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study of nuclear waste disposal at Pacific Northwest National Labs.]] ... contamination. According to the Pacific Northwest National Labs, "Vitrification ...

The Kwakiutl, of the Canadian Pacific Northwest, are the main group ... was held by native tribes on the Pacific Northwest coast of the United ...

scuttled his hopes to search instead for a Northwest Passage. ... the Arctic Ocean north of Russia, into the Pacific, and then to the Far East ...

elk) that are native only to the Pacific Northwest coast. Because of this ... Most, if not all, Pacific Northwest indigenous cultures were more ...

province of British Columbia, comprise the Pacific Northwest. ... tributary, the Snake River, water the Pacific Northwest. The Platte runs through ...

area stretching from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean, and was given by ... lucrative trading territories of the Pacific Northwest. ...

Salmo (Atlantic trouts), and Oncorhynchus (Pacific trouts and Pacific salmon). ... genus Oncorhynchus are known as the "Pacific trouts and Pacific salmon ...

intermountain regions of the U.S. The Pacific Northwest states, on the other ... southern and eastern regions of the Pacific Northwest. Below-average precipitation ...

* Section Piceaster (southern Spain, northwest Africa) **Abies pinsapo ... * Section Amabilis (Pacific coast mountains, North America and Japan ...

Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Northwest coast between 1791 and 1794. ... Vancouver Island and throughout the Pacific Northwest. The trunks of the ...

thumb|350px|Over millions of years, the Pacific Plate has moved over the ... in the Columbia Plateau of the US Pacific Northwest. The Deccan Traps of ...

of Indigenous cultures along the Pacific northwest coast of North America ... In the early 1990s, the Haisla First Nation of the Pacific Northwest ...

The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. They are located at the meeting point of the ...

America linking the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. This navigable sea ... Panama Canal, which shortened the Atlantic Pacific passage by several thousand ...

The Snake River is the largest tributary of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. One of the most important ...

had made an amphibious landing in the northwest part of Singapore, near ... way in Southeast Asia until Japan became a Pacific Imperial power. Japan was ...

(40 to 240 km) in width, it separates the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California ... as the Sea of Cortez) on its west from the Pacific Ocean on its south and east ...

The Bering Sea is the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean that ... the interior Alaska Indians and the Pacific Northwest coast Indians. ...

Ocean, and other areas flow into the Pacific, Arctic, and so forth. ... 47 percent of all land in the world. The Pacific Ocean drains just over 13 ...

with the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. During the two-year ... heard numerous plans to explore the Pacific Northwest. In 1785, Jefferson ...

States after those of the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. ... Mackinac Straits, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. ...

Atlantic halibut (H. hippoglossus) and the Pacific halibut (H. stenolepis) ... and as far south as the Bay of Biscay. The Pacific halibut is found on the ...

River, its longest tributary, near the Pacific coast of Northern California ... significant links to the tribes of the Northwest Coast. However, they did ...

1994). They are found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans. ... *Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus *Greenland cod, Gadus ogac ...

also the first navigator to cross the vast Pacific Ocean, nearly four times ... Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513, and Juan ...

#039;s Central Valley and the Pacific Northwest. The California Gold ... * Orr, Elizabeth L., and William N. Orr. Geology of the Pacific Northwest ...

Panama and captured Spanish ships on the Pacific coast of that isthmus; the ... John Cook (or Cooke). Cook entered the Pacific via Cape Horn and spent ...

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It stretches from the Canadian province of British ...

was used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest of what is now the ... of his staff were former employees of the Northwest Company, known as Nor& ...

The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful ... Hawaii, and the North American Pacific Northwest). On his first voyage ...

Northwestern United States and the Pacific Northwest region of North America ... The course of political history in the Pacific Northwest saw the spine ...

Roman Catholic and was raised in the Pacific northwest. His parents were divorced ... with Brautigan on bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Another lyrical interpretation ...

perhaps as mild as the modern-day Pacific Northwest. Warm temperate forests ... rainforests grew as far north as the Pacific Northwest and Europe. ...

:* Picea neoveitchii Veitch's Spruce. Northwest China (rare, ... :* Picea chihuahuana Chihuahua Spruce. Northwest Mexico (rare). ...

of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The capital is Papeete ... A book of selected readings. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the ...

City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the Pacific Northwest). A number of American classical composers, in particular Henry Cowell and Aaron Copland ...

and sits in a strategic position in the Pacific Ocean roughly midway between ... islets, and undersea seamounts trending northwest by southeast in the North ...

