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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A US base for explorations in Antarctica on the Ross Ice Shelf. First established by Richard E. Byrd in 1928, Little America was used for several decades but has since been lost in the breakup of the ice shelf.
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A week afterWilkins and Eielson historic flight, American Richard Byrd arrivedat the Bay of Whaleson the Ross Ice Shelf toestablish a base, known as Little America just four miles from the site used by Roald Amundsen for his sucessful 1911 South Pole expedition.
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The expedition also had a dramatic incident when Richard Byrd decided to spend the Antarctic winter of 1934 alone at a meteorological station, 125 miles south of "Little America" base on the Ross Ice Shelf.
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RAZ: Well, in the song, "Little America," you say, I can see myself at 30.
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According to a report in tomorrow's New York Times (reg. req.), a part of Afghanistan into which the United Starts poured so much building effort that it was called 'Little America' has now become the center of a Taliban resurgence that is making Afghanistan almost as dangerous for American soldiers as Iraq.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Afghanistan's 'Little America' now a Taliban center 2006
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The 62-year-old author revisited some of that psychic terrain in 2001 in "Little America," a widely acclaimed novel published by Knopf told from the point of view of an adult son of CIA officer who had been heavily involved in operations in the Middle East in the 1950s - as
Candidateblogs.baltimoresun.com Blogs - Baltimore Sun Candidate Blog 2010
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Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri this week were all down, Iowa and New Hampshire were flat, Florida, that Little America, was down almost 15%.
Low Turnout and the Big Tune-Out Peggy Noonan 2012
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It's only recently that NATO troops have been returning Helmand to government control and civilian provincial reconstruction teams have started to rebuild and upgrade the infrastructure from the Little America years.
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Back then, parts of the province were known as Little America.
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FLINTOFF: The question is whether the U.S. and allied governments, facing the costs of a long war and drained by a sharp recession, will be willing to continue the process that once made this place a Little America.
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Instead of watering wheat, the canals of Little America served to irrigate poppy fields that supplied much of the world's opium and heroin.
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