How To Use Alpine In A Sentence
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While the alpine end of the sport needs only cold weather to produce skiable terrain, cross-country must have snow.
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As many as 30 different species grow, among them Alpine bartsia Bartsia alpina, Alpine bistort Polygonum viviparum, Unalaska fleabane Erigeron humilis and thick-leaved whitlow grass Draba crassifolia.
Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
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Slogging up the alpine tracks, another decision was made.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each has some sensational skiing and boarding, and can easily be reached from an Alpine airport.
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In dunnocks, females may use song to compete for males, and in the alpine accentor, females attract males by song.
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The hikers start in tropical rainforest territory and travel through moorlands, alpine meadows and glaciers on the summit.
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He was allowed to remain temporarily in the Alpine country after filing an appeal against the decision.
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Inconsistencies and nonparallelisms abound: cisatlantic is in but not cisalpine; tramontane but not cismontane; poikilothermal but not homoiothermal.
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It is a still a point of hot debate with skiers as to whether Les Arcs is a work of architectural genius, or simply a hideous alpine eyesore.
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An increasing amount of forests along ridgetops in the front ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains is reducing the ability of some alpine butterflies to disperse among patches of suitable habitat.
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Alpine tundra, alpine grassland, subirrigated meadows, and wetlands occur above timberline.
Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)
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Ski mountaineering or touring is a popular Alpine pursuit in spring, when the weather is clement and the crevasses are mapped.
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The alpine skiing programme has been badly hit.
Times, Sunday Times
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They come with wholesome winter references such as alpine leaf designs or chunky cable knits, and should be worn with jeans and heavy shoes or trainers.
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But, more than the excitement, the sheer seclusion and beauty that a quiet alpine ski run can give is something rarely experienced.
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The Sedimentary Subalpine Zone ecoregion is found southeast of Yellowstone National Park, in the overthrust belt, and in the northwest corner of the Bighorn Mountains in areas underlain by faulted and folded Mesozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone).
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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The area encompasses zones of subarctic mountain birch forest in the lowlands, heather and grassland higher up, and mountainous alpine terrain at the highest altitudes.
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A few hard-core telemarkers skim the hill; a lone boarder surfs in for a burger; a dozen alpine skiers brave the ungroomed crud.
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Vancouver - Weather conditions were improving ahead of the men's downhill at Whistler Creekside Monday in good news for organizers who have had to rejuggle their Olympics alpine ski programme.
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They inhabit dense forests, open sagebrush country, and alpine parklands.
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The debate about alpine grazing is not about horses or horsemen, it is about a small number of privileged families who pay the equivalent of about one week of normal agistment fees for five months cattle agistment in an alpine national park.
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Alpine strawberry plants last for three growing seasons.
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To investigate further, the biologists took to subalpine forests in the foothills of Mount Fuji, where the cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of red-flanked bush robins.
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Farnborough subsequently had its first piece of national coverage by the way of Alpine sports newsletter.
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The severity and unpredictably of higher latitude and alpine habitats present special challenges to birds and mammals who live out some or all of their lives there.
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Among the common wildflowers are one-flowered cinquefoil, woolly lousewort, alpine willowherb, three saxifrages, and an Indian paintbrush.
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At first sight, it is your standard-issue Alpine hotel: built on old cattle pasture and still run by the family that owned the cows.
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The effort of reflation is not merely coming from the U.S. and [quantitiative-easing] potential, but is also a policy that appears will be taken more widely," said Stephen Lieber, chief investment officer at Alpine Mutual Funds.
Stocks Rally to Five-Month High
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In the west, the fiordlands and alpine terrain of British Columbia attest to vigorous glaciation of high-relief mountains in a snowy, maritime climate.
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The sun is shining on Alpine pistes and resorts are relying on artificial snow cannons to keep slopes open.
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The propagules of these predominantly arctic/alpine grasses consist of indeterminate spikelets, which revert to vegetative growth before dehiscing from the parent plant.