Arc in northern Oregon state, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located about 50 miles (80 km) east-southeast of the ...

Mount Rainier were inhabited by many Pacific Northwest Native American tribes ... It is a natural setting of the Pacific Northwest region. Things to be ...

America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Construction of ... chiefly two facilities at the Atlantic and Pacific outlets), which was won ...

indigenous peoples located along the Pacific northwest coast of North America ... * Malin, Edward. Totem poles of the Pacific Northwest coast. Portland ...

skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa) of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States produces more than enough tetrodotoxin to kill an adult human foolish ...

is the seat of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, formed by Australia ... Located in Melanesia in the southwest Pacific Ocean, approximately ...

salmon are found in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as in the ... of documents describing salmon of the Pacific Northwest ...

They are a people of North America's northwest coast, inhabiting the southern ... |left|250px|Tsimshian people of the Pacific Northwest lived on salmon ...

*The Northwest Coast Indians' potlatch ritual, where leaders ... The Kwakiutl, of the Canadian Pacific Northwest, are the main group ...

Niue is a small island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. ... to the west coast, around the capital and in the northwest. ...

features: the Bering Strait on the Pacific side and the Greenland Scotland ... passage, the Northern Sea Route or the Northwest Passage, to "Cathay ...

blackberries. In addition to the Pacific Northwest of the United States ... such as in Chile, New Zealand and the Pacific Northwest region of North America ...

===Traversing "the Northwest Passage"=== expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic ...

east of the Pacific Ocean. The collapse of the 12000|ft|m ... area and deposited ash as far east as the northwest corner of what is now Yellowstone ...

who urged Stevenson to travel to the south Pacific, an idea which would return ... which went on a tour of the Pacific Northwest in that year. ...

in The Lone Prairie (1942), Riders of the Northwest Mounted (1943), Saddles ... continuing to tour the Southwest and Pacific Northwest from Texas to Washington ...

Canadian dollars). This land became the Northwest Territories. In 1870, Parliament ... to act as a police force for the vast Northwest Territories. ...

and the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, have significant ... used by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. The South American ...

United States and American Pacific Northwest. His first assignment for the Bureau of American Ethnology was the study of Haida Indians. The project ...

Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. Washington is located in the uppermost corner of the Pacific ...

Southwestern United States) or raven (Pacific Northwest, coastal British Columbia ... In the Pacific Northwest tradition, Coyote is mostly mentioned as ...

The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... Like the other Pacific island nations, a big concern is global warming ...

Ella E. Clark, Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest, illustrated by Robert ... * Clark, Ella E. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest. University ...

and the Alexander Archipelago off the northwest coast of North America ... that they carved into their famous Pacific Northwest canoes. Carved from ...

Museum, especially for school groups. The Northwest Coast portion exhibition ... patrons may "visit" several Pacific Islands. The Museum houses ...

located between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic ... ===East Siberia-Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline=== Russian oil pipelines ...

which consisted of what is now the Pacific Northwest of the United States ... easily accessible deep water port on the Pacific Ocean, and so no adjustment ...

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States located on the Pacific coast south of Washington and north of California ...

Ailen) is a small inhabited island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia ... meters) above sea level, located in the northwest quadrant of the island ...

is a northwestern arm of the Pacific Ocean, situated between ... The Sea of Okhotsk is a northwestern arm of the Pacific Ocean. With ...

The Nez Perce (autonym: Niimíipu) are Native American people who live in the Pacific Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United ...

are located along the coastline of the Northwest United States and Canada ... Native American fishing fleet in the Pacific Northwest, which boasts of the ...

accounts, the sasquatch of the Pacific Northwest United States is a ... searches of wilderness areas in the Pacific Northwest area of the U.S and ...

in the north from the main portion of the Pacific Ocean. These islands occupy ... are in the northern part of the Circum-Pacific chain of volcanoes, commonly ...

the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east ... In the 1870s, the government of Canada formed the Northwest Territories ...

Outside the Pacific Northwest, a number of artists and music scenes ... label. Other record labels in the Pacific Northwest that helped promote ...

which the Indo-Australian Plate meets the Pacific Plate. These volcanoes have ... To the northwest, and around Mount Ruapehu, between an altitude of ...

New England, New York City, and the Pacific Northwest. It is planted in many ... Arizona Sycamore || Arizona, New Mexico, northwest Mexico || 2-4 || Subgenus ...

Heyerdahls's voyages across the Atlantic and across the Pacific ... a 101-day, 4,300-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, it smashed into the ...

led to his writing, Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coming of ... *Deloria, Vine. Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coming ...

