It's thought that hot pot originated in Mongolia (it's easy to imagine gathering around a coal fire in that cold and wind-swept region).

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And there is something about its ice-cold temperature that just makes salmorejo a good fit with the sun-scorched region.

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Two separate European wars in the last century, as well as the decades-long Cold War, shifted American strategic focus outward, away from the region that had once been foremost in the minds of American strategists.

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The Cold Spring Harbor district used its built-in snow days after Superstorm Sandy hit the region Oct. 29, she said.

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The habitable zone is the region of a planetary system which is neither too hot nor too cold - such that water on the surface of a planet will neither evaporate nor freeze, but instead can stay liquid.

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