Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...distance, the south side of the mountain looked considerably more favorable for climbing. The slope of the strata looked gentler, and there was a promising formation something like huge stairs. Even more important was the fact that the southern side of the mountain gets more sunshine than the northern side, and therefore should not be as cold...
...this pessimistic judgment is correct, Mt. Everest may remain unconquered for a long time. Tibet, which owns the easier northern slope, is in the process of becoming a part of Communist China. It is not likely to welcome U.S. or British alpinists, and Asians have never shown much interest in climbing difficult mountains...
While Chiang fought the northern warlords, Mao became a warlord in his own right. On Chingkan Shan, celebrated bandit mountain lair, he joined forces with the local outlaws, soon merged them in his new Red army.* It was a guerrilla force, highly mobile, terroristic, levying an ever-expanding countryside for recruits and supplies, fighting not for the ordinary warlord's booty but for a Red revolution within the Nationalist revolution...
About 450 A.D. St. Patrick made his headquarters at Armagh, near Belfast in Northern Ireland, where King Daire of Airgialla gave him the ground for a church and a monastery. Armagh is still the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, with a Protestant and a Roman Catholic cathedral. Both Northern and Southern Irishmen think of it as a symbol of their golden age 1,500 years ago when Ireland was a small bright spot in a Europe plunging down to darkness. The two hostile factions of modern Ireland hold little else in common...
...State Department calling for "no further fantasies" of this kind. The U.S. Air Force blamed the inadvertent annexation of 1,929,600 square miles of Canadian territory on an overeager mapmaker who had merely tried to indicate U.S. bases in Newfoundland and U.S. weather and communications units stationed in northern Canada. Said the Air Force ponderously: "Any indication on maps or otherwise that the U.S. has jurisdiction over the area is incorrect...