: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest In 1884, she traveled to the East Coast once again, in order to testify before Congress. She asked ...

Cape Horn from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean dropped greatly when ... The dividing line between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans runs along the meridian ...

* islands of the South Pacific, including Australia, New Zealand, ... Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). It is also ...

the Northern Atlantic and Northeastern Pacific. The Philippine Atmospheric ... season is September 10. The Northeast Pacific has a broader period of ...

and caused massive tsunami across the Pacific Northwest logged in Japan and ... Columbia, California, and coastal Pacific Northwest towns, killing 121 ...

Seattle is a coastal port city and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located in the state of Washington ...

flourished along the coast of the Pacific Ocean between 3000 and 1800 ... with strong leaders: Chinchasuyu in the northwest, Antisuyu (northeast), ...

Mongolia; northeastern China to the Pacific Ocean. In 1952, reindeer ... are found in Alaska, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories of Canada. ...

by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca ... were found floating in the waters off the northwest coast of Honduras. ...

039;Mine'? Physics Key to Detection.”] Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2000). Retrieved March 20, 2007. * It is contained in neutron ...

The Redwood National and State Parks stretch along the northern Pacific ... in the park and offshore under the Pacific Ocean have resulted in shifting ...

Mountains province, and the even larger Pacific Mountain System. It is bounded ... which in turn is part of the larger Pacific Mountain System physiographic ...

north, Panama to the south-southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south ... both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean with a total of 1 ...

Gordon R. Newell, H.W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest ... H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior ...

nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The country's ... Some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign of the Second ...

Esquimalt, the Canadian military’s main Pacific naval base. ... Township of Esquimalt is the home of the Pacific headquarters of the Canadian ...

The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of ... was able to seize the initiative in the Pacific and go on the offensive. ...

the Pima in southern Arizona and with the Pacific coast. ... Vizcaíno's expedition mapped the northwest coast of Baja California ...

as a north-south chain of islands in the northwest Pacific, which were also ... " leaving Spain most of the Pacific Ocean. Although the Philippines ...

the Bohai Bay to the north, Hebei to the northwest, Henan to the west, Jiangsu ... which would eventually become part of the Pacific theater of the Second World ...

of ruggedly beautiful seacoast along the Pacific Ocean in west-central California; ... pressure system that forms over the north Pacific Ocean. The high pressure ...

into three portions: the northeast arm, northwest arm, and southern. This ... Cub, and Strongs Knob are in the northwest arm, and the rest are in ...

and its height drops gently towards the northwest. The Changbai Mountains ... 2.96 million hectares of prairies in the northwest make it an ideal place ...

(also known as Christmas Island) in the Pacific Ocean see Kiribati. ... in the Indian Ocean, 1645 miles (2650 km) northwest of Perth in Western Australia ...

November to March is the wet season—the northwest monsoon—which is typically ... the most important battles fought in the Pacific theater. ...

were allowed to return to the Pacific Northwest, although many, including ... Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest. Boston: Mariner, 1997 ...

|Region = Asia-Pacific |Year = 2001 |Session = 25th ... and a relief of the Hindu trinity to the northwest. Kumar, Encyclopaedia ...

Business Machines (IBM)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ... position of Battelle Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. ...

| Region = Asia-Pacific | Year = 2004 | Session = ... Wu Nu Shan situates in the northeast of Huanren County and the northwest ...

south of the taiga, such as in the Pacific Northwest of North America, but ... temperate forest, or more locally (on the Pacific Ocean coasts of North America ...

Libraries Digital Collections – Pacific Northwest Sheet Music Collection] This collection contains historical sheet music from and about Washington ...

*Clark, Ella E. 2003. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0520239261 *Opler, Morris E ...

* Indo-Pacific gecko, Hemidactylus garnotii — Also known as a fox ... Native to southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. ...

sought to reclassify the Pacific Northwest seaboard as a different climate from California, and New England from the Gulf Coast. The Holdridge ...

are an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest. Their name for themselves ... in almost any other language. Like other Northwest Coast peoples, the Tlingit ...

expedition led by Donald McKenzie of the Northwest Company. However, other ... range, providing a shortcut to the Pacific Northwest region of the U.S. ...

millions of years. The slow drift of the Pacific Plate will eventually carry ... remains in a fixed position, while the Pacific Plate drifts over it at ...

result of its scenic location between the Pacific Ocean and B.C.'s coastal ... at UBC is a leading museum of Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations ...

