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Here, we get the first page of real science: Niagara Falls and Marconi Navigation.

First: the Falls. It's wearing away! Another 14 miles, and it will be no more. The article is full of neato statistics, such as how the Falls could give every person in the world a glass of water every minute, and it washes away a pyramid-sized (and shaped, apparently) pile of rock every year. And, interestingly, we see a projection -- where will the Falls be in the year 2000? They're actually pretty close, according to Google Maps.

In the other article, we learn about radio beacon navigation for ships. It's little more than two captioned images, but it explains the process well enough, in simple terms. In the 1930s, radio navigation came into being for both planes and boats, with still significant use today. the champion of naval radio navigation? Guglielmo Marchese Marconi, shown in the picture an instant before he was impaled and killed by a huge barbed projectile. Fascism aside, Marconi was the big name in radio, even at the time of this article when his impact was fading and others were picking up where he left off.

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