Yves Saint Laurent pillaged the Steppes and the Far East.
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Atolls were destroyed, steppes contaminated, and fallout spread around the world.
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DNA from the men, however, all traced back to the steppes.
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Enormous, empty, uncolonized steppes—anatomical landmasses untouched by metastasis—stretched out in between.
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They begin in barren landscapes, on empty plains and steppes, on interrupted journeys.
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The flavor profile matches, and some bears do in fact live on steppes.
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SIX THOUSAND years ago wild horses roamed the plains and steppes of the world.
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Bereaved and exiled by traitors, the hero Guo Jing grows up on the Mongolian steppes.
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Felt was (and is) a sartorial staple of the Central Asian steppes, essential for warmth.
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Felt was (and is) a sartorial staple of the Central Asian steppes, essential for warmth.
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A conservation program has re-introduced these horses to the Eurasian steppes, and are rebounding quite nicely.
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Like their forebears on the steppes, they'll have only to reach for a tool to find it.
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Not to mention the city actually closed the Spanish Steppes after a €1.5 million ($1.7 million) renovation.
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They found the first carcasses in late December, on the frozen steppes of Mongolia's western Khovd province.
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Bethesda's open world RPG sets players loose in a freely explorable domain of snowy peaks and rocky steppes.
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Should we care about the Amazon rainforest any more than, say, the Indonesian rainforest or the Siberian steppes?
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I closed my eyes and saw our lives happily entwined on the stark and wind-swept Siberian steppes.
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A shot of a barren stretch of desert slowly reveals Roman ruins; vast steppes become prehistoric agricultural settlements.
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Tarpan hail from the Russian steppes, play primal as fuck death crust, and rage against the horrors of war.
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He made his way there via stops in North Dakota's oil fields, Colorado's coal towns, and Mongolia's vast steppes.
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I've seen record rains in Kazakhstan make the steppes there impassable to travel for the first time in memory.
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She remembers seeing photos of the lifeless animals spread over the steppes of Kazakhstan: "It was horrible," Milner-Gulland says.
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A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying three astronauts from the International Space Station has landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
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The arena, built from FIFA funding, has a 5,000-capacity and an artificial pitch against the backdrop of the Mongolian steppes.
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There in Long Canyon, on the edge of Nevada's Ruby Mountains, ridgetops lay flattened, and hills ribboned with carved out steppes.
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About 5,000 years ago, a mysterious tribe poured into Europe and Asia from the steppes of modern-day Russia and Ukraine.
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That group consisted of herders from the Asian steppes, whose skeletons and genes are known from their burial mounds called kurgans.
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Cochrane Journal COCHRANE, Chile — An eagle soared over the lone house atop an arid hill in the steppes of Patagonia Park.
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Its large mass and efficient metabolism meant it could make better use of the low-nutrition foods found in the open steppes.
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China has a sweeping vision for its remote steppes, Venezuela's president offers to negotiate, and President Trump feuds with his intelligence chiefs.
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The practice's exact origins are unclear, but it may have originated thousands of years ago in the steppes near the Silk Road.
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A remote part of the steppes of Central Asia is inhabited by a small number of hardy souls, like the horsemen above.
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Seventy-year-old Bob Long of Boise, Idaho, won the Mongol Derby, a grueling 1,000-kilometer competition across the steppes of Mongolia.
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Seventy-year-old Bob Long of Boise, Idaho, won the Mongol Derby, a grueling 1,000-kilometer competition across the steppes of Mongolia.
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A few centuries earlier, nomads from the steppes of what is now Russia turned up in Eastern Europe with horses and wagons.
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Kelly, who landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan late Tuesday, has spent more consecutive time in space — 340 days — than any other American.
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But the same warrior women of the vast steppes of Central Asia also influenced other cultures who came into contact with Scythian nomads.
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Then, about 250,2000 years ago, another wave of people arrived, descended from the horse-riding nomads of what are now the Russian steppes.
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The Russian space agency Roskosmos tweeted pictures of the two astronauts after rescue crews collected them from the steppes of Kazakhstan, where they landed.
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And then he has a "wolfish" (or "wolf of the steppes") beast in him, lashing out at convention and full of passion and rage.
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The barely inhabited steppes of Central Asia — near the one point on earth farthest from a sea or ocean — are in for a transformation.
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The Przewalski's horse (pronounced "peh-je-vahl-skee"), a living population of "wild" horses native to the Eurasian steppes, are descended from the Botai horses.
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Horsemeat is very popular in Kazakhstan, a country filled with steppes and flatlands where horses have been essential to long-distance travel throughout its history.
