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The Natural History Museum celebrates the centenary of the Terra Nova with an exhibition of journals, photographs, specimens, documents and a life-sized recreation of Scott's base-camp hut.
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Without the base-camp of a home, a love, and a family to return to.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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Constructing a base in Mars orbit creates a base-camp for later surface expeditions.
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Without the base-camp of a home, a love, and a family to return to.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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Without the base-camp of a home, a love, and a family to return to.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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Dial down the distance, and try to arrange a base-camp trip if you're lugging around rods or guns.
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So too would their base-camp and eventually their ships in orbit.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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Sandy Hill's defense of her notorious base-camp cappuccino maker is worth the cover price all by itself, with or without a word from Jon Krakauer.
Stephanie Losee: Return to Thin Air — Without Jon Krakauer? 2008
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Expedition Everest is an elaborately themed rollercoaster that is meant to evoke a trip up from a Nepalese base-camp to the summit of Everest, where the Yeti lurk.
Boing Boing: January 22, 2006 - January 28, 2006 Archives 2006
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It is about introducing political discussion, democratic debate, umrabulo, learning from each other in the midst of every situation - whether in an isolated camp in Angola, or a prison cell in apartheid South Africa, or a base-camp in a cave in Ingwavuma.
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