Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Donald Seawell, 65, chairman of the center and also president and chairman of the Denver Post, the opening was the first payoff on a huge investment-if not a gamble. Says Seawell, 'The Rocky Mountain states have always been have-nots as far as culture is concerned. Our planners say that Denver itself will double its population, to more than 3 million, in 20 years. They also say that if we tried to build this complex 20 years from now, the cost would be about $1 billion. It will take time, but we are looking for excellence in everything...
While our plane came in for a landing, Siberia loomed as a forbidding vista of seismic scars and snowcapped mountain ranges. Our destination: a tiny pioneer village aptly named Alonka (wasteland). The temperature: 50° F. below zero. On even chillier days, the cold at Alonka becomes literally audible: the moisture of exhaled breath freezes instantly, and the colliding crystals make a rustling sound. The Jeep-like vehicles used by the construction crews had quilts on their hoods; at a bridge construction site, workers were busy "cooking" concrete in warm elevated shacks before pouring it into foundations. The bridge, begun...
Kabul, the largest city and capital of Afghanistan, is situated in and outside a triangular gorge between two towering mountain ranges, the Asmai, and the Sherdarwaza. The ranges, which run in a southeast and northwest direction, nearly meet just west of the old town and leave a narrow passage traversed by the Kabul River and local roads...
Where is "Monumental Mountain...
Wyandotte Cave, located in southern Indiana's Crawford County, is a limestone cavern with five levels of passage. Its "Monumental Mountain," which is about 135 feet high, is believed to be one of the world's largest underground "mountains...