Word: moorland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climbers, a motley assembly of shorts and sneakers, knickers and mountain boots, start out with cheerful hearts over a gentle, 5 1/2-mile path through rain forest to Mandara, a "village" of overnight huts. The second day is a more strenuous, 7 1/2-mile upward trudge through moorland to the Horombo complex of huts. Both sites were developed by the Norwegians as an aid project in the early 1970s. Today they could do with a little redevelopment...
Porter served as a research librarian and is now curator emeritus at Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center in Washington...
...built the center from a small, specialized collection to what is one of the largest [Afro-American Studies] collection at any university," said Moorland-Spingarn Director Dr. Thomas Battle...
Where the soldiers are headed, however, a motorbike would not be of much help. Parts of the "road tracks" running from Port San Carlos to Port Stanley are treacherously soft. The route runs over open moorland. You either ford streams in a Land Rover, water up to the wheels, or go across small bridges. Residents know the best way to Stanley is to proceed south, over the Sussex Mountains (about 900 ft. high), and the British forces have shown they know it too. The road is boggy on the tops of the hills, but once over, the clay track...