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Its dramatic minor key hearkens back to not only the great flamenco ballads of the Andalusian steppes, but also the elegiac fado music of Portugal.
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"Mammoth species roamed the steppes of North America and Western Europe from about 100,000 and 14,000 years ago," explained the Solway Firth Partnership, in its statement.
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This is kopkari, also known as buzkashi, a sport originating at least 1,000 years ago with the nomadic Turkic groups who inhabited the Central Asian steppes.
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I think the Steppes are not the desert; although they're nearly as vast and imposing, there's far more life there and possibility for a sustainable society.
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A bird that started out in the steppes of Western Asia is now a worldwide species in the majority of habitations and towns across the world.
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But deep down this was a scrap about whether ranchers and miners whose great-grandfathers toiled to tame the sagebrush steppes are trustworthy stewards of the land.
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You can explore the Mongolian steppes with a group of yak herders, visit the Maasai tribe in Kenya, and travel the Malay Archipelago with Borneo's Bajau tribe.
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A clue is that 7 percent of ancient DNA samples from Europe and the steppes contain DNA of the plague microbe that caused medieval Europe's Black Death.
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Here's the latest: The barely inhabited steppes of Central Asia — near the one point on earth farthest from a sea or ocean — are in for a transmogrification.
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In an exclusive video given to The Verge by PBS, Kelly is seen trying to walk on a straight line right after landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
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And though I showed up for the carnal bits, I stayed for the aurochs horns and "grassy steppes" — detailed lessons about Neanderthal life right alongside the racy education.
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But Chinese geese, which migrate from the the frozen steppes of Mongolia and Russia to the more temperate areas of the Yangtze River in southern China, are in trouble.
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Stasiuk, a tall, slender man in his late fifties, began by reciting in Polish the opening lines of "The Akkerman Steppes," a romantic sonnet that describes the Crimean landscape.
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Some 25,000 years ago, prehistoric humans gathered dozens of mammoth bones from the Russian steppes and arranged them in a massive circular structure for reasons that are still mysterious.
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ALMATY (Reuters) - Rising incongruously above the steppes of southeastern Kazakhstan is a structure as famed for the myths that surround as for the sound it produces — a single, singing dune.
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A Turkic tribe named after a 10th-century ancestral chief, they came from the steppes east of the Caspian Sea, where they converted from their traditional shamanistic beliefs to Islam.
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While the Beaker culture spread from society to society on the mainland, it was brought to Britain by immigrants descended from the nomads of what are now the Russian steppes.
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The piercing, fable-like novella (translated by Andrew Bromfield) starkly captures the damage wrought by Cold War-era atomic testing on the environment and people of the steppes of Kazakhstan.
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Yet, since 1978, China has planted at least 66 billion of them across its arid northern territories, hoping to transform its sandy steppes and yellow dunes into a Great Green Wall.
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They took her out wearing thin canvas sneakers and a gray jacket—clothes she would wear all through the first winter at a Gulag camp in the frozen steppes of Kazakhstan.
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Grasslands dotted with guanacos, a cousin of the camel, give way to sprawling steppes and forests, deep-blue waterways and majestic snow-capped mountains at the doorsteps of breathtaking ice fields.
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"I'm obsessed with bees and honey, and my husband and I spent our honeymoon trekking across the Anatolian Steppes in Eastern Turkey, staying with beekeepers and tasting honey along the way."
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In 1944, Stalin, using the pretext of perceived collaboration with the Germans, ordered the deportation of the entire population of Chechnya—half a million people—to the distant steppes of Kazakhstan.
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I never consider with regret whatever imaginary forbearer of mine, two millennia ago, who perhaps pulled a cart and a mule out of some old Roman province toward the Central Asian steppes.
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"The ideas and images of Amazons were modeled on flesh-and-blood warrior women—real nomadic horsewomen-archers of the steppes of Eurasia," Stamford classicist and Amazon expert Adrienne Mayor tells Broadly.
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Two days later, I was on one of the propeller-driven planes that shuttles between the oil field and Atyrau, a provincial capital on the steppes that has become Kazakhstan's oil city.
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This year, at 87, she ventured to Outer Mongolia, where she visited a nomadic tribe whose rural way of life was disappearing because of climate change and the desertification of the steppes.
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Yet the outcome was far from the rout achieved on the Russian steppes: rather, Mr Correa's candidate, Lenín Moreno, achieved a narrow victory, by 51% to 49% over Guillermo Lasso, a conservative banker.
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One grasps at legacy tableaux: office towers emptied of bankers, lawyers, and accountants; crypto-utopian settlements on hurricane-ravaged Caribbean islands; open-air barns out on the steppes, stacked with bitcoin-mining computers.
