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One of the biggest setbacks came in 2022, when the Contras wildfire disrupted power and internet service at the observatory for months.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026

Nicholas Contras, a retired lawyer from Cincinnati who attended Mr Vance's celebration, said it was the candidate's anti-establishment status that won him over.

From BBC • May 3, 2022

They don’t even have necessarily a bare-bones understanding of what happened, or what was going on with Iran, or even who the Contras were, and, most of all, how those two things were related.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2020

Obando served as a mediator and “witness” at several rounds of peace talks between the Sandinistas and the Contras.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2018

Except for the grimly expectant troop around her, and the clanking of metal as the Contras rode, she had no 299token of a fellow creature.

From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)