The curtain rose.

The curtain fell.

The curtain has not yet risen.

The North Pole in Peril

The curtain was up and the performance had started.

The lights went down and the curtain went up.

To reach the North Pole is not easy.

The South Pole is a lot colder than the North Pole.

Ray Zahab treks to the South Pole

The South Pole is a lot colder than the North Pole.

To our amusement, the curtain began to rise ahead of time.

Repairman ... Not too far out. Front poles, preferably.

Ben Saunders skis to the North Pole

They went on an expedition to the North Pole.

Genetically identical bacteria represent an extreme case.

North Pole. I've done this picture last summer.

Its north pole lies below the orbital plane.

The North Pole turned into a lake for the first time in 2000.

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It should not be confused with the North Magnetic Pole.

If Anonymous International s leak is genuine, Russians are getting to peek behind the curtain today.

Trying to erect an Iron Curtain around Russian funds and businesses will prove counterproductive.

Disintegration Russian, all of you who can, flee this country, while the curtain is still up!

The territories claimed by Russia include the North Pole and a huge oil field.

Tom said that he wanted to go visit Santa Claus at the North Pole.

The world today is completely different from what it was when the Iron Curtain was hung.

I could see myself sticking the flag in a pole, you know ah, glorious moment the music kind of reaching a crescendo.

This all happened when the Iron Curtain divided Europe and the world into opposing camps.

The Arctic is only water, with the North Pole itself 4,200 meters under the surface.

The Arctic is only water, with the North Pole itself 4,200 meters under the surface.

Each pole gets around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of darkness.

That 20 years after this epochal event an iron curtain remains around Cuba makes this anniversary poignant.

And two weeks ago, Denmark, which has sovereignty over Greenland, staked its own territorial claim, also covering the North Pole.

A month ago today I stood there 90 degrees south, the top of the bottom of the world, the Geographic South Pole.

A white curtain of pouring rain was already descending over the distant wood and half the neighbouring field, and was advancing rapidly toward the Kolok.

We Czechs are 100 European, and were even when the Iron Curtain cut us off from democratic Europe.

At the peak of his career in 1985, Elton John sang about Nikita , a love interest confined behind the Iron Curtain.

It was as though the Iron Curtain and the tanks that crushed Nagy s government let alone Orbán s younger self had never existed.

This region seen here for the first time in the Cassini image taken in 2005. This is the south polar region, with the famous tiger stripe fractures crossing the south pole.

The industry front runner for Sukhoi Log is believed to be a consortium of the largest gold mining company in the Russian Federation, PJSC Polyus (which is controlled by Suleiman Kerimov's son, Said), and Rostec.

Naming China among a handful of countries that have stepped up Internet censorship, Clinton warned that a new information curtain is descending across much of the world.

The fact that oil wells are being drilled in La Macarena first came to the attention of Paloma Valencia, a senator from the Democratic Pole party, through a group chat.

Throughout most of human history, ice almost completely barred all navigation in the seas surrounding the North Pole, and the Arctic was asleep in a silent indifference.

US Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, with the assistance of his first pilot Bernt Balchen, became the first person to fly over the South Pole on November 29, 1928.

Arctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo ski trek to the North Pole, complete with engaging anecdotes, gorgeous photos and never before seen video.