How To Use Himalayas In A Sentence
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It helped her defuse a life-threatening situation in the Himalayas, when she and her friends were confronted by knife-carrying attackers.
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He described it in the 1930s as the richest bird habitat in peninsular India, comparable only with the Eastern Himalayas.
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To your left you pass Cho Oyu, Mount Everest, and Makalu, each summit spiking in a web of frosted snow and giving way to yet more distant summits, the shining whiteness becoming a filigree of ice trails as your eyes fall to the lower ridges and then to stepped fields and trees—the last great undestroyed forests of the Himalayas.
Vanity Fair - Enter the Dragon King
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There are countless yogis, jnanis, tapasvis, siddhas, and rishis who dwell in the sacred realm of the Himalayas.
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I didn't know what to make of his story of meeting two yetis in the high Himalayas.
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Excluding these three groups, Rosenberg found a strong correlation between geographic distance and genetic distance, as the clinal theory would predict, but also found that the three main kinds of barriers -- oceans, the Sahara, and the Himalayas -- "adds an equivalent amount of genetic distance as traveling approximately 3,100 km on the same side of the barrier.
More revelations about the genetics of race
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In Indian legend, every rishi, or yogi, who possesses divine power has a retreat in the mountain vastness of the Himalayas.
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Yes, zany classicalism was our keynote this time; also snatched up like precious gems was Ralph Ellis' K2: Quest of the Gods y'see, Alexander the Great was looking for the Pyramid Treasure in the Himalayas and Felice Vinci's The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales, which title strikes me rather as a subtitle in search of a lurid phrase, but has the virtue of clarity.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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Deccan, which make up the southern half of the Empire; the great plain which stretches southward from the Himalayas and constitutes what was formerly known as Hindustan; and a three-sided tableland which lies between, in the center of the empire, and is drained by a thousand rivers, which carry the water off as fast as it falls and leave but little to refresh the earth.
Modern India
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She tackled the Himalayas at eighty-eight, occasionally allowing porters to carry her pick-a-back across impossible terrain.
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They may have the Himalayas in all their splendour laid out before them, walks in pine-scented forests, lakes of a blue you can die for, wild flowers that would make mafia dons go gaga, and what is it that they demand?
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He gave a fascinating slide show on climbing in the Himalayas.
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A project in the Himalayas diverts 6 million litres of sewage per day that would otherwise be dumped into the Ganges and uses it to raise fodder crops.
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At this height, among the Himalayas, the sky looms like a low ceiling and the snow does not have far to fall.
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An alternative view on uplift and climate change proposes that the Quaternary glaciations in the Himalayas could have enhanced uplift.
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Climbers see the Himalayas as the final frontier.
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Likewise, the bhikkhuni order never made the demanding passage across the Himalayas into Tibet.
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Early in his quest to save India's wild tigers, he had heard about a site in the Himalayas of Nepal where Buddha is said to have given his life to feed a starving tigress and her cubs.
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Even when they were filming in remote parts of the Himalayas, ‘there were thousands of people turning up and having family picnics and singalongs and wandering around on the set.’
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In their undeveloped corner of the Himalayas, these people still dress in traditional tribal clothes, barter their produce and scratch a living from land that would be discarded as uncultivable in most Western countries.
Daniel Keeler: The Big Green Gamble
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The early problem of defaults on the so-called sub-prime mortgages was merely a foothill leading to the Himalayas of today's foreclosures, where banks and primary investors stand to lose billions upon billions, one hundred percent of each of many of the loans they have made on residential real estate in the United States, and literally thousands upon thousands of otherwise normal middle class families are being put out on the street.
How to Fix the Foreclosure Mess (Because America Is Like Secretariat)
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The Himalayas lie on the south-western border of China.
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I had been to the Himalayas before but I'd never experienced high altitudes.
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The walking trails are superb with tall pines and majestic deodar and spectacular views of the brilliant Himalayas.
A Guide To Shimla
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To his Russian Orthodoxy he added freemasonry, spiritualism, and a huge dose of the Yoga, Hinduism and Buddhism that were a legacy of the many years he lived in the Himalayas.
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My 40th birthday was celebrated in the Himalayas, where I took valuable pictures of the red goral, one of the world's most endangered animals.
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It shows, besides, some of the gemmed and enamelled work and parcel-gilt ware for which that territory, hidden away among the Himalayas, is so celebrated.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
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A photo of Reinhold Messner's feet minus seven toes lost to frostbite during a climb of Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas (his brother also died on the climb) raises the question of whether alpinism can actually be called a real sport at all, assuming sport to be a game in which losing doesn't necessarily equal death or disfigurement.