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Plutarch speaks of Ravenna as in Gaul, which he calls Galatia; but though Ravenna was within the limits of Cisalpine
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
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It's ski racing's biggest biennial bonanza, a snow-sport event for Alpine purists, and this year it's coming to Italy.
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It's the usual grab bag of danger that one accepts in exchange for high-alpine solitude, and maybe even satori.
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They inhabit every terrestrial ecosystem on earth, from rainforest canopies to alpine mountains, from lakes and rivers to hot dry deserts.
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Another sport that took off in this period was Alpine mountaineering.
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The confidence of the Milanese redoubled when they learned that he had promised the members of the assembled clergy to maintain the catholic worship and clergy as already established, and had compelled them to take the oath of fidelity to the cisalpine republic.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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The steep, mountainous Volcanic Subalpine Forests ecoregion is composed of volcanic and igneous rocks, predominately andesitic with areas of basalt.
Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA)
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Laterally it graded "abruptly" into the typical cubalpine forest of the Snake Range in which spruce and limber pine were codominant and bristlecone was conspicuously absent.
Cutting Down the Oldest Living Tree in the World « Climate Audit
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Alpine
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Some moths have unusual distribution patterns in the region with normally alpine species such as Chloroclystis nereis found on the coast.
Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands
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Our chill mountaion camp on the chilcotin side of the Coast Mountains lay near the treeline, where clearcut gave way to krummholz, the low, twisty trees of the alpine tundra.
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Mago, in cisalpine Gaul, was too far off to render aid.
Ancient States and Empires
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With this in-your-face romping composition, Alpinestars's dirty electro flirts with raw electric guitars and angelic choirboys.
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A British Alpine billy, five British Alpine does and two Saanen does have just been safely delivered to their new home in Katima Mulilo.
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You will be mostly mingling with French tourists and overall costs are lower than in Alpine resorts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Asked what they had been up to in their alpine retreat, the Teplice coach laughed: ‘Mainly skis, sledges and bobsleighs.’
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On the south side of the manor house, he planted a large alpine meadow with masses of scillas, daffodils, anemomes and fritillarias.
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In the centre of the country, the alpine moorland and montane forests of Mt. Kenya and the Aberdares conceal rare bongo antelope, red duiker, suni, bushbuck, Giant forest hog and colobus monkeys.
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Alpine-cleft deposits develop in an existing open gash in which hydrothermal fluid infiltrates and recrystallizes the surrounding rock.
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We parbuckled him out by means of the Alpine rope, which was quickly detached from the sledge,
South with Scott
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The alpine pastures and marshes with an amazing variety of wild flowers were most eye-catching.
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Alpine sports offer exhilaration and exercise in spectacular mountain settings.
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The grey, flinty slopes covered in the serried ranks of vineyards, gave way to the high pastures, the Alpine meadows, which nourished the famed cattle of Switzerland.
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The authors also predict an increase in violent storms, fires, landslides and avalanches in the Alpine region as well as widespread deforestation.
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In alpine environments, plants may be exposed to high temperatures during the day, but may be subject to overnight lows near freezing.
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Just as impressive are Alpine White III matt, Black Sapphire metallic and Silver Grey metallic.
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The lunch mural, for want of a better title, strikes an altogether different chord — that of an evacuated spring-blossomy babbling-brook alpine hinterland glorious people-scape, in which the principal technical challenge for the artist was to crank up the volume of the foliage and the foreground blossoms, whilst reining in the waters, because for obvious reasons the plash and gurgle of cataracts can be counterproductive at lunchtime.
The Mural II
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Forests are more than trees, of course, and along with its timber Afghanistan is at risk of losing its wolves, snow leopards, bears, and foxes, as well as alpine ruminants like Marco Polo sheep and ibex.
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Like the Himalaya, alpine elevations support shrubbier vegetation on northern exposures because these hold a protective blanket of winter snow.
Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
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The alpine marmot is a large ground-dwelling squirrel living in mountain open meadows, preferentially exposed to south.
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The pretty pink of alpine phlox is an attractive border and the plants can be divided and planted again and again.
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Plants growing at high elevations in tropical mountains show a scleromorphic habit at the leaf and plant level, despite the fact that alpine landscapes are generally considered to be cool and humid environments.
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Shops and restaurants would complete the building, set to overtake Milton Keynes as the biggest indoor alpine ski complex in Britain.
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We were further lulled into peace by the hypnotic clonking of their bells and the heady perfumes of alpine flowers.
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Her virtual car lurches forward, overtaking a rival competitor tearing around the Alpine race track.
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The idea was to mimic the conditions in which the plants grew, so why not mimic an alpine landscape in miniature?
Times, Sunday Times
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The altogether fetching, ground-hugging alpine forget-me-nots are at their peak in mid-July (followed closely by such charmers as alpine sandwort, mouse ear, and rockjasmine).
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Stone pine (Pinus cembra) occurs at the alpine timberline in the highest mountain ranges (Tatras, Czornohora, Marmures, Făgăraş, Retezat) of the Carpathians.
Carpathian montane conifer forests
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Donning warm clothing, gloves and waterproof shoes, he saw the mountain horizon with snow and blue sky, the Alpine huts, trees and animals designed to create the real winter snow experience.
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Alpine sunshine has sometimes followed snow to show the fells and mountains at their most exquisitely beautiful.
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He was an expert grower of alpines, rhododendrons and azaleas, and spent his last afternoon working in his garden.
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In the Arctic, extremely steep environmental gradients are frequent on a microtopographical scale and ecotypic differentiation has been demonstrated over such short distances for alpine timothy (Phleum alpinum [16]), Carex aquatilis [17], mountain avens [18], and purple saxifrage [19], all widely distributed plant species in the Arctic.
Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
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Messner was able to move so quickly because he climbed alone, alpine-style — meaning he took only a rucksack.
Brotherhood of the Mountain
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Want to know how to tie an alpine butterfly or a cat 's paw?
Times, Sunday Times
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With four comms radios instantly available, we switch from McAlpines' company frequency straight to Heathrow.
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I use this same technique for propagating all types of alpines this time year… from saxifrages to beardtongues, lychnis, gentians, androsaces, etc.
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The medieval towns, monasteries, perfumeries, olive groves, flower farms and steep countryside into the alpine area provided the most magnificent scenery.
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As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians, crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.
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Peaty soils dominated hollows and lower slopes with tallish heather, and subalpine soils dominated the freely drained ground with short heath.
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Dramatically, single species emerge, like alpine ash, and the woollybutts that are signposts of regular winter snow.
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Precambrian metamorphism and migmatization and the wide spectrum of mainly Alpine mica ages provide clear evidence for such a polyphase geological history.
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The Wonderland Trail, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: This 93-mile circumnavigation of the mountain traverses lowland forests and subalpine meadows.
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Pope Benedict XVI sent greetings to Tour riders and organizers as the pack passed close to the Alpine retreat of Les Combes, overlooking Mont Blanc, where the pontiff is staying.
Astarloza wins Stage 16, Contador holds yellow
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Mature alpine landscapes exhibit many of the ‘classic’ features of glaciation, including troughs, hanging valleys, truncated spurs, and narrow arêtes rising to narrow rock peaks.
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Egyptian scarabaei were perched on an Alpine mountain; there a clay amphora, of the shape of the Greeks or Romans, was adorned with gaudy plates cut out of fashion magazines.
The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879
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Marvel at the terrifying Alpine passes into Switzerland and the Gothic architecture of Germany and Belgium.
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Although the Alpine Corps, as a general thing, contain the largest and strongest men in the French Army, yet the average French soldier may be termed undersized when compared with the military of either England or
Revenge!
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The bushwalker was trekking overnight on Mt Bogong, in the Alpine National Park, when he became lost.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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If you go alpine skiing your boots lock you into position and you can't move.
