Once an untouched landscape of white oak and shagbark hickory, it now belonged to Consol Energy and served as the refuse area for the Bailey Mine Complex, the largest underground coal mine in the United States.
The riverbank was still semi-rural and largely untouched – once you got past the ever-so-slightly commercialised strip near the bridge, where the annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race began.
on Wednesday, averting a potential debt default and reopening the government while leaving Obamacare virtually untouched, once passed by Congress and signed by the president.
"I felt impelled by a desire to see once again the whole untouched panorama of New York," Mr. Evans says.
The complex starship, once built, must sit untouched, because the pieces never come apart in an order that allows for their replacement according to the directions.
For seven weeks, while the wheat grew in scorching heat under impossibly blue skies, two men clothed in the traditional black and white garments of the Hasidim stayed in a trailer overlooking the crop, to be able to attest that the wheat, once matured, had been untouched by rain or other moisture.
All three men say they can't imagine staying if the place turns into Morro de São Paulo, the resort town on an adjacent island that was once as idyllic and untouched as Boipeba but is now overrun with sunburnt carousing holidaymakers.
The field Iðavöllr exists where Asgard once was, and, there, untouched by Surtr's flames, Víðarr and Váli reside.
Since the end of the Korean War the DMZ, which was once farmland, has lain almost untouched and, to a large extent, has reverted to nature.