Why Climb a Mountain?
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After 6 weeks in the Himalayas, I am deeply tanned from the neck up (and wrists out) and I am 21 pounds lighter.
Yes, I'm Back - NASA Watch
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The Himalayas, towering as high as 8,854 m above sea level, form the highest continental mountains in the world.
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After hallucinating from oxygen deprivation in the Himalayas, Haver vowed to ski the Seven Summits.
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It is only in the lap of the Himalayas that he found real peace, spiritual bliss and intellectual enlightenment.
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P. cembra, the Swiss stone pine, has a range which extends eastwards from the Alps; and P. gerardiana is a native of the Himalayas.
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They predict that in the next half a decade or so, the Himalayas could experience intense flooding as mountain lakes overflow with water from melting glaciers and snowfields.
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The Himalayas lie on the south-western border of China.
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His father had brought home a large and curious assortment of feathers from the Himalayas; Mr. Grant sent far and wide for further supplies of suitable and distinctive material, and then he devoted himself to the task of dressing hundred after hundred of fly-hooks of every known pattern and of every size, from the great three-inch hook for heavy spring water to the dainty little "finnock" hook scarcely larger than a trout fly.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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Most of the ice loss is coming from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Alaska, Patagonia, the Himalayas, and the smaller ice masses surrounding the main Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
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The Himalayas is the highest and one of the most beautiful mountain ranges of the world.
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These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas
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The foothills of the Himalayas were sharply etched against the pale blue sky.
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Chemrey Monastery, in Ladakh, perches at 3000m on a rocky mound among the arid mountain tops of the Himalayas.
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The glaciers of the Himalayas, which feed the great rivers watering the farmland keeping Asia alive, are disappearing.
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He seemed in a dream as he recounted the trips that he had taken to the Inca ruins in Peru, to Nepal, hidden in the Himalayas, the Pharaonic ruins in Egypt and the safaris in East Africa.
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The Subtropical Westerly Jet is found to the south of the central Asian mountain massifs, in contrast to the boreal summer when the Tropical Easterly Jet occupies the upper troposphere to the south of the Himalayas.
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Carved to represent Mt. Kailasa, the home of the god Shiva in the Himalayas, it is the largest monolithic structure in the world, carved top-down from a single rock.
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They leave their homes, some barefoot, to join icy, sometimes untrodden trails through the Himalayas that line the border of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and Nepal.
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Both India and China suffer long-term anxieties over water, now rendered more acute by the rapid melting of the glaciers of the Himalayas (from which all of the great rivers of Asia derive to some degree).
New Statesman
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He gave a fascinating slide show on climbing in the Himalayas.
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Apart from African history, I show great interest in the Himalayas.
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The Birds of Australia, which is in the stately home's library together with Gould's The Birds of Europe and The Birds of the Himalayas, is one of the earliest attempts to describe the flora and fauna of the Antipodes.
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It was former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who once memorably observed that for centuries the Himalayas have protected us, and now we must protect them.
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After becoming the youngest luge participant ever as a 16-year-old at the 1998 Nagano Games in Japan, Keshavan returned home to the Himalayas and went to work waiting tables.
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The southernmost is the outer Himalayas, also known as the Siwaliks, which lies adjacent to the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
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Spiritual leaders gather in Wesak Valley, a mythic place high in the Himalayas.
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His last hike was up Mount Annapurna, in Asia's snowcapped Himalayas. At 26,545 feet, its peak is the 10th highest in the world. It is the mountain that inspired him to start climbing.
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This dense, multilayered narrative especially fascinated me because I, too, went to boarding school in the Himalayas.
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Even those who have climbed in the Alps or the lower Himalayas, find it hard to understand the appeal of such a brutal and capricious mountain.
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The introduction to this book said that the Himalayas have formed an impassable barrier in the distribution of Eastern wildlife.
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We spent the summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas
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Just two months into his Fulbright fellowship, he already has a quiverful of stories about birdcalls in the Himalayas.
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Entering the plateau of the great central region, one realises why Yaks, the famed hairy oxen-like bovines of the Himalayas, are some of the only animals who can exists on such scraggy vegetation.
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He is known for skiing big alpine faces, couloirs, and even serious ice climbs, from the Alps to the Himalayas.