Times, Sunday Times
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I prefer the “mast of some great ammiral,” with all its tackle, to the Scotch fir or the alpine tannen; and think that more poetry has been made out of it.
Life of Lord Byron
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BillKal The golden metalist in Alpine Skiing Downhill for the Winter Olympic Games 2010 is ....
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I use perennial alpine pinks, biennial sweet William and self-sowing annual candytuft to edge beds of Jupiter's-beard and June-blooming yarrows such as pale yellow ‘Taygetea’ and ‘Moonshine’.
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A day spent in its embrace, with only the chamois and the alpine chough for company, is a revelation.
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Nietzsche's iciness and coldness, the Alpine retreat and solitariness all have an effect in producing a complete and total nihilism - ‘no interests at all.’
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Greetings cybernauts this is Vern Tejas with Alpine Ascents' 2003 Mt Everest ascent.
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Stream, and yew and arbutus, as well as tropical cryptogamia and Alpine plants, overgrow every available spot along the sides of the rough defile.
The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway
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The country's Alpine peaks provide a setting for skiing, bobsledding, tobogganing, mountain walking, and climbing.
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American sloth W 1883 OW mephitine skunk W soricine shrew 1781 - moschine musk deer c1878 OW OW talpine mole 1860 OW musteline weasel, mink tapirine tapir
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The Great Northern Railway, for example, chose the rustic Swiss alpine lodge as a prototype for its hotels and depots.
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Taking the family skiing over Christmas or half-term can cost a fortune, so would it make more sense to invest in your own Alpine property?
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ENERGY DYNAMICS OF THE POPULATION OF POLECAT IN THE ALPINE MEADOW ECOSYSTEM.
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Flying region is a mixture of flatlands and low hills - much safer than any alpine region.
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As edging plants I'd use chives, compact Alpine strawberries and edible flowers such as old-fashioned pinks, violas and marigolds.
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This indicates that coprophagous animals were indeed at least partially responsible for the disappearance of the fecal smears in the 1999 alpine experiment.
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Sow seeds of herbaceous perennials and alpine plants in a cold frame or unheated greenhouse.
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In general, alpine and arctic birds have developed a variety of mechanisms to adjust or delay reproductive effort during storms, without forgoing or abandoning the breeding attempt.
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In addition, most of his songs are in triple meter and in this regard, resemble popular Alpine dances, especially the waltz and landler.
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Among the 102 species of birds are spotted eagle Aquila clanga (VU), golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus, hazel grouse Bonasa bonasia, eagle owl Bubo bubo, black woodpecker Dryocopus martius, three-toed woodpecker Picoides trydactilus and Alpine chough Pyrrhocorax graculus.
Pirin National Park, Bulgaria
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Rescue workers were on the scene in the Alpine town of Bramberg working to free eight people trapped in the wreckage.
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Trees at the alpine timberline were expected to exhibit a hydraulic architecture protecting the leader shoot from winter embolism.
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Plant communities thrive there, from ribbons of riparian plants to sagebrush fiats, lodgepole pine forests, subalpine meadows and alpine stone fields.
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Later as German leader he sealed off the hamlet, creating an exclusive retreat where he and other top Nazis could wine and dine, savour the crisp Alpine air, and plan the most barbarous acts of the Third Reich.
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Bode Miller — 25, born in Franconia, N.H.; 2002 Olympic combined silver medalist and giant slalom silver medalist; bronze medalist at 2001 giant slalom World Cup; he started snowboarding and eventually switched to Alpine skiing.
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Although it has a wide latitudinal range, it is mostly habitat restricted and dominates subalpine communities in which prostrate individuals characterize the upper tree line.
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Theiner: Histoire des deux concordats de la république française et de la république cisalpine conclus en 1801 et 1813, entre Napoléon Bonaparte et le Saint-Siège.]
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)
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This brazen act of infidelity with Britain had them wondering if the Alpine air had gone to her head.
