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Greenland’s Most Remote Arctic Areas Have Never Been More Accessible

New York Observer 17 Dec 2024
... Farthest North to Thule and Kane Basin, starting in June and July ... “It’s an extraordinary journey to the fabled ‘Ultima Thule,’ an area so far north that it has captivated explorers for centuries.”.
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Culture 6: Aideen Barry's must-see exhibitions nationwide

RTE 18 Sep 2024
Liane Lang. Deep Time Dip ... Richard Malone ... (Pic ... The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls is an exhibition drawing inspiration from a poem from Ultima Thule (1880), one of the last collections published by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).
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The marking of Michigan: Earliest surveyors laid it all on the line in untamed wilderness

Sturgis Journal 21 Aug 2024
A rare summer waterfall at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan ... Marie ... Cost ... "a region of perpetual snows — the Ultima Thule of our national domain in the north," meaning a distant unknown region; the extreme limit of travel and discovery ... Gov.
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Claudia Myers column: Treasure-hunting quest? More like a guessing game

Duluth News Tribune 11 Jun 2024
I have been collecting vintage and antique stuff for many years ... More than you’ll ever want." ... Huh! ... I was moseying around a thrift store once with some things in my cart, including a Tapio Wirkkala's Ultima Thule “Finnish ice crystal vase."
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Is there life...on Arrokoth? Red world shaped like a

The Daily Mail 07 Jun 2024
Ultima Thule, now known as Arrakoth, was originally thought to be two separate objects ... Officially known as 2014 MU69, it got the nickname Ultima Thule in an online vote.
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IndiGo’s wide-body aircraft order: What makes long-haul, low-cost air travel a tough nut to crack?

Financial Express 05 May 2024
There is one issue, though ... Numerous failures and few, if at all, relatively stable and profitable long-haul budget airlines underscore the reputation of this segment as the Ultima Thule of commercial aviation ... .
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Easter Quiz: Why Are White Things So White?

The Daily Sceptic 28 Mar 2024
... of those tend to look more like contemporary snapshots of the Diocese of Birmingham, c.2024, as opposed to that of the fictional Aryan ice-continent of Ultima Thule, c.5,000 BC, but never mind.
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Jean Malaurie, explorer who chronicled the disastrous effects of a US ‘invasion’ of Greenland – obituary

AOL 20 Mar 2024
... north of Baffin Bay, and called it Thule, tapping into the classical concept of a shining region at the top of the world referred to by Seneca as “Thule” (furthest north became “Ultima Thule”).
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Emerald City Musical Excellence

The Stranger 29 Dec 2023
... Xenakis opus; the 13-minute "Disintegration Rites" vividly conjures dystopian scenarios and biological catastrophes; "Ultima Thule" glowers in the same interstellar inferno as early Tangerine Dream.
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It’s Time The Magellanic Clouds Are Renamed, Astronomers Say

IFL Science 12 Oct 2023
Advertisement ... Famously the first provisional name of Arrokoth, the most distant world visited by a human spacecraft, was at first called Ultima Thule – the nickname of the far distant fictional land in old maps ... Advertisement ...   ... Advertisement ... .
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Astronomers believe second Earth-like planet is hiding in deep space

Metro UK 04 Sep 2023
Getty/Science Photo Libra) ... An artist’s impression of MU69, also known as Ultima Thule, a Kuiper Belt object and the most distant object visited by human spacecraft after the flyby of Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft on January 1, 2019 (Picture ... More.
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Astronomers believe second Earth-like planet is hiding in our solar system

Metro UK 04 Sep 2023
Getty/Science Photo Libra) ... An artist’s impression of MU69, also known as Ultima Thule, a Kuiper Belt object and the most distant object visited by human spacecraft after the flyby of Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft on January 1, 2019 (Picture ... More.
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5,000 Years of History Still Standing In Scotland’s Shetland Isles

Ancient Origins 15 Apr 2023
Ultima Thule meaning "farthest Thule", was the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman cartographic literature, while modern interpretations of this place include the islands of ...
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The northernmost US military base now has a Greenlandic name

Stars and Stripes 11 Apr 2023
The previous name of the base was derived from a trading post that explorers in the early 1900s established in the area, which they called Thule, after the classical literature term ultima Thule, ...
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From the archives, 2015: At Thule Air Base in Greenland, vigilance and community 

Stars and Stripes 09 Jan 2023
THULE AIR BASE, GreenlandIt’s 8.36 on this early October morning, and the sun is starting to peek out from beyond South Mountain ... The term “ultima Thule” in medieval maps denotes any distant place beyond the “borders of the known world.”.

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