Word: ashli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tobacco, ending a three-month attempt at quitting his sheesha. A sheesha is an elaborate water pipe, with a glass bowl base, topped by brass fittings called 'alb al-sheesha, or "heart of the sheesha." "Above this fans out a copper dish that serves to catch any coals or ash falling from the haggar or "stone." Smoke is drawn through the lay (hose) which is connected to the 'alb al-sheesha...
With the names of trees you can make a fine pagan bouquet of words: hornbeam, ginkgo, quickbeam, oak, white willow, tamarind, Lombardy poplar, false cypress, elder, laburnum, larch, baobab, black gum, rowan, hazel, whitebeam, tree of heaven, ash...
...residents of Kenai, Alaska, looked on in awe last week, Redoubt volcano continued its noisy return from a 25-year dormancy. The 10,194-ft. mountain, 115 miles southwest of Anchorage, had begun spewing ash last month, which disrupted mail deliveries and passenger air traffic in the heavily traveled corridor to Asia. But the latest series of eruptions were even more spectacular. A plume of volcanic ash rose 40,000 ft. high, and lightning caused brilliant yellow and red flashes that illuminated the volcano against the night sky and revealed the area's coastline. Pilots reported seeing lava...
...left the area -- but when he painted Cotopaxi in 1862 in full eruption, he could not have left much doubt that this scene also held a lesson for an America plunged into hatred and despair by the Civil War. The morning sun rises through the plume of smoke and ash, irresistibly, its disk made lurid but not extinguished by the subterranean fires, its light mirrored in a tranquil lake. Catastrophe will not wipe out nature; in the foreground of the volcanic plain, new plants spring to life. This, as the art historian David C. Huntington once remarked, is about...
...emphatically so. They poured into Palace Square only hours after the caretaker government was announced. In the shadow of the burned-out, bullet-pocked presidential palace and Communist Party Central Committee building, they marched over the refuse of the struggle, crunching through broken glass, lost shoes, burned wood and ash. "We are not leaving!" they yelled. One young man in the crowd told Western correspondents, "We don't want more communists. We want freedom." Valentin Gabrielescu, a 68-year-old lathe operator standing at the edge of the demonstration, agreed. "I do not believe in good or bad communists, just...