Word: edelweiss
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...misspelled a word. Bernanke, certain he was right, left the stage anyway. "He came back on stage and said he had spelled it correctly," his mother Edna recalled to the Washington Post. "And he was right." Bernanke was later eliminated at the national bee when he misspelled the word edelweiss...
...real lure of Mongolia, of course, is the chance to roam endless fields of wild grasses and edelweiss. After all, what could be more luxurious to an urban dweller than lots of room? "Time after time, a guy from the city will take off running into the fields amazed by the space," says Cashell. Accommodation starts from $30 a night; see mongolianresorts.com for more details...
...bitter local tipple made from fermented mare's milk. The yurtstay is not a cushy experience: toilets are outdoor squat-style; there are no showers, and you wash from a bucket. With the nearest telephone several hours away, my days were filled with hiking and horseback riding in edelweiss-speckled meadows. Evenings, by gaslight, consisted largely of food and drink. Round flatbread was roughly torn and piled high on a low table. Fish fresh from the lake, noodles and pickled cabbage?all smothered in sour cream?were served up as we sat around the low table on well-worn sheepskins...
...passes through some of the world's wildest mountain scenery, provides yet another incentive. The trip used to cost several hundred dollars and require special permission to traverse the Torugart Pass. This year, the Irkeshtam Pass was opened, which is cheaper and requires less paperwork. Both the budget-oriented Edelweiss Travel, tel: (996-312) 280 788, and the more upmarket Celestial Mountains, tel: (996-312) 212 562, will haul you from Bishkek to the bazaar in four-wheel-drive vehicles. Unless, of course, you'd rather spend a few weeks on a camel...
Ryan's course, which will be taught entirely in German, will focus on the resistance efforts of young people against Nazism. Some groups that will be studied include White Rose and Edelweiss Pirates, a rowdy group with anarchist tendencies who wore the edelweiss flower as a kind of insignia on their clothing, Ryan said...