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But one thing is obvious right now: These people must have been extraordinarily resilient and resourceful in order to construct such elaborate bone structures in the midst of the frigid Ice Age steppes.
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She believes the Khangai yak -- an indigenous wild species found in Western Mongolia -- could preserve the country's landscape, because they're gentler on the fragile steppes, and help save the herder families' nomadic lifestyle.
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The Investigative Committee, Russia's version of the F.B.I., identified the suspect as Ramil Shamsutdinov, a private serving in the Trans-Baikal Territory, a remote area of mountains and steppes along Russia's border with China.
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Przewalski's horses, characterized by a stocky build and an erect mane, are listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list, having been extinct in their native Asian steppes until 1992.
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Beginning in 1986, when baseball was first recognized as an Olympic sport, youth clubs with an eye toward gold-medal glory popped up across the country and diamonds were carved into the tundra and steppes.
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"The Eagle Huntress" may be driven by its main character and her story, but it's also a nature documentary, reveling in spectacular images of the Central Asian steppes and the snow peaks that surround them.
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Each year at this time, the gauchos — South America's cowboys and shepherds — leave behind their portable huts on the grassy, wind-swept steppes and drive their flocks home to the large ranches that dot the island.
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Last year, Don DeLillo published an exemplary preapocalyptic novel, "Zero K," narrated by the son of a billionaire who's sunk his hopes, his fortune, his wife and himself into cryonic storage beneath the Central Asian steppes.
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GREAT GOBI B, Mongolia (Reuters) - A quarter-century-old project to repopulate the steppes of Mongolia with wild horses was kept alive as four animals made the long trip back to their ancestral home from Prague Zoo.
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Later still (around 230 million years) even the scrublands die back to be replaced by the open prairies/steppes/savannas/pampas/other local words for grasslands that dominate the world ever since, which exaggerated the grazing traits.
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Nomadic invaders from the steppes of Central Asia, the Seljuqs produced nothing so grand as the pyramids or the Greek Parthenon, but they nevertheless presided over a cosmopolitan age of terrific artistic and intellectual vitality and innovation.
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So for this salad, the national dish, flaky fatir is torn by hand, then tossed in a milky dressing of kurut, staunchly salty sun-dried yogurt traditionally carried by nomadic shepherds as fuel to survive the steppes.
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The Greek historian Herodotus recorded the consumption of kumiss, fermented mare's milk, in the fifth century B.C.; the sour beverage, heavy as buttermilk but bubbly as champagne, is still drunk today on the steppes of Central Asia.
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The article also misstated the geographic area where migrants from the steppes of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia significantly replaced existing communities of hunter-gatherers and early farmers, as reported in an academic paper on the migration.
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The article also misstated the geographical area where migrants from the steppes of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia significantly replaced existing communities of hunter-gatherers and early farmers, as reported in an academic paper on the migration.
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As the steppes roll on below, the men point out dirt roads that they fear might be barred to motor vehicles in a national monument, or creek-crossings that might be closed, forcing ranchers on 60-mile detours.
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The program, opening with Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia" and ending with Stravinsky's "Firebird" Suite, was particularly well suited to show off a superb woodwind section, especially the oboist Olga Tomilova and the flutist Maxim Rubtsov.
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Many historians had placed the origins of cannabis smoking on the ancient Central Asian steppes, but these arguments relied solely on a passage from a single text from the late first millennium BC, written by the Greek historian Herodotus.
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"It is one of the largest and one of the very first in the Gobi (desert), in the open steppes, which is a difficult environment to operate in from an infrastructure, safety and technical point of view," he added.
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A senior official had told reporters ahead of the visit that Battulga wanted Trump to name the Mongolian steed - a traditional symbolic gift for visiting dignitaries, who typically leave them behind to be cared for on the northern steppes.
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Video: YouTube/Roscosmos/Tsenki & NASA TV According to Ruslan Imankulov, a spokesman for Kazakhstan's emergency situations committee, the spent boosters jettisoned during the rocket's ascent landed about 375 miles (600 kilometers) from Baikonur in the steppes near the city of Zhezkazgan.
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They intermingled with the indigenous occupants of tropical highlands and ice-covered steppes, were conquered by nomadic tribes who installed their own rulers on the Dragon Throne, and over time merged together into a country with a host of culinary influences.
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"Instead of viewing Amazon myths in terms of male violence against women, the ancient literary, artistic, and archaeological evidence reveals that egalitarian nomadic societies actually existed on the steppes, and that this lifestyle evoked awe and fascination among the Greeks."
