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...Appalachian National Scenic Trail is the nation's longest "marked footpath," stretching approximately 2,178 miles (the exact figure fluctuates) from the summit of Springer Mountain in Georgia to the top of Mount Katahdin in Maine. The trail blazes through 14 states and ranges from deep wilderness to strenuous mountain hiking above the tree line - its elevation dips to 124 ft. in New York and climbs to 6,625 ft. in Tennessee, at the top of Clingmans Dome in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The trail was the brainchild of Benton MacKaye, a New England regional planner who published...
...America, Barack Obama, for visiting this particular memorial. It gives me an opportunity to align yet again that we Germans shall never forget, and we owe the fact that we were given the opportunity after the war to start anew, to enjoy peace and freedom to the resolve, the strenuous efforts, and indeed to a sacrifice made in blood of the United States of America and of all those who stood by your side as allies or fighters in the resistance. We were able to find our place again as members of the international community through a forward-looking partnership...
...Cardinals would hold on to cross the finish line with a time of 7:14.69, less than two seconds ahead of Radcliffe’s 7:16.22 finish. The Second Varsity Eight, which also competed in the race, did not manage to keep up the strenuous pace and finished in third place in 7:48.51.“I think we ran out of course,” Hollowell said. “If we had had another 100 meters, I think we would have gotten them.”Stanford dominated the novice race with a 8:22.01 finish...
...before adulthood responsibilities begin, makes you want to ditch your career (if it hasn't already ditched you), don some mildly humiliating uniform and return to the mundane summer job of your youth. Who can argue against cash flow, solidarity with a new peer group and no responsibility more strenuous than remembering who ordered the Sanka...
...both races.With strong improvements early in their careers, the brothers appeared destined to bring a one-two punch to the pool for the Crimson. But an unforeseeable chronic injury began to create distance in their athletic results. With Bill notching nationals-caliber times, Dan found himself relegated to decreasingly strenuous workouts.“I essentially couldn’t train hard the entire [senior] season,” Dan says. “In February, I was able to get in the water more, but I was still only training five hours a week compared to 20 hours...