Times, Sunday Times
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The alpine spiraea grows here also and blossoms profusely with potentilla, erigeron, eriogonum, pentstemon, solidago, and an interesting species of onion, and four or five species of grasses and sedges.
The Yosemite
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In winter, it looks positively Alpine when the snow forms sweeping cornices.
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alpine sports
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The Alpine fastnesses of Dauphiné, to the east, certainly did not tempt them to stray off, with their high, cold valleys and largely pastoral economy.
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As you gain elevation, you leave the montane areas and enter the subalpine ecosystem.
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On August 1, 1291, three Alpine cantons swore the oath of confederation, an act that later came to be regarded as the foundation of Switzerland.
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Sixty-seven percent of those surveyed support a ban on truck traffic through the St Gotthard road tunnel, according to the poll commissioned by an Alpine environmental lobby group.
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Alpine farmers checking their flocks, woodsmen, hunters, postmen and border guards used skis as pure tools for transport.
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The last on this list of survival ski techniques, but perhaps most important, the snowplow is usually the first turning position learned in alpine or telemark skiing.
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One plant, alpine pennycress was chosen for intensive study because it accumulates tremendous excesses of some of these elements - as much as 1,000 times more than normal.
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The mountains also prove to be a tourist attraction as some of the mountains experience alpine conditions which leads to ski resorts.
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Join us for five days of hiking around Uncompahgre and Wetterhorn Peaks, complete with deep valleys, rocky eminences, alpine tundra, and towering mountains.
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We felt it to the full; yet none the less, but rather the more, could we feel at the same time the delicate and ethereal beauty of the fringed gentianella and the pale Alpine lilies scattered on the short turf beside us.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
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The past fortnight has continued the pattern, with his build-up to the forthcoming season about as smooth as an alpine pass.
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He has transformed the team from no-hopers into a side who shocked the world by beating Ukraine in a play-off, making this Alpine republic of 1.8 million people the smallest nation yet to reach the finals.
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It has lush grounds and an alpine-style summer terrace overlooking the tennis courts, where waiters serve cool drinks.
THE SECOND MARK
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What else could they suppose of the president of an Alpine Club, a renowned ascensionist, of whom his friends spoke only with "Ahs!" and exultant gestures.
Tartarin On The Alps
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But they do seem to be designedly variant, especially where the Alpine setting is concerned.
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Sunny wings sprang open and bore him in a steep glide earthward, down past sheer cliffs spangled with bright alpine flowers and stunted scrub.
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Timberline and alpine vegetation on the tropical and warm-temperate oceanic islands of the world: elevation, structure and floristics.
Azores temperate mixed forests
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These expeditions were the only ones to receive permission to attempt Everest from either Nepal or Tibet until the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research was granted permission from Nepal for two expeditions in 1952.
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Then, in the third and final leg, competitors skied downhill, through alpine-style gates, back to the Bergenhof.
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They feature winter sports held on snow or ice, such as Alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, figure skating, bobsledding and ice hockey.
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Loud should Clan Alpine then, Ring from her deepmost glen,
The Golden Book of Favorite Songs
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The Alpine orogeny has shaped the complex Pyrenean landform.
Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
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Mont Chery, almost its own little Alpine resort in miniature, is to the immediate east of Les Gets.
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Local specialities like marinated eel with shallots co-exist with transalpine dishes involving foie gras or oysters.
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In the summer, the hills offer a full range of mountain-biking opportunities, from serious alpine to cross-country routes.
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Windproof and breathable, it's made for ‘all alpine conditions.’
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Some of the characters believed to be correlated with DNA amount are alpine habitat, life history and breeding system.
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A drummer with a gold-mounted elk's tooth dangling from his chain ogled her, so she sat very prim of back, gazing out over flying villages that were like white-pine toys cut in the cisalpine Alps and invitingly more clipped and groomed than the straggling Indiana towns of yesterday.
