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Oil Exploration

America’s greed for oil has drastically upset the ecological balance of Alaska’s North Slope, and the end is not in sight

The story of the first great Texas oil well, which ushered in a new century and a new age, as remembered by participants

Texas, as everyone knows, is synonymous with oil. But how many know, at least in any detail, the story of the fabulous strike which ushered in the age of the Lone Star billionaire?

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