Bulgarians Conquer Antarctic Top
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Sports: 28 December 2004, Tuesday. Bulgaria's alpinists Lyubomir Ivanov and Doychin Vassilev conquered the Antarctic Mizia peak.
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Bulgaria is located in eastern Europe, with a long strip of land along the Black Sea.
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An article last Thursday about cold-weather exercise misstated the accomplishment of Lewis Gordon Pugh last July while swimming near the North Pole. He completed a kilometer in just under 19 minutes, not a mile.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, was the mountaineer who, with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.
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Yelena Isinbayeva wins the battle of the Russians and sets a new world record.
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Sports: 4 November 2004, Thursday. Bulgaria is off for an Antarctic mission to improve the mapping of the mountain massif of Tangra, situated on Livingston Island in the South Shetlands archipelago.
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Australians try to tame the giant.
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Early in 2002, this website published an  excellent article  which documented the activity among the various ice shelves on the perimeter of the Antarctic.  At that time, there had recently been several significant calving events, rendering vast, floating islands of ice.  Also discussed was the complete collapse, in 1999, of an ice shelf known as   Larsen B,  which was formerly the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula - the northernmost and warmest part of the continent.  The disintegration of the Larsen B shelf was called a "profound event", because it was thought to be stable.  Fortunately, when massive icebergs are calved from ice-shelves, and even when they collapse and disintegrate completely, there is no resulting rise in sea level.   It turns out though, that these same ice shelves serve a surprisingly important role in "holding back" the glaciers and land-locked ice on Antarctica which, if released into the ocean, would raise the world's sea level an estimated 20 feet (7m).      Now it's    much clearer just how important that role is.
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Norway&#39;s biathlon queen lost more grip on her reign Thursday. The world&#39;s top biathlon athletes gathered in Oslo for World Cup competition due to last through the weekend.
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Tina Maze of Slovenia speeds down the course on her way to win the women&#39;s World Cup giant slalom in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004.
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This poll has been closed, view the result of this poll. KATHMANDU: He has scaled Mt Everest without bottled oxygen, crossed Antarctica and travelled solo across the Gobi desert.
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Lifestyle: 14 September 2004, Tuesday. The musicians from Gravity Co. would become the first Bulgarians to storm MTV-Europe's air.
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BANSKO, Bulgaria  - The citizens of Bansko, a ski resort in Bulgaria's Pirin mountains, are selling their land with gusto to buy fancy cars and replace communist-era furniture.
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Bulgarian striker Martin Petrov scored all four of VfL Wolfsburg&#39;s goals as the surprise Bundesliga leaders completed a thrilling 4-3 comeback win against FSV Mainz on Saturday.
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German veterans Sven Fischer and Uschi Disl won the men's and women's pursuit events at a biathlon World Cup event on Saturday.
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Foreign Corresp. European scientists have recovered ice which is 900,000-years-old, the oldest ever found, in the Antarctic during research into the continent's climate.
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Lance Mackey's team surged ahead of a tight pack of front-runners Monday during the final leg of the world's longest sled dog race.