Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thaw occurred about 15,000 years ago when the Ice Age came to a close. South of the Arctic Circle, evergreens spread from Finland to the Bering Sea. A great network of rivers, including the Don, began flowing quietly and otherwise; the steppe rolled out from the Carpathians to Mongolia; the semi-deserts of Central Asia pillowed to the south. Into this immensity came Goths, Slavs, Vikings and Tatars, mixing their blood on battlefields and in bedrooms. The text is necessarily simplified, but clear and cool. More than 400 excellent illustrations...
With little money and an organization to match, a voting record so far to the left that he might have been from Outer Mongolia-in the whole House of Representatives he cast the only vote in 1966 and 1967 against military appropriations and was against Viet Nam right from the beginning-George Brown, in that calm, methodical, don't-give-a-damn. tell-it-likc-it-is way of his, hardly seemed a threat. He was safe for a fifth term in Congress: so why throw it all up to gamble for the Senate? "I wanted to carry...