Word: the15th
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Nineteen Nights. After the15th day he was conscious of little but pain and cold. He lay motionless, unable to crawl to water. He did not know that Air Force planes had sighted the wreckage, and had dropped food and medical supplies only 175 yards from him. On the 19th night, when a rescue party stumbled past within 20 feet of him, he could not make himself heard...
Only Fit for a Saga. Like Pytheas, the Vikings, who roamed from Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen to Greenland and Newfoundland, were too far ahead of their time. By the15th Century, when their own exploratory impetus was spent, their Arctic trade-routes and their flourishing Greenland colonies had become mere fantastic stuff for sagas...
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