Mount St. Helens is an active volcano in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located 128 ...

the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in ... (523,865 km²) and a width between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean ...

small. The largest is Chechen, in the northwest, followed by Tyuleny, Morskoy ... which connected to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans fifty to sixty million ...

by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 to the Pacific Coast. ... War for a decade, during which time the Northwest was growing wealthier and ...

The State of Idaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state's largest city, and capital, is ...

inhabited island group in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago is ... northwest is Yosemite Rock. Podesta Island reported further west is ...

California on the west, Oregon to the northwest, and Idaho to the northeast. ... Monsoon will cause summer thunderstorms; Pacific storms may blanket the area ...

Guinea drifted north, it collided with the Pacific Plate as well as a number ... systems that drain in roughly northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest ...

The Burke Musem in Seattle, Washington, displays many Pacific Northwest Indian artifacts. Some of the museum's research-related focus is ...

Valley of Flowers National Park to the northwest, UNESCO designated the ... A 13-person team climbed a difficult new route, the northwest buttress ...

The Canadian Pacific Railway was instrumental in Banff's early ... The Canadian Rockies consist of several northwest-southeast trending ...

west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north ... Columbia (west), Saskatchewan (east), Northwest Territories (north), and ...

*Columbia River Gorge in the Pacific Northwest of America. *Cotahuasi Canyon along the Cotahuasi River in Arequipa, Peru, the deepest canyon in ...

several front-line fighter units from Pacific war zones for homeland defense ... 1943 became commanding general of the Northwest African Strategic Air Forces ...

corner, at 3,125 feet (952 m). In the northwest are the Absaroka, Owl Creek ... The Teton Range in the northwest extends for 50 miles (80 km) and ...

southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles northwest of San Jose in Stanford ... Boulevard, and Sand Hill Road, in the northwest part of the Santa Clara ...

is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the ... and up the Rio Grande and then down the Pacific coast to Sinaloa, Mexico ...

| Region = Asia-Pacific | Year = 1999 | Session = 23rd ... against the inflow of cold air from the northwest and retain warm moist air ...

in the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, and after defending ... During this period, Boas made five more trips to the Pacific Northwest ...

American expansion and settlement into the Old Northwest. ... The Americans destroyed the power of the native people of the Northwest ...

(8,983 square kilometers), mostly in the northwest corner of Wyoming. The ... and northern Mexico and some areas of the Pacific Coast. The eruption left ...

The northwest corner of the state is part of the Chicago metropolitan ... Indiana, roughly demarcates suburban northwest Indiana from the rest of ...

scandal, this scandal involved the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit ... on April 5, 1879, known as the War of the Pacific. In January 1881, Chile ...

from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward ... the North-Western Territory to form the Northwest Territories, where Métis ...

Cards: What About Porcupines?"] Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Category:Life sciences Category:Animals Category:MammalsCategory:Rodents ...

River (now mostly built over), which runs northwest to southeast. The city ... During the War of the Pacific (1879–1883), Bolivia lost its seacoast ...

the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Panama ... both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Colombia ...

New Zealand is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific ... most of the remainder are of Asian and Pacific Island origin. British migrants ...

8-75 km (5-47 miles) in width along the Pacific coast of the United States ... of western and southern Europe, the Pacific Northwest of North America north ...

North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific (Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin ... After the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, a new fast tempo Northwest ...

Papua New Guinea is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in ... With a tropical climate and prevailing winds from the northwest, one ...

central boundary, Prospect Peak in the northwest corner, and Raker Peak ... and lake margins provide habitat for the Pacific tree frog, Western terrestrial ...

is located about 400 miles (640km) northwest of Darwin, Australia. ... who later colonized the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Lastly, proto-Malays ...

* Pacific Northwest * Southeast * Southern California * Texas ===Membership=== The MLA offers membership on a yearly basis. Costs vary depending ...

is in use in the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, in which the combine is retrofitted with a hydraulic sidehill leveling ...

Central Highlands area, 165 km (102 mi) northwest of the capital city, Hobart ... Walls Of Jerusalem National Park is located 144 km (90 mi) northwest ...

) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... events that opened the Gulf of Aden to its northwest. The archipelago ...

the South China Sea linking the Indian and Pacific oceans. ... the Philippines), and the islands off the northwest tip of Borneo. The sultanate ...

genus of astacid crayfish is found in the Pacific Northwest and the headwaters of some rivers east of the Continental Divide. Cambaroides is native ...

type include the Haida and Tlingit of the Pacific Northwest, whose societies are based on moiety lineages. Haida society is divided into two groupings ...

from Nanjing to the present location of northwest Beijing, selected the site ... Qīng dōnglíng), located 125 kilometers northwest of Beijing, stand as one ...

lush forests, lakes and rivers of the Pacific Northwest. Large game such as ... of Indigenous cultures along the Pacific Northwest coast of North America ...

from the main portion of the hotel along Pacific Avenue. ... 10.40 percent Asian, 0.06 percent Pacific Islander, 13.76 percent ...

de Balboa to all lands touching the Pacific Ocean, the Spanish rapidly ... the first European expedition to see the Pacific Ocean from the west coast ...

and Settlement on the North American Pacific Rim (University of Chicago ... "reserves" were located in the Northwest Territories: Saskathewan ...

Alaska, and the Alutiiq (Sug'piak or Pacific Eskimo) of southcentral ... and Alaska and Arctic coasts of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec ...

Lake Pleasant Regional Park is located in Northwest Phoenix. ... Winter storms moving inland from the Pacific Ocean occasionally produce ...

Caribbean Sea, bordered by Mexico to the northwest and Guatemala to the west ... Belize is the only country in Central America without a Pacific coastline ...

the House in language modeled after the Northwest Ordinance of 1787: ... #039; simply be extended west to the Pacific. This was voted down 89 ...

cfm?uid=019ADDOR0003269U00000000 Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections] ... * Ratnaghar Chaitya - Northwest of the Temple, this small prayer hall ...

* The Columbia River, the principal river of the Pacific Northwest United States * The Congo, the principal river of central Africa ...

dance were present throughout much of the Pacific Northwest including the Columbia plateau (a region including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts ...

marine sediments until rifting opened the Pacific Ocean. Additional sedimentation ... is five mountain ranges removed from the Pacific Ocean. Three of these are ...

|Region = Asia-Pacific |Year = 1982 |Session = 6th ... strategically situated with major ports northwest and northeast. The city ...

of Alexandria is shown in yellow, to the northwest (click to enlarge).]] ... His attitude toward the Jews was even less pacific, and the precedent he set ...

located approximately 16 miles (25 km) northwest of the city center. ... An Economy in Transition. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press at the Australian ...

Island Arc, which includes Sumatra to the northwest and Bali to the east. Located ... Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, is located on the northwest area ...

village, or thirty kilometers north-to-northwest of Kharkhorin. The Orkhon ... northwest of Duolun. The capital formed a square shape, with each ...

to locate Hudson and navigate the Northwest Passage. He is credited ... Fur trading forts were built by both the NorthWest Company and the Hudson ...

and by the early 1920s the Union Pacific Railroad became interested ... as a supply and repair ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet from September 15 ...

lies to its north and the Bohai Bay in the Pacific Ocean lies to the east. are located on the Bohai Gulf in the Pacific Ocean. It serves a vital ...

), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the northwest ... *the Pacific coast, south of the mountains; and *the Petén region ...

to the west and Valparaíso to the northwest, thus providing an outlet ... Antonio to the west and Valparaíso to the northwest. [[image:Santiago ...

]]/) is a state in the Pacific Northwest and Great Plains regions ... diagonal through the state from northwest to south-central, splitting ...

North America and may include Alaska in the northwest of the continent (both separated by Canada), while excluding Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific ...

In 1859, Scott traveled to the Pacific Northwest to settle a dispute with the British over San Juan Island, which had escalated to the so-called ...

of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean. leading the expedition through the Northwest to the Pacific Coast. ...

quot;—that is, plates pulling apart. The Pacific Ring of Fire has examples ... back more than 3,000 years but in the Pacific Northwest of the United States ...

, the Tunica, and the Koroa. Central and northwest Louisiana was home to a ... (along the Red River in present-day northwest Louisiana) was established ...

and ravens includes the eponymous Pacific Northwest Native figures Raven ... Pacific island species *Mariana Crow, C. kubaryi *Hawaiian Crow or ...

States of America located in the extreme northwest portion of the North American ... 236 acres (77, 090 sq km). Much of the northwest Arctic coastal area west ...

Isle of Mull, Scotland. When the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the area ... of Airdrie to the north, Cochrane to the northwest, Strathmore to the east ...

It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and ... the War of the Triple Alliance and the War of the Pacific. ...

Sydney is in a coastal basin bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the ... an important financial center in the Asia Pacific region. The Australian Stock ...

and the newspaper library at Colindale, northwest London. However, since ... Collections (OIOC), now called APAC (Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections ...

carved and painted war canoe from the Pacific Northwest, the massive Cape York ... collections: Asian Peoples, Pacific Peoples, Man in Africa, ...

