Word: thingvalla
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Johnson's route was ultimately changed from the area east of Cushing Street and the Haggerty School to an area including Corcoran Park and Thingvalla Avenue in the western section of the neighborhood, but he still serves Strawberry Hill residents...
...winters aren't so cold and the defenses aren't so hot. Even though Iceland is tangent to the Arctic Circle, its air is warmed by the Gulf Stream, its houses by water piped from its many hot springs. The best natural element of defense is Lake Thingvalla, which, because it is fed by these hot springs, never freezes, and is therefore ideal for flying patrol boats. Otherwise the advantages of the natural defenses are offset by the scarcity of roads and materiel-scarcities which the Yanks knew their Army would not be able to alleviate too soon...
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