Word: minored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gradually, throughout the year, as Vittimberga continued to work on minor excavations, restorations and surveying of religious temples called Marae, his perspective on the village changed as well...
...signs of its impending doom. Suddenly, in a cataclysmic blast, it exploded, brightening until it outshone a hundred million stars the size of the sun. In every direction the intense light, traveling at 186,282 miles per second, radiated out into the universe, some of it heading toward a minor planet orbiting an average star in the neighboring and much larger Milky Way galaxy...
Some 170,000 years later, on that minor planet, man had evolved, developed technology, built great cities and, in an effort to better understand his place in the universe, developed great instruments that could peer deep into space. It was not until then, on the night of Feb. 23, 1987, that the first light emitted by the exploding star, having traveled a billion billion miles through space, finally reached the earth. Some of the light passed through the lens of a 10-in. telescope at Las Campanas Observatory on a windblown 8,000- ft. mountaintop in northern Chile...
...first reports were optimistic. After two earthquakes rocked the northeastern mountains of Ecuador on March 5, the destruction in the capital of Quito, just 50 miles from the epicenter, appeared to be minor despite the temblors' high register of 7 on the Richter scale. But as reports began trickling in from Napo province, the remote Amazon jungle region that was most severely affected, the picture changed. Last week it had become clear that the quakes, which were followed by hundreds of aftershocks, constituted one of the worst natural disasters ever in the tiny South American country. As estimates...
...object was not necessarily to "tell my fortune" or give me a detailed picture of my past, but to help me work through things that were bothering me, and give me advice on how to "balance" myself. He mentioned that I was too much of a perfectionist and let minor setbacks upset me more than they should. He said I should not dwell on the negative, but on the positive, adding that if I started to think negative thoughts, I should just say, "Fuck that...