By 1616, trade was restricted to Nagasaki and Hirado, an island northwest ... in 1843 and the Americans feared losing Pacific Ocean access. ...

html#Portland The Olmsteds in the Pacific Northwest.] Retrieved November 2, 2007. *Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City, finished 1868) ...

occur along plate boundaries, with the Pacific Plate's Ring of Fire ... below sea level (for example most of the Pacific Plate), while the continental ...

The Anangu have resided mostly in the northwest area of the state ... strikes of dry electrical storms from the northwest. When the storms arrive ...

time of the blueberry harvest, while in the Pacific Northwest the blackberries are often the festival fruit. == Notes== ==References== ...

launched from Tinian airbase in the West Pacific, approximately a six hour ... This was nearly 3 kilometers (2 miles) northwest of the planned hypocenter; ...

50,000 members, concentrated in the Northwest, among dock workers, agricultural ... both in the Deep South and the Pacific Northwest of the United States ...

#039;s Saint-Louis Region. Located in the northwest area of Senegal, near the ... Asia, and islands of the western Pacific Ocean propagated in West ...

and culture as their homelands in the Northwest fell progressively under ... who was not present for the great Pacific Scandal debate of 1873 that ...

from a wrecked sailboat. Set in Britain, the Pacific Islands and the U.S. northwest. * The Rainbow and the Rose (1958): One man's three love ...

appearance the best formed of the Northwest Indians, with the possible ... Great Plains until reaching the Pacific Northwest. Along their migration ...

West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is the most populous ... power from states in the Pacific Northwest and coal- and natural ...

there must have been black rats in northwest Europe at the time of the ... fleas against the United States in the Pacific theater in 1944, which apparently ...

when measured from its base on the mid-Pacific ocean floor, but only attains ... oxygen or support, on the more difficult Northwest route via the North Col ...

Destiny: Russia in Asia and the North Pacific. (Greenwood Publishing Group ... which took a different route through northwest China, was largely destroyed ...

cities. It is located equidistant from the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. ... of the south, to 35 inches (900 mm) in the far northwest. ...

Dakota border, approximately 300 miles northwest of Omaha. In 1991, Congress ... the World, Kiewit Corporation, and Union Pacific Railroad. UNIFI Companies ...

Navy Air Service, was a major force in the Pacific War. Though the Japanese ... to start massive forest fires in the Pacific Northwest outside the town of ...

granites on mainland Australia. In the northwest and west, mineral rich ... operations on the west coast and in the northwest. Services are operated ...

in the British Mediterranean and Pacific fleets. After the war, Philip ... , where he saw service with the British Pacific Fleet in the 27th ...

| Region = Asia-Pacific | Year = 1993 | Session = 17th ... reconstruction, slightly reoriented in a northwest position, is believed to ...

to the north, Anhui province to the northwest, Jiangxi province to the ... by the many typhoons that form in the Pacific Ocean. Major cities: ...

quot; (八山一水一分田). The northwest is higher in altitude, ... threatened by typhoons coming in from the Pacific. Average annual precipitation ...

air from the north can often combine with Pacific storm fronts bringing snow ... it can combine with moisture from the Pacific Northwest to bring significant ...

was to be created, Guthrie moved to the Pacific northwest. The film was never made, but some good did come of the move. In May 1941, Guthrie was ...

to be used by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, the Northern Athapascan people of Alaska, and various cultural groups throughout Canada ...

the state line with Nebraska and flows northwest, past the site of the 1890 ... Respond to Native American Protest" Pacific Historical Review 72 (2 ...

US 52 runs northwest-southeast from Portal to Jamestown, then to Fargo ... The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad BNSF and the Canadian Pacific ...

| Region = Asia-Pacific | Year = 2003 | Session = Twenty seventh ... situated 230 km (143 miles) northwest of Kabul at an altitude ...

a border with Thailand to its west and northwest, with Laos to its northeast ... of cave dwellers has been found in the northwest. Carbon dating indicated ...

City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the Pacific Northwest). A number of American classical composers, in particular Henry Cowell and Aaron Copland ...

and small towns in the northeast and northwest corners of the state contrast ... the state, with higher totals in the northwest. Spring has variable temperatures ...

