A diamond hunt turns deadly when the expedition meets killer gorillas in this Michael Crichton novel
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Congo (1995) - IMDb  Action  When an expedition to the African Congo ends in disaster, a new team is assembled to ... Michael Crichton (novel), John Patrick Shanley (screenplay) .... A species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to the U.S. in a coffin and ..... as a rival expedition, and attempts to decipher the gray gorillas' "language")...
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Congo (novel) - Wikipedia  Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and ... Unlike normal gorillas, the grey animals are also extremely social, a troop consisting of ... Afterwards, Ross, Elliot, and Munro explore the ruins and discover that the killer gorillas were bred by the...
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The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee  Page 36  Jun 9, 1995 ... His son Charlie seems to have discovered the diamond lode before his satellite transmission is knocked off the air by what looks like killer gorillas. ... Peter Elliot (Dylan Walsh) meet up with the Mizumi tribe on a Congo expedition ... Michael Crichton novel about a diamond hunt In deepest, dcirkest Af riCeL...
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Congo (Film) - TV Tropes  An expedition to the titular Congo on telecommunications company ... to find the mythical lost city of Zinj, said to contain an ample diamond mine. Peter, Amy, Herkermer, and Peter's friend Richard (Grant Heslov) meet with Karen and ... of killer gorillas responsible for its elusiveness and for the initial expedition's slaughter.
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May - Musings on Michael Crichton: May 2009  May 26, 2009 ... In this Michael Crichton novel, a Scoop VII satellite returns to Earth .... A diamond hunt turns deadly when the expedition meets killer gorillas in...
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Kahn's Corner: 1985: The Mammoth Hunters by Jean Auel  Sep 1, 2014 ... The Mammoth Hunters is the third novel in the Earth's Children series, so if ... to the actions of a Neanderthal man who hates her, is exiled from the tribe. ... Labels: 1985, ayla, best seller, book review, cavemen, clan of the cave...
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Safari (1956) - IMDb  Adventure ... With Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin, Roland Culver. During ... Janet Leigh and Victor Mature in Safari (1956) ... Sex and the Single Girl .... Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda. ... I think anyone who's seen a couple of these films knows exactly where this one is going.
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Anthropology & Jared Diamond - World Until Yesterday ...  Jan 21, 2013 ... My surprise at Jared Diamond's uncritical use of Napoleon ... deal about the world of states and empires but it can tell us nothing at all about our prehistory. ... We Learn from Traditional Societies?, which takes its readers on a racist .... had a clear advantage in the game of world conquest, and his approach...
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The Lost World - Michael Crichton  Jun 16, 2015 ... Published in 1995 by Alfred A. Knopf ... The Lost World was the only sequel Michael Crichton wrote, and he saw it as a challenge. ... [On bringing Ian Malcolm back to life for The Lost World] Malcolm ... There are many reasons, but the I believe most compelling is that the dinosaurs confront usdirectly and...
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Electronic Life: How to Think about Computers - Books - PrettyFamous  He wrote novels while attending Harvard University and Harvard Medical School to ... One of these, The Andromeda Strain, which was published in 1969, became a bestseller. ... His carefully researched novels included Eaters of the Dead, The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Rising...
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Making Victorian Field Knowledge in Western ... - The Appendix  Jun 12, 2014 ... By most accounts, Paul Belloni Du Chaillu made an exemplary African field collector. ... could only take him so far in Gabon, Du Chaillu left to explore his first terra ... like established sponsorship for stories on things like apes, cannibalism, ... the explorer tracked down an immense male gorilla, writing that:.
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Michael Crichton dies at 66; bestselling author of 'Jurassic Park' and ...  Nov 6, 2008 ... When Michael Crichton was attending Harvard Medical School in the late ... later put it, "the writing became more interesting to me than the medicine." .... soon writing paperback thrillers under the pen names John Lange and...
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The Andromeda Strain: Michael Crichton: 9780061703157: Amazon ...  The Andromeda Strain [Michael Crichton] on Amazon.com. ... When Scoop VII crashes a couple years later in the isolated Arizona town of Piedmont, the .... discovered the effects of microorganisms, Crichton predicted a virus just as deadly. ... When an unmanned satellite returns to earth lethally contaminated, four American...
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May - Musings on Michael Crichton: May 2009  May 26, 2009 ... One reviewer said "Wondrous beasts and scientific possibilities" made this Michael Crichton novel "alluring" What is Jurassic Park? Thursday...
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Dian Fossey - Zoologist - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... Dian Fossey is best known for researching the endangered gorillas of the Rwandan mountain forest from the 1960s to the '80s, and for her...
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Crater of Diamonds State Park  Crater of Diamonds offers park visitors a one-of-a-kind experiencethe adventure of hunting for real diamonds. You'll search over a 37 -acre plowed field that...
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At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar, #1) by Edgar Rice Burroughs ...  At the Earth's Core is a 1914 fantasy novel by Burroughs, the 1st in his series about the ... The author relates how, traveling the Sahara, he's encountered a remarkable .... armies of ape-men, a wide variety of dinosaurs, man eating reptile birds that ..... The young well-to-do David Innes is impressed with a prototype earth drill...
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Naturalist Dian Fossey Slain at Camp in Rwanda : American Was ...  Dec 29, 1985 ... Rwandese diplomat Gregoire Karambizi said in Nairobi that the killing of the ... "Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature," she once said. "There's...
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Calamo - Wild life under the equator by Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni  By PAUL B. Du CHAILLU, Author of " Stories of the Gorilla Country," "Wild Life .... EPS of natives belonging J_ to one of the most primitive of African tribes the ...... He was not afraid of us. He stood there, and beat his breast with his huge .... 62 WILD LIFE UNDER THE EQUATOR. ten, but these words that are written are not.
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This question originally aired on December 3, 1999... | Jeopardy ...  Dec 3, 1999 ... Question: One of the first African adventure stories, this 1885 novel chronicled the search for legendary diamond mines. Answer: King...
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All That Glitters - 'The rock on which the future will be built' by Emilia ...  The diamond fields of Griqualand West Early mining in Southern Africa. ... After diamonds were discovered in the Northern Cape, a battle began about the ... In the early 1870s the population of Kimberley already numbered 30 000. .... the number of migrant Africans, who now mostly travelled to and from the diamond fields.