Word: mapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Four ministers did manage some remarkably durable diplomatic achievements. During months of intricate maneuvering, in an atmosphere marred by constant intrigue and espionage, they redrew the map of Europe, rewarding the states that defeated Napoleon with new territories and restoring ruling families, like the Bourbons, to thrones from which they had been ousted by the French Revolution and Bonaparte's conquests. The Final Act, signed in an unostentatious ceremony on June 9, 1815, created what Castlereagh called "a great machine of European safety" that was to endure, more or less intact, for 40 years. It was a supremely conservative...
...island's division. The Turkish sector was ablaze with thousands of bright red Turkish flags unfurled for the occasion. Significantly, no one seemed to be showing any Cyprus flags. That contrasted markedly with the chastened Greeks, who displayed only the flag of the island itself: a gold map of Cyprus encircled by an olive-branch garland on a white background. For the first time ever, the blue-and-white Greek banners that invariably headed any kind of Greek-Cypriot demonstration in the past were completely absent. The dream of enosis is dead...
that the true map of the Universe is the city of Eudoxia, just as it is, a stain that spreads out shapelessly, with crooked streets, houses that crumble one upon the other amid clouds of dust, fires, screams in the darkness...
...biggest scoop was never broadcast: sailing home from the 1945 Potsdam Conference on a naval vessel with Truman, Beatty guessed that an atomic bomb was to be dropped on Hiroshima when Truman interrupted a poker game to confer with an aide and point to the city on a map. Beatty commented, "There was absolutely nothing I could...
Compared with those of, say United, the friendly skies of North Carolina-based Wheeler Airlines do not seem to amount to much. The line's fleet consists of three red, white and blue eight-passenger Cessna 402s. Its route map includes such eastern North Carolina points as Elizabeth City and Morehead City, small towns that were abandoned some time ago by larger carriers. But tiny Wheeler can claim at least two distinctions. Its president, principal stockholder and part-time pilot, Warren Wheeler, 31, has a unique way of keeping up with the competition: besides being the boss of Wheeler...