Word: landmass
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...million square kilometer (695,000 square mile) ice cap has trickled south and the race for polar resources has officially started, the international community is paying more attention to its largest island. By the end of this summer, some 3,400 scientists from 60 countries were working on the landmass. Both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had dropped by to see the melting glaciers for themselves. And singer Björk dedicated a song to Greenland (and the Faroe Islands) - "Declare Independence" - on her latest album...
...man’ phenomenon stems from deeper historical roots. The Enlightenment brought admirable leaders, San Martín and Simón Bolívar, who were comparable to George Washington, but local leaders shattered their dream of a free and united continent. Latin America—a gargantuan landmass with roughly the same Catholic beliefs, mostly one language, and similar cultural heritage, institutions, and economic development—was not encouraged to unite as a republic, or even a confederacy...
Europe is a geographical expression - a peninsula of peninsulas on the western edge of the Eurasian landmass - but there has never been a settled definition of its physical limits. Rather, historians, writers and politicians have long referred to a set of shared histories - conquest by the Romans, Christianity, the Enlightenment and democracy - that unite Europeans conceptually. By definition, most other stories...
...fitful anxiety at home, millions of citizens sleep more easily at night because they believe their Prime Minister is in control. All rock, no roll. Others curse his name as soon as they hear the morning news. Mentally or physically in exile, they have opted out of the sullen landmass they call "Howard's Australia." Yet in moments of fear, clarity and decision, Australians have come to know in their bones the country's 25th Prime Minister. His voice, temper, will, carriage, wounds and triumphs are part of the nation's shared experience. There are no surprises left, it would...
...Corruption scandals have steadily eroded the government's grip on power - in direct proportion to its impressive longevity. Canada, famous for hockey, waggish comedians and an unforgiving Arctic climate, is also home to one of the world's longest-ruling political parties. Canada's Liberals have reigned over the landmass stretching from the 49th parallel to the Arctic Ocean since 1993. In fact, the Liberals have held nearly unbroken power for most of the 20th century - a record that bolstered their claim to be the "natural" party of government. But even natural parties come to a natural end. The tipping...