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...Both days it was light wind, which was unfortunate for us, because we had practiced 420s in heavier wind,” Lambert said...
...races were hampered by a cold and rainy nor’easter on Saturday and no wind on Sunday—which meant no races that day. With the cancellation of Sunday’s races, the team lost a valuable opportunity to move up in the standings after a night of recuperation and evaluation of Saturday’s races...
...were pumped to sail the second day, but the wind didn’t cooperate,” Himler said, “We would’ve moved up in the standings, and it’s unfortunate that it didn’t work out—but that’s sailing. We’re completely dependent on the weather...
...spoken ill of his plans for world domination. The punitive expedition proved to be one of antiquity's most dramatic episodes of imperial overreach. One morning, while the army was having breakfast, writes the ancient historian Herodotus in The Histories, it was set upon by "a violent southern wind, bringing with it piles of sand, which buried them." The Greek continues, "Thus it was that they utterly disappeared...
...afield from the old caravan track revealed dried-up wells and pieces of earthenware pottery from Persian water pots. The army may have taken this alternative path through the desert in order to surprise the defenders of the Amon temple, but were stopped short by the unforgiving Saharan khamsin wind, which triggered sandstorms that scattered and eventually destroyed the attacking troops. The Castiglionis' team also heard bedouin tales of an entire valley of bleached human skulls and bones and they did indeed come across a grave of skeletons not far from Siwa. Among the bones was a bit used...