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| Tango01 | 26 Aug 2020 2:21 p.m. PST |
… All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II "Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of straggly pine and birch forests scattered with sleeping bears and hungry wolves; steep-sided mountains; white-water rivers that pour in torrents through the valleys; a hundred thousand icy bogs. This forest is the last and greatest of Earth's wildernesses. It stretches from the furthest tip of Russia's arctic regions as far south as Mongolia, and east from the Urals to the Pacific: five million square miles of nothingness, with a population, outside a handful of towns, that amounts to only a few thousand people. When the warm days do arrive, though, the taiga blooms, and for a few short months it can seem almost welcoming. It is then that man can see most clearly into this hidden world–not on land, for the taiga can swallow whole armies of explorers, but from the air. Siberia is the source of most of Russia's oil and mineral resources, and, over the years, even its most distant parts have been overflown by oil prospectors and surveyors on their way to backwoods camps where the work of extracting wealth is carried on…"
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Armand |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 26 Aug 2020 2:49 p.m. PST |
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Extrabio1947  | 26 Aug 2020 3:31 p.m. PST |
That is an absolutely amazing article. It's almost inconceivable. |
| Choctaw | 27 Aug 2020 6:20 a.m. PST |
That is simply incredible. |
| Tango01 | 27 Aug 2020 11:43 a.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it boys! (smile) Amicalement
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 Legion 4 | 30 Aug 2020 11:29 a.m. PST |
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