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  • Greylock at 3,491 feet near the state's northwest corner. ... better land in western New York and the Northwest Territories soon put the ...
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  • Born in Harpurhey, Manchester in northwest England, he lived and worked ... (Burmese Days), Forster's of India (A Passage to India) and Greene's ...
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  • The Sierran Arc started to form to the northwest from heat and pressure ... km²) and redesignated a national park by passage of the Desert Protection ...
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  • Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, Northwest Passage, and areas around Machias Seal Island and North Rock with Canada. CIA World Factbook ...
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  • which took a different route through northwest China, was largely destroyed ... boats blockaded the islands to prevent the passage of ROC supply ships. Though ...
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  • (Кувшиново), in Tver guberniya, northwest of Moscow, Russia. At the ... issued him with a letter giving him passage on all ships on the river ...
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  • an increasing density of population; the Northwest, now known as the Midwest ... return fugitive slaves, and assured easy passage of many bills and amendments ...
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  • the O'Shaughnessy Dam in 1913 through passage of the Raker Act. ... and very deep cracks trend northeast or northwest and form parallel, often ...
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  • Spain was also responsible for the safe passage of 45,000-60,000+ Jews. ... the Nazis, invaded the Val d'Aran in northwest Catalonia, but they were ...
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  • The cities were fortified to allow safe passage for Japanese reinforcements ... city Busan, Konishi's troops moved northwest to where the Dongnae fortress ...
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  • across five geographical regions. In the northwest is the Baltic seacoast ... temperatures around 37.4°F (3°C) in the northwest and 17.6°F (–8°C) in ...
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  • truce and prisoner exchange. Although the Northwest Indian War escalated and ... of the woods," comparing Boone's passage through the Cumberland Gap ...
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  • and on 17 March 2011 led to the passage of United Nations Security ... at the Northwood Headquarters in the northwest suburbs of London. JFC ...
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  • This was nearly 3 kilometers (2 miles) northwest of the planned hypocenter; ... and the Christian Faith, includes the following passage: ...
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  • and also the Arcadian Achaeans to the northwest. The evidence suggests ... #039;s hair was perhaps part of a rite of passage that signalled her entrance ...
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  • Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum, by passage of the Lex Vatinia. When ... from the Veneti, a group of tribes in northwest Gaul, but the Veneti resisted ...
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  • first been used by loggers in the Pacific Northwest to describe following home ... public interest in Prohibition and in the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment ...
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  • *1903: Ship Gjoa transits the ice-filled Northwest Passage, aided with a Dan kerosene engine. *1904: French build the first diesel submarine, the Z. ...
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  • Ireland, Haida carvings from the Pacific Northwest region of North America ... spirit—sacrifice her life. In the last passage, Tagore directly attacks ...
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  • hour ultimatum, in which he demanded free passage for troops to occupy unspecified ... Wilson, who established his headquarters northwest of Larissa. The New Zealand ...
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