Star-Dust
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The alpine vegetation is typically tundra, and includes discontinuous patches of low-growing heather (Ericaceae), sedge (Carex spp.), and mountain avens (Dryas hookeriana).
Northern transitional alpine forests
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Believe it or not, although I have gardened for years on a property that contains plants from fruit trees through small alpines, I do not own a pressure sprayer.
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It is a respectable challenge for climbers on their first independent Alpine forays and a good day out for the more experienced.
Times, Sunday Times
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The main town along the Alpine Road is Garmisch-Partenkichen, which first became famous as a host of the Winter Olympics back in 1936.
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The Mountain Bluebird is the only bluebird that nests in alpine parkland and high elevation open areas.
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The Nagano Special Olympics games consist of 79 events in seven sports - alpine skiing, cross country skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, speed skating, figure skating and floor hockey.
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High in the mountains, the scenery is almost alpine, with peaks reaching 3,000 ft and opportunities for some fine, uncrowded skiing on snow that, surprisingly, lasts until April, despite the area lying on the same latitude as Tuscany.
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Zahrobska, who won slalom gold at the 2007 worlds, is the first skier from the Czech Republic to win an Olympic Alpine medal since it began competing as an independent nation 16 years ago.
Germany's Maria Riesch wins women's slalom, second gold
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Say, the Austrians 'medal count starts weakly in alpine skiing like it did this time.
Sochi should consider changing the (Winter) Games
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Hardy plants, including alpines, need as much attention in their way as the old-fashioned tender bedders.
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The climate of Victoria is characterised by a range of different climate zones, from the hot, dry Mallee region of the northwest to the alpine snowfields in the northeast of Victoria.
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The government is negotiating to buy a share in the Transalpine Pipeline, which pumps Azeri oil from the Italian port of Trieste to Germany, in a bid to lower energy dependence on Russia.
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Sheep breeding is the main object of livestock farming, and Macedonians hold dear their exquisite sheep's milk yoghurt, ovcho kiselo mleko, especially that made by shepherds in alpine submontane dairies.
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Snow depth and spring temperatures in April and May had little impact on breeding phenology of alpine ptarmigan, but delayed snowmelt in June 1995 caused hardship.
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The lean, minimalist design is refreshingly at odds with the usual run of touristy alpine decoration and furnishings featured at other ski resort hotels.
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With four comms radios instantly available, we switch from McAlpines' company frequency straight to Heathrow.
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The leaves of oblong woodsia are densely covered with hairs on both surfaces giving a velvety appearance to younger leaves, whilst alpine woodsia leaves only have hairs on the lower surface.
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This brazen act of infidelity with Britain had them wondering if the Alpine air had gone to her head.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pleasant Alpine atmosphere. Very attentive service.
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Believe it or not, although I have gardened for years on a property that contains plants from fruit trees through small alpines, I do not own a pressure sprayer.
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The alpine spiraea grows here also and blossoms profusely with potentilla, erigeron, eriogonum, pentstemon, solidago, and an interesting species of onion, and four or five species of grasses and sedges.
The Yosemite
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Vegetative cover is extremely diverse: alpine environments contain various herb, lichen and shrub associations; whereas the subalpine environment has tree species such as lodgepole pine, subalpine fir, silver fir, grand fir, and Engelmann spruce.
Northwestern Forested Mountains ecoregion (CEC)
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As well as bedding plants, Mrs Malkinson grows a range of herbaceous perennials and alpines which are displayed at her front door.
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These mountains are part of the western Iberian old Hercynian system, which constitutes medium elevations with a smooth relief, scarcely influenced by the Alpine orogeny.
Northwest Iberian montane forests
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The lines, characterised by deep cuttings, high embankments, tunnels and viaducts, were known by locomotive crews as the Alpine Route.
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These races require competitors to climb and descend steep, sometimes dodgy off-piste terrain using climbing skins and lightweight alpine-touring skis, boots, and bindings.
