s Mission to Kashgar, 1873 - 74.
  1878 (dated)    
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This is an 1878 William John Turner and Royal Geographical Society map of Xinjiang, China that traces explorations of the Forsyth Mission of 1873 - 1874, making this one of the first detailed Western maps of the region. The map depicts the region from Peshawar, Pakistan to Tibet and from the Tian Shan Mountains to Pangong Lake. British, Russian, Chinese, and Afghan territory are color coded with a key in the lower right. The routes of the Forsyth Mission are traced in red. Three different groups set out from Leh, India, to reconvene at Yarkand, in the Dominion of Yakoob Khan , and proceeded to Kashgar, where they met Yakub Beg. ....

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