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For centuries, fishing has been the Algarve’s lifeblood.
Since L.A. is a savage desert hellscape not fit for human life, it has to suck its lifeblood, Scream, Blacula, Scream -style, from the whole western half of the continent.
Santarém, 78 km (48 miles) northeast of Lisbon, is the ancient capital of the agricultural region of the Ribatejo, whose lifeblood is the mighty River Tagus.
They remain some of the most evocative images of the 1970s, those film clips of sheiks clad in flowing robes and luxuriant headdresses, striding confidently from hotel lobbies into waiting limousines, secure in the knowledge that in controlling two-thirds of the world's oil reserves, they controlled the lifeblood of the industrialized world.
Daunting to early-20th-century explorers—trapping (and ultimately crushing) Ernest Shackleton's Endurance and derailing Robert Scott's 1901 Discovery expedition—the seasonal pack ice is the lifeblood of Antarctica's marine ecosystem.