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A study has revealed that a small warbler [from the Indian Himalayas] is now so good at discriminating eggs on the basis of size that cuckoos no longer parasitize the species.
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Two rivers, not far apart, begin north of the Himalayas; together they enfold and drain both slopes of that great range.
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But then, in one of those astonishingly swift changes for which the Himalayas are renowned, the rain stopped, the sky cleared, and sun shone brightly.
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Aakash, venerated sage and healer, is the founder of Prakriti -- an abundant farm in the Himalayas.
The Seduction of Silence: Summary and book reviews of The Seduction of Silence by Bem Le Hunte.
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From the duns, the terrain rises steadily toward the main ranges of the Himalayas.
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In the aftermath of 'Himalayagate,' we glaciologists are hypersensitive to egregious errors in supposedly authoritative sources," Graham Cogley of Trent University in Canada told the BBC, referring to a debunked claim that the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.
FOXNews.com
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The flour is used in Latin America and in the Himalayas to produce a variety of flat breads (for example, tortillas and chapaties).
4 Grain Amaranths
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After three years of negotiations, the country is opening its section of the Himalayas to a foreign-owned heli-skiing operation - the first permanent commercial heli service in the world's greatest range.
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… While in the Himalayas there are several areas that are erodable, so if you have a SAZ zone in that area it means you are paying special attention to it.
Questions and Answers: M.S. Swaminathan
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The introduction to this book said that the Himalayas have formed an impassable barrier in the distribution of Eastern wildlife.
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The introduction to this book said that the Himalayas have formed an impassable barrier in the distribution of Eastern wildlife.
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Millions of people in the Himalayas and Andes suffer from goitre and cretinism as glaciation, heavy rainfall and melting snow regularly leach mountain soils of their iodine content.
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The introduction to this book said that the Himalayas have formed an impassable barrier in the distribution of Eastern wildlife.
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It is such lands which I have alluded to as abounding in the Himalayas, and which are, at present, of so little value either to the Government, or to the natives themselves.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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Uprising from this blue interminable distance, the first crumplings of the foothills showed like purple velvet, and from these again the giant Himalayas -- the "home of the greater gods" -- sprang aloft, in a medley of lovely lines and hues, till they reached the uttermost north where the hoar head of Nanga Parbat soared twenty-five thousand feet into the blue.
The Great Amulet
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The introduction to this book said that the Himalayas have formed an impassable barrier in the distribution of Eastern wildlife.
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The fabled state of Kashmir lies in majestic isolation amid the towering mountain ranges of the Himalayas and Karakoram that separate the torrid plains of north India from the steppes and deserts of Central Asia.
Eric Margolis: Almost Forgotten: The World's Most Dangerous Conflict
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India also has feuded with China for years over the border they share in the Himalayas, where China continues to claim land that is now governed by India.
Asia's New Arms Race
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In Indian legend, every rishi, or yogi, who possesses divine power has a retreat in the mountain vastness of the Himalayas.
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About five years ago a climber in the Himalayas claims to have seen a pair of yetis hanging out.
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The Himalayas make Nepal a favorite destination for mountain climbers.
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But even soldiers from the rugged Balkans were unprepared for the Hindu Kush, a towering range extending southwest from the Karakorum and Himalayas.
Alexander the Great
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Yes, upon seeing some people during my visits to the Himalayas. They seem to have an inner peace and tranquility that we do not. Rajinikanth
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Despite the alien culture, I felt remarkably at home in Nepal, and as I flew over the Himalayas it was with sadness that I glimpsed their silent magnitude for the last time.
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Tibet wasn't on my itinerary yet there I was crossing the vastly hued Himalayas heading to Qomolangma or as the British coined it, Mt. Everest.
Buddy Winston: Lhasa love
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The Eastern Himalaya EBA, which also overlaps with part of the Indo-Burma Hotspot, has nearly 20 endemic species, including four that are fully endemic to the Himalayas: the chestnut-breasted partridge (Arborophila mandellii, VU) and rusty-throated wren babbler (Spelaeornis badeigularis, VU), plus the white-throated tit (Aegithalos niveogularis) and orange bullfinch (Pyrrhula aurantiaca).