Wisconsin was part of the Northwest Territory from 1788 to 1800. It ... Wisconsin are Kimberly-Clark and Georgia-Pacific, both of which rank among ...

of the 75 Districts in Nepal] Asia-Pacific Population Journal 10(2 ... living in parts of the temple in the northwest. The Swayambhunath complex ...

and temperate rain forests in the Pacific Northwest. Alaska's tundra ... line the windward mountains of the Pacific Northwest from Oregon to Alaska. ...

lammasu, or guardian figures, from the Northwest Palace of the Assyrian ... 11,000 pieces from sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific Islands and the Americas ...

sea level, and the highest point in far northwest Houston is about 125 feet ... 44 percent Native American, 0.06 percent Pacific Islander, 16.46 percent ...

of the Miss Macao, a seaplane of a Cathay Pacific subsidiary company, caused ... * United States 1971: D. B. Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines ...

their efforts against the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean Areas and South West ... and the United Kingdom also emerged in the Pacific war. Winston Churchill was ...

The mainland portion of Tokyo lies northwest of Tokyo Bay and measures ... island chains directly to the south in the Pacific Ocean: the Izu Islands, ...

in the north and the Thar Desert in the northwest. The Himalayas act as a ... around 10–15 °C (50–59 °F) in the northwest; temperatures rise as one ...

in the McLean, Virginia, a few miles northwest from downtown Washington ... In 1950, the CIA organized the Pacific Corporation, the first of many ...

Hernando de Soto crossed in a west-northwest direction in what is now ... 48.0 percent for Asians, 50.0 percent for Pacific Islanders, and 107.8 percent ...

Divide Peak sends waters towards the Pacific Ocean, Hudson Bay, and Gulf ... three major climatic zones. The west and northwest are dominated by spruce ...

War on Terrorism (University Press of the Pacific, 2004, ISBN 1410217337) ... , Pennsylvania, about 150 miles (240 km) northwest of Washington, D.C., at ...

west. Its southeast corner touches the northwest corner of New Mexico, though ... is affected by air masses from the North Pacific, much of its precipitation ...

of Kyushu) in the southwest, along the Pacific coast of the Asian continent ... of Japan and the East China Sea and the Pacific proper. Together they are ...

Great Britain to the west and southwest, northwest by the Orkney Islands and ... Sea area is dominated by grabens: the northwest-southeast oriented Lower ...

anywhere in the United States outside the Pacific Northwest and parts of Alaska. === Flora and fauna === [[Image:Mountain laurel.jpg|280px|thumb ...

organizations such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and ... of corporate headquarters in the Asia-Pacific region. In terms of gross ...

the Kuna Crest. The Sierra crest and the Pacific Crest Trail run through ... is only about 100 miles (160 km) from the Pacific Ocean. An anticyclone sits ...

Arabs established trading posts along the northwest coast. European contact ... Subsequent migrations from both the Pacific and Africa further consolidated ...

The Case of Koguryo State,” in Pacific Northeast Asia in Prehistory: ... resources to continue expanding to the northwest. New laws regulated peasants ...

unchecked until pioneers reached the Pacific, and newly settled lands ... truce and prisoner exchange. Although the Northwest Indian War escalated and ...

to the northeast, Kazakhstan to the northwest, and the Caspian Sea to ... miles (1500 square kilometers) in the northwest. The Sundukly Desert west ...

Trade flourished across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Toppling the Aztec ... century, and maintained its Asia-Pacific territories until 1898. ...

listen to a street preaching team from the Pacific Garden Mission. Sunday was ... had first been used by loggers in the Pacific Northwest to describe following ...

), Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone (AltaMira ... ). Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone. AltaMira ...

highest point, in the Huron Mountains northwest of Marquette, is Mount ... the requirement of 60,000 set by the Northwest Ordinance as a criterion ...

who was seeking a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean. Frobisher's Thanksgiving was not for harvest but homecoming; having safely returned ...

service with the 4th U.S. was in the Pacific Northwest, starting with a topographical ... Sheridan then proceeded on a raid to the northwest to break the Virginia Central ...

! rowspan="5" | Northwest Division | Denver Nuggets ... ! rowspan="5" | Pacific Division | Golden State Warriors ...

Countries (University Press of the Pacific, 2001, ISBN 978-0898753714 ... the Vietnam War. Located about 60km northwest of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh ...

in the northwest corner near Pimlico. The city has a total area of ... American, 1.53 percent Asian, 0.03 percent Pacific Islander, 0.67 percent from ...

1 percent Native American, 0.50 percent Pacific Islander, 14.92 percent ... and other suburban areas to the west and northwest of Dallas. It also publishes ...

St. Louis area in May 1804, reached the Pacific Ocean in the summer of 1805 ... Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is located in suburban northwest ...

Canada, and some groups can be found along the Northwest Pacific Coast. === Entry into the Southwest === Archaeological and historical evidence ...

in Geneva, New York, 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the main campus. The ... and the newly launched China and Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS) major provide ...

