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To facilitate the understanding it is followed final phase of reading with intention to cure any phrases badly written that in turn could eventually provide a series of succession of difficulties in the perception. *a Internet was our last resource, due to exiguidade of the sources. Ellssworth Huntington was born the 16 of September of 1876 in the United States of America. It was graduated for the Beloit College, in the Wisconsin, 1897 (with 21 years). In this exactly year travelled for Turkey, where it leccionou in the University Harput Eufrates up to 1901.

During the vacations, it explored the region surrounding, especially some of the Kurd regions that are almost independent of the government turco1. It was imprisoned for two times because the Turkish officers thought that any one that it wrote (wrote down) something deliberately was spy, and in others two occasions were hindered to travel very. Before leaving Turkey it obtained, after some attempts, floating through the throats of the river superior Eufrates, to the runnings and in the company of WH Norton of the North American consul, in Harput. The trip had been made only one time before, for General Alemo Von Moltke, in 1839. The aboriginals had alleged that the stream bed was fuller of rocks since the time of the Von Moltke, and that nobody more would have to pass for this river. It stops beyond making maps of the river and several other regions, Huntington were discovered to explore a series of Hititas ruins and others. In recognition of its work, he was awardee with the Memorial Gill for the Royal Geographical Society de Londres2. In 1915, it decided to abandon education and became an associate of research of the Carnegic Instituition of Washington, where he carried through research of the climate in the North America, Mexico and Central America (Cuba, Guatemala). From this moment until its death, he decided to dedicate its time to the writing and the inquiry on the climate.

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