Biological diversity in the Himalayas
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Either way, none of us will be the worse for the truly incredible journey to inquire and discover what can be surmised about Jesus 'Lost Years by taking the questions right to the ancient temple of the Hindus called Jagannath in Puri, India, where some say Jesus spent several years (the "some" include the present spiritual leader of the Hindu religion, the Shankaracharya) and a Buddhist monastery high in the Himalayas in Ladakh, India, where an ancient scroll has long been held to exist that purportedly answers all the questions about the Missing Years of Jesus (see: www. jesus-in-india-the-movie.com)
Paul Davids: Jesus' Lost Years May Finally Have Been Found
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Born in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India, she is a trained nuclear physicist.
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That morning our guide, Kundan, had led Derek and I through rhododendron trees sprouting pink and red flowers in the April Himalayas.
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He gave a fascinating slide show on climbing in the Himalayas.
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He had made several trips to the Himalayas and was working on a project to ski the world's three highest peaks, Mount Everest, K2 and Kangchenjunga.
Fredrik Ericsson Dead: Climber Reportedly Killed At K-2
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Thus, the Himalayas can be considered a region of domesticated barley diversification.
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The Buddha was born in the Terai lowlands near the foothills of the Himalayas just inside the borders of modern-day Nepal.
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One of his mots appears on several quotation sites: ‘Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.’
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That effectively signs the extinction warrant for about half of all animal and plant life on the planet; it means coral reefs are gone due to ocean acidification; it means ice-free summers in the Arctic, sets both Greenland and Antarctica on the melting path to multimeter sea-level rise; and it means the glaciers in the Himalayas are doomed.
Tara Lohan: 5 Things You Need to Know About the Big Climate Meeting in Copenhagen
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The Asia Society has some very good stuff on glacial melting in the Himalayas on their website, under the title "On thinner Ice" and a useful general report on Asian water security that's online as a PDF.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China's Water Woes Revisited: The State of Play in 2011
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Ladakh is watered by the River Indus on its way down to the Punjab, and many a grain of sand in the Indian Ocean may well have once formed part of a stone in the land behind the Himalayas.
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Crustal thickening under the Himalayas reached a maximum during the Pliocene, although the mountains continued to grow (as they are still growing today).
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The original blackcurrants grew in N. Europe and in Asia as far east as the Himalayas.
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The sun had just set behind the foothills of the Himalayas and in the warm haze of the afterglow, tens of thousands of Hindus were massing on the bridges and walkways of the waterfront.
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Farther east, the Indo-Iranian branch stretches to the Himalayas.
The English Is Coming!
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The same remark applies to the Russian Ballet; the Yugo-Slav handbell-ringers; the vegetarian Indian-club swingers from the Karakoram Himalayas; the polyphonic gong-players from North Borneo; the synthetic quarter-tone quartette from San Domingo; the anthropophagous back-chat comedians from the Solomon Islands; not to mention a host of other interesting companies, troupes, corroborees and pow-wows which are now in our midst for the purpose of cementing the confraternity of nations.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11
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Bittner separated his specimens of tyrolensiform daonellids found in the Himalayas from D. (A.) tyrolensis based on their lack of a regular pattern of trifurcate costae.
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These mountains do not compare with the Himalayas.
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The Sherpas are the toughest people in the Himalayas and they do all the donkey work for most of the climbing expeditions in the Nepal and Tibet areas.
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We arrived in Ranikhet, located 1,830 m above sea level, encircled by tall pine trees and soaring deodars, commanding views of the Himalayas glistening white in the distance.
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Two months earlier my journey had begun at Hardwar, the gateway to the Himalayas, where the Ganges debouches into the plains.
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With the reassurance it would be no challenge for people who had made treks in the Himalayas, she waved them goodbye.
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According to legend, all the sages once gathered in the Himalayas.
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The foothills of the Himalayas were sharply etched against the pale blue sky.
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Ronnie Robb was walking through a paddy field in the foothills of the Himalayas when the wasp stung him.
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Recalling the Cumbrian floods, the pair said recently: "We are both in total agreement - the rain that fell that night was as ferocious and as scary as any monsoon we'd ever encountered in the Himalayas.
News round-up
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Also on display are large bronze castings of Buddhist tantric deities from the Himalayas.
Mike Ragogna: The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana: A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman
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A British team of mountaineers led by Dr Charles Evans had conquered mighty Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, up to that point the highest unclimbed peak in the world, reaching within five vertical feet of the summit.
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It will carry the Ark down south of Mount Demavend, and the Elburz range, and over the Persian plateau, and if we can escape from it, as I hope, by getting away over Beluchistan, we can go directly over India and skirt the southern side of the Himalayas.
The Second Deluge
