Word: capes
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...tundra of northern Manitoba each year, the bears, in particular the big males, begin to think about their favorite winter activity, hunting fat seals on the ice floes of Hudson Bay. With unerring instinct, they begin congregating around the bay's southwestern shores, mostly in the area of Cape Churchill, only 35 miles east of the town, where the first ice usually forms. Meanwhile, pregnant females, urged on by another instinct, head for a bleak region 50 miles south of Churchill, the largest known polar bear denning area in the world. As many as 100 females hole up there...
...Soviet bloc nations; the Soviet Union, directly or indirectly, supports most liberation movements suppressed by the Afrikaners, Socialist states have arisen in post-independent Mozambique and Angola; Namibia may follow suit. All of which pleases the Soviets immensely. They realize that the West would lose its control over the Cape sea-route--used by most oil tankers travelling from the Middle East to Europe and America--and the valuable mineral resources of the sub-continent if South Africa joins the Communist bloc...
...today, the Macy's of Harvard Square offers 200 varieties in a special two-floor bazaar of the seasons. You could spend hours there and never get past March. How could anyone know whether Granny would prefer Vermont Life, New Hampshire Profiles, Cape Cod and the Islands or Martha's Vineyard...
...well as small cities in Indiana, New Jersey and Michigan. Working with a research team, he photographed some houses that manage an air of innocent sweetness despite their myriad incongruities. These are the happy accidents of design. But Vergara has also documented many flamboyant temples of vulgarity: a Cape Cod cottage on Chicago's South Side, wrapped in garishly colored stone veneer, white wrought-iron tracery and striped aluminum awnings; a semidetached gilded castle in Bayonne, N.J., concocted from pendages; and the astonishing acrobatic stance of a new room cantilevered from the roof of a bungalow in Birmingham. These...
Mary Renault, born Mary Challans 76 years ago in London, is regarded as one of the world's leading historical novelists. From Cape Town, South Africa, where she has lived since 1948, Renault looks back to antiquity where history, legend and myth rocked in the same cradle. The King Must Die, her most widely known book, is also her best, because it leaves the reader with the illusion of having attended the birth of Western consciousness. Theseus was the narrator, and civilization was only a gleam on his sword...