Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strongest areas lie on the flanks. From Sedjenane to Djebel el Ang on the northeast, and from Enfidaville to Djebel Sefsouf on the southwest (see map), the mountain chains are steep, and provide a natural defense in depth. But in the center there are two areas where the fortress walls are weak. These are the broad valleys of Tunisia's two main rivers: the Medjerda and the Miliana...
...Veneto Division was said to have been virtually destroyed. These were losses for Kesselring, but not cataclysmic ones. His remaining force of approximately 175,000 was outnumbered by perhaps 2-to-1. But, considering its advantageous positions, it was by no means broken. It contained crack Austrian and Italian mountain troops...
King of the Gulch. Near Idaho Springs, Colo., shaggy, red-bearded Alex Anderson lived a hermit's life in a mountain cave...
...Doomed. The Donners tried it-against the advice of a mountain scout who had just barely gotten through. There were 87 people in the doomed party-about half of them children, and half of these less than six years of age. "They were going to California ... to live out their days in the languorous, winterless country. . . . The younger children would grow up in a softer, more abundant life-and their gentility would not be impaired." George Donner's wife, Tamsen, took along "apparatus for preserving botanical specimens, water colors and oil paints, books and school supplies...
William Eddy remembered that in blizzards the mountain scouts made a circle of people and put their blankets over them for tents. Soon the snow covered the fugitives' circle. That Christmas four of them died. The next day they butchered the bodies and dried some of the meat for the journey. The Indians and Eddy would...