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The area also has a range of fragile eco-systems and rare plants including button grass, alpine meadow and snow gum.
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He made extra income by collecting alpine plants, something he liked very much.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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Climbing alpine style - fast and light, with no set camps - they took on bitter winds and heavy-laden cornices of snow but summited in three and a half days.
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Important amphibian species occurring within the site include alpine salamander Salamandra atra and Alpine newt Triturus alpestris.
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
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The flora of these habitat mosaics is outstandingly species-rich and includes many rare northern species, such as alpine bartsia Bartsia alpina and bird's eye primrose Primula farinosa.
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Backcountry skiers, especially European glisse alpinists, wanted the benefits of this latest alpine gear, only with the option of lifting their heel for hiking.
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Bernhard and Rollier used Alpine sunbaths to heal wounds and surgical tuberculosis.
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Among the choicest delicacies offered by my summer garden are the jewel-like fruits of alpine strawberries (Fragaria vesca ‘Semperflorens’), also known by their romantic French name, fraises des bois.
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ancient transalpine Gaul was an area northwest of the Alps and included modern France and Belgium
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Having completed my first run, I suggest we warm up over cocoa at the alpine-style lodge.
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It consists of montane to altimontane beech, and mixed beech forests, submontane to altimontane spruce and spruce-fir forests, and alpine vegetation in the European Alps. It also includes small portions of submontane acidophilous oak and mixed oak forests, nemoral, sub - and oro-Mediterranean pine forests, and nival and sub-nival vegetation of the high mountains.
Alps conifer and mixed forests
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Of course, none of them can compare with the rock-bottom price of the cheapest self-drive, self-catering Alpine holidays, but that's not really the point.
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I have definitely been to "dicey" in alpine river environments trying to get to that one hole you were pretty sure no one had fished (for good reason).
Enough with the "Extreme" Fishing Already!
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Riders get a rest day on Monday before the two other Alpine stages, an individual time trial in Annecy on Thursday, and a ride up the dreaded Mont Ventoux on Saturday.
Contador climbs to lead of Tour de France with Stage 15 win
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Cold alpine gusts sweep the skyscape, sending the scudding clouds adrift.
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The endemic rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris) and the world's only alpine parrot, the kea (Nestor notabalis) probably evolved from lowland equivalents.
Southland montane grasslands
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Lush alpine meadows combine with soaring peaks, splashed with the saffron colours of swaths of birch trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the lower forest and bamboo zone mammals include the giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, tree hyrax Dendrohyrax arboreus, white-tailed mongoose Ichneumia albicauda, elephant Loxodonta africana, black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis, suni Neotragus moschatus, black-fronted duiker Cephalophus nigrifrons and leopard Panthera pardus (which has also been seen in the alpine zone).
Mount Kenya National Park and National Forest, Kenya
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In the centre of the country, the alpine moorland and montane forests of Mt. Kenya and the Aberdares conceal rare bongo antelope, red duiker, suni, bushbuck, Giant forest hog and colobus monkeys.
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The four sports were water skiing, sports parachuting, alpine skiing and gliding.
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The four acre garden provides a decorative home for many interesting and unusual plants including a large rock garden with rare alpines, colourful herbaceous borders, rhododendrons and a choice collection of tress and shrubs.
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Such phenomena are unusual, if not unique, in the extra-Alpine Mesozoic epicontinental seas, and calls for a rather special explanation.
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In the top of the wall, to soften the lines, Douglas has planted tough, low-growing alpines such as sedums, saxifrages and alpine pinks Dianthus alpinus.
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I love walking around its different areas, it has great charity shops, a supertram and even an alpine ski village.
The Sun
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In Renaissance Diplomacy Garrett Mattingly traces the development of the residential form of diplomacy among the five Italian city-states that eventually made its way into transalpine Europe.
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But tucked in amongst the rocky ledges and crevices was a rich variety of flowers, including two rare, strictly-alpine species, arctic draba and Lyall's rockress, that until now had eluded me.
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