familiar and strange: following the invasion of a foreign capital, a symbolic Chinese island is turned into a dumping ground for electronic waste products from the rest of the world. The inhabitants of the island eke out a living among the mountainous heaps of garbage and evolve into bizarre ...
a湖南地处云贵高原至东南山丘、南岭山地至江汉平原的过渡地带 Hunan is situated at the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the southeast massif, the Nanling mountainous region to the Jianghan plain zone of transition[translate] a我们应该通过锻练来保持身体健康 We should through exercise maintain the health[translate...
(3.6 on the south face and 4.6 on the north face) and is only the highest point because it’s in a mountainous region, raising its base more than 4 km. For the tallest mountain, look to Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa in Hawaii, both of which are 10.2 km tall though partly underwater. ...
Luckily the next stop wasn’t too far out of our way and didn’t cost too much to get back. We made it back to Lucy before getting locked into the parkade and wound our way back through the rain slicked mountainous road to our house in the woods. ...
Angel Fire Airport is in a basin surrounded by mountainous terrain. According to the NTSB, “Mountains to the west and northwest of the airport have peaks between 10,470 and 13,160 feet. Accident Weather A weather study was compiled for the accident site. An upper air sound for 1400 mounta...
On the last day of January 1914 Hayes’ small caravan arrives at “Libogo (stone),” a station atop a mountainous rock from which he can see across “a great expanse of rolling country” to other high hills marking the Congo-Nile divide. By Libogo Hayes has learned to call “the concu...
The best natural sights we saw during the trip, though, were the Adirondack Mountains, a large section of which we drove through in order to reach our non-mountainous destination, and on the return trip too. Of medium but not insignificant height (46 of the Adirondack peaks are over 4,000...
[Dartmoor], being sure-footed and hardy, and admirably calculated to scramble over the rough roads and dreary wilds of that mountainous district. The Dartmoor pony is larger than the Exmoor, and if possible, uglier. He exists there almost in a state of nature. The late Captain Colgrave, ...
Some years we get no snow at all. Because we’re located in the coastal range, our temperatures can vary 6-12 degrees from the climate in Portland and around that city. We are at 600 feet elevation and tucked in amongst some trees, mountainous area, so we can have 50 degree mornings ...
After he leaves work, Paul Hackett, a timid, word processor, portrayed by Oscar nominee, Griffin Dunne (An American Werewolf in London), sits alone in a Manhattan diner. He is reading Tropic of Cancer, written by Nobel Prize in Literature nominee, Henry Miller. Sitting a few tables away ...