Tankers filled with oil float moored, without destinations, in Libyan harbors.
Yet the causes, consequences and solutions to the current predicament cannot find their mooring without an accurate chronology of the Spanish business cycle.
The steppe is a symbolic presence, like Hardy's Egdon Heath or Emily Brontë's moors, but without their sense of physical place.
"It's just possible that Ian Brady was on the moor and checked the site without letting on, as it were," MacCulloch told the BBC in 2004.
Key scenes were reportedly filmed at Moor Close, a desolate farmhouse without electricity or running water in the North Yorkshire moors, while nearby Cotescue Park will double for Brontë's Thrushcross Grange, home of the wealthy Linton family.
She showed particular interest in photographs of the area around Hollin Brown Knoll and Shiny Brook, but said that it was impossible to be sure of the locations without visiting the moor.
As in Portugal, the coinage struck after the expulsion of the Moors was almost without exception regal.
The weather was cooperating, and curiosity about the old mooring (the one without a single satellite transmission in the last two weeks) would have to wait.
The design concept is based on a small size WEC capable of harvesting wave energy without mooring, which can reduce the installation cost.