People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia ... North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin ...

in 1971, followed by the UWC of the Pacific in Canada in 1974. In 1978 ... Donegal and Sligo, County Sligo on the northwest coast of Ireland. Bundoran ...

Gulf in the east, to Hungary in the northwest, and from Egypt in the ... Tanganyika, German New Guinea and a few Pacific islands) and some thought ...

| Region = Asia-Pacific | Year = 1987 | Session = 11th ... [[Image:Sunset of the Forbidden City 2006.JPG|thumb|400px|The northwest ...

is not always so clear. In the Pacific Northwest of the United States, for example, an abundant supply of fish guaranteed that the people had ...

forts around the Great Lakes known as the Northwest Territory. The treaty remained ... the prohibition of slavery in the Northwest Territory, writing to his ...

trade to Nagasaki and Hirado, an island northwest of Kyūshū), 1622 (the ... was expanding its own presence in the Asia-Pacific region, to establish diplomatic ...

along the frontier, the largest being the Northwest Indian War. ... American Revolution from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean] ...

the world. It occupied territories in the Pacific, such as Hawaii and the ... Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, Northwest Passage, and areas around ...

for the West Country, Midlands and northwest England. Luftflotte 5, ... For Defeat. University Press of the Pacific, 2002. ISBN 0898757975 ...

(Кувшиново), in Tver guberniya, northwest of Moscow, Russia. At the ... Bakunin, Yokohama and the Dawning of the Pacific]. Retrieved March 29, 2007. ...

surplus for competitive gift-giving as in the Pacific Northwest potlatch culture). Most certainly, there was a gradual transition from hunter-gatherer ...

seaboard. China's coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 kilometers ... South Central China, Southwest China, and Northwest China. ...

The eight prototypes were installed temporarily on the northwest corner ... Warner Brothers Theatre (now the Hollywood Pacific Theatre) during the 1951 ...

world's busiest airports, on the far northwest side. In 2005, O'Hare ... (of any race), 4.33 percent Asian and Pacific Islander, 1.64 percent from ...

America, the southern Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and Antarctica. These ... northern temperate zone. The north and northwest have a temperate climate ...

and Spanish Galicia are located to the northwest. In the southeast, the ... Spain," from the Pyrenees to the northwest region, characterized by ...

of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 69(406) (1957):54. Retrieved ... html The Convection Zone]. NorthWest Research Associates. Retrieved ...

in an unnamed town in what seems to be the Pacific Northwest. McCabe (Beatty) comes to this town that is in the process of being built with the aim ...

in 1895 and saw action on the Indian northwest frontier and in the Sudan ... is true to some extent of the war in the Pacific except for episodes such ...

at Orycon for works from the Pacific Northwest, special interest or subgenre awards like the Chesley Award for art or the World Fantasy Award ...

with most Chinese rivers emptying into the Pacific Ocean. ... #039;s highest point, Mount Everest. The northwest also has high plateaus ...

At 9:06a.m. Pacific Standard Time on January 26, 2020, a Sikorsky ... of a mountain in Calabasas, about 30|mi northwest of downtown Los Angeles ...

cremated, and his ashes were spread in the Pacific Ocean. ... hangared at Santa Paula Airport an hour northwest of Hollywood, where he ...

necessary to join the war effort in the Pacific in order to bring about ... feature films. In the 1958 movie North by Northwest, director Alfred Hitchcock ...

countries (counter-clockwise from northwest to southeast): Norway, ... (37,000 kilometers) along the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Baltic ...

committed in the Mediterranean and in the Pacific.Wilmot, 177–178, chart ... 039;s Scientists: Operational Research in Northwest Europe: The Work of No ...

northern New Ireland, Haida carvings from the Pacific Northwest region of North America, and woodcuts by Max Pechstein (Dyson 2001). Tagore also had an ...

in the Coast Salish Region of the Pacific Northwest Coast,"] Current Anthropology 53(5) (2012): 547–587. Retrieved March 28, 2023. ...

Kaesong in the south, Sinuiju in the northwest, Wonsan and Hamhung in ... winds that bring moist air from the Pacific Ocean. Typhoons affect the ...

relative sea levels fell (such as Alaska and Pacific Northwest), where the elevation of land exceeded the rise in absolute sea level. ...

touching both the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. ... easy contact with both the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. Although the Spanish ...

with some mountainous terrain in the northwest (Cambrian Mountains of ... away from the Americas to Asia, the Pacific and later Africa. Canada ...