Word: inland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revived the glory of ancient Rome was born in 1720 in the village of Mogliano about ten miles inland from Venice. His father was a stonemason, his uncle an architect and civil engineer who worked on the huge sea walls that protect Venice's lagoon. It was an image of massiveness that was to inspire Piranesi. From the busy Venetian theaters, he learned the art of stage design, which in those times ran to imposing fixed backdrops where ornate buildings receded in dramatic chiaroscuro. At 20, Piranesi landed a job in Rome as a junior draftsman in the retinue...
...Maxime, Cannes, Nice and Menton. When they arrive, along with myriad motorists who are clogging France's autoroute du soleil, a rude shock is waiting: no accommodations are available. As many as 1,000 people a day are redirected by the local tourist office to the Maritime Alps, inland and anywhere from 50 to 100 miles...
...oceans on a 15,000-mile, 93-day voyage from Kure, Japan, where it had been built by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (I.H.I.). In Brazil, it was taken to a docking area that had been constructed by 2,500 workers on the Jari River, an Amazon tributary 250 miles inland. The factory and its separate 55,000-kw power plant was floated into position over 4,000 submerged pilings last month. Then water under the pilings was drained, and Brazil's Munguba district, which before Ludwig was little more than a swatch of forest, got a new industrial enterprise...
Then, at 2½, Noah stopped talking. He seemed to have slipped his worldly moorings and drifted into an uncharted inland sea. No one could follow him. Physicians concluded that the boy suffered from autism, a variety of schizophrenia that literally means self-involved...
...control bar, trying to turn away from the cliff, head out over the ocean, gain some altitude and try again. He didn't have time. Striking the cliff about 15 feet below the summit, he slid 25 feet down the stone face to a ledge. Then the inland wind resumed and pinned the kite and his body to the rock...