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In November, shortly before blasting off on a Soyuz rocket from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome on the steppes of Kazakhstan — the only spaceport capable of sending astronauts to the International Space Station — he took a moment to describe his mission for posterity.
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Captured by Bariushaa Munkhtsog, a wildlife biologist based at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, the video is a rare window into the world of this elusive wild cat, also known as the Pallas's cat, which is native to the steppes of central Eurasia.
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Although drawings were a lifelong passion, he also built what he termed "subcollections" of 18th-century French faience (a type of tin-glazed earthenware), bronzes from the ancient Eurasian steppes, medieval European ornaments and architectural models, all of which found homes in museums.
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BUENOS AIRES, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Argentine power generator YPF Luz, a subsidiary of state oil company YPF, said on Tuesday it had clinched $150 million in loans to build a wind farm in Santa Cruz, on the country's famously breezy southern steppes.
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Some fought on the side of the Red Army in World War I. In 1937, under Stalin's orders, about 200,000 Koryo Saram were rounded up on suspicion of sympathizing with imperial Japan and shipped by freight train to the steppes of Central Asia.
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About 5,000 years ago, a "relatively sudden" mass migration of nomadic herders from the east — the steppes of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia — swept in and almost entirely replaced existing communities of hunter-gatherers and early farmers in Central and Northern Europe.
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Chinese scholars say both the Uighurs and the Yugurs (sometimes called the Yellow Uighurs) are descendants of an ethnic group called the Huihu, a Turkic-speaking nomadic people who had an empire in the eighth to ninth centuries on the steppes of present-day Mongolia.
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From the hot streets of Tunis to the windy steppes of Siberia; from the orderly, granite buildings of Aberdeen, Scotland, to the raucous alleyways of Salvador, Brazil; and, yes, from the turquoise seas of French Polynesia to the wintery sprawl of Canada's fourth-largest city.
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Ganganbaigaali moved from Beijing to New York City for school several years ago (a route that's landed him at Carnegie Hall—multiple times), but his heart clearly still lies in the steppes, and he's become a tireless advocate for the scene and sounds he left behind.
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Though they have yet to put out so much as a demo, Aakrosh have already won themselves a loyal following in their hometown of Kathmandu and throughout Nepal, fans embracing their take on old school/technical death metal like a tahr to the Himalayan steppes (look it up).
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It depicts Amazons in the customary garb of the Scythians, a group of nomadic tribes who roamed the steppes of the Caucasus Mountains between 900 and 200 BC, and were most recently the subject of Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia, a wide-ranging exhibition at the British Museum.
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If you were a nomadic horseman living on the steppes of Essos enjoying a lifestyle of raiding, raping, and plundering, why on earth would you want to follow a foreign, dragon-riding queen onto a bunch of boats to travel to a distant, poorer continent and start raiding there?
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For example, ancient DNA research seems to indicate that about 5,000 years ago, when Europe was populated with a mix of hunter-gatherer groups and early farmers, a group of outsiders suddenly arrived — nomadic herders from the Asian steppes — and within a relatively short time their own ancestry became prevalent.
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At one point, being the only foreigner — and so a guest of honor — I was invited to ride on the truck that drove onto the field to drop the goat and start each round of kopkari, a sport that originated with the nomadic herders who inhabited these steppes 1,000 years ago.
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There was a vogue for the transplanting of Shakespearean tragic motifs into Russian soil, exemplified by Turgenev's "Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District" (1849) and "A Lear of the Steppes" (1870), although Leskov's novella-length tale claws deeper than Turgenev, beyond his lyricism and ennui, and enters an elemental wildness that seems touched by the witchery of Shakespeare's original.
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" Like Mayor, she wants to dig around in the shadowy corners of myth: "There are very few equestrian statues of women," she says, "even though women have such a connection with horses — especially anyone of Western Asia, Central Europe, the Steppes, Iran, Northern India, Northern Africa, all those parts of the world where horses evolved right next to human beings.
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On my shoulders there pounces the wolfhound age,but no wolf by blood am I;better, like a fur cap, thrust me into the sleeveof the warmly fur-coated Siberian steppes,... Lead me into the night where the Enisey flows, and the pine reaches up to the star,because no wolf by blood am I,and injustice has twisted my mouth.
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I love slipping from one biome to another, sometimes with natural change (like slowly climbing steppes as you approach mountains) and sometimes man-made (like the man-made tunnels that connect a handful of places together.) At its best, the game weaves music into this shift in location—just climb down from Lestallum's power plant to its open-air markets, and listen listen as a horn section gradually joins the lonesome guitar.
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