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...Kirkenes. "I can walk a week in any direction and not see a person or cross a road," says Ulvang. He's not being figurative. Every September, Ulvang and his two brothers set off from home and walk for a solid 14 hours in one direction or another. At dusk they pitch a base camp, and for the next week they roam the wilderness hunting ptarmigans...
...Today, from dawn until dusk, the Buchanan brigades met King George's army all along the Manchester-Nashua-Concord line," he said in his victory speech...
...says his eldest son Teddy, he behaved as though "kids were a necessary evil." He forbade crying, snapped at the slightest imperfection (such as a dinner delayed or a skateboard in the driveway) and ran his weekends at his South Carolina plantation on a militaristic schedule of dawn-to-dusk hunting. Teddy remembers the canoe trip he and his two brothers took with their father when Teddy was about 11. Turner, he says, "yelled and screamed the whole time. It was a nightmare. So when we had finished and we were just going down the Chattahoochee River and Dad said...
...shantytown of Lo Hermida repairs his roof at dusk. With scarce resources, the shantytown dwellers must use innovation to survive. Shantytown residents often steal electricity and water by tapping into the public power lines and water conduits. Many make their living hawking candy, pens and umbrellas on buses or street corners. Others scavenge cardboard and discarded metal at night...
...about dusk we saw four planes flying low, coming up the channel toward the harbor. Almost every antiaircraft gun in the Navy Yard started firing at them. The sad part is, they turned out to be U.S. Navy planes from the carrier Enterprise. Three were shot down, and the fourth pilot was brought into the hospital, wounded...