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Mt. Ararat
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
Mt. Ararat According to Genesis 8:4, after...the tallest mountain in Turkey, Agri Dagi (Mt. Ararat), that some travel agencies include...rugged environment of the area that includes Mt. Ararat makes it difficult to sustain an expedition...
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Mt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mt symbol for the element meitnerium .
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Badon, Mt.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Badon, Mt., the scene of a battle connected with Arthur , first mentioned by Gildas without reference to Arthur. The Annales Cambriae gives the date of the battle as 518. Geoffrey of Monmouth identifies Badon as Bath; other authorities say it was Badbury near Wimborne.
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highest mountains
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...388 Africa Kilimanjaro Tanzania 5895 19,340 Mt Kenya Kenya 5200 17,058 Ruwenzori Uganda/Zaïre 5109 16,763 North America Mt McKinley (Denali) 3 USA (Alaska) 6194 20,321 Mt Logan Canada 6050 19,849 Citlalté...
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Staples
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...main commodities used as staple foods on a worldwide basis were as follows: maize, 604 metric tons (Mt); rice (paddy), 585 Mt; wheat, 578 Mt; potatoes, ( Solanum tuberosum L.), 304 Mt; cassava, 176 Mt; barley, ( Hordeum vulgare L...
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magnetotelluric prospecting
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...variations on the surface. The magnetotelluric (MT) method is an electromagnetic (EM) technique...investigations. The depth of investigation in MT is a function of subsurface resistivity...expressed in ohmmetre and frequency in hertz. MT can probe great depths (up to 600 km...
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mountain climbing
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Mummery. In Africa, Kilimanjaro (1889) and Mt. Kenya (1899) were climbed; the duke of...ranged through the Sierra Nevada. In Alaska, Mt. St. Elias was climbed by the duke of the Abruzzi in 1897; Mt. Blackburn and Mt. McKinley were ascended...
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Saicho
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...small temple, later called the Enryaku-ji, on Mt. Hiei. In 788 the area around Mt. Hiei was uncultivated marshland, but in 794 it...and in 797 the Emperor is said to have referred to Mt. Hiei as the true guardian of the empire. Travel...
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Rocky Mountains
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...from central N.Mex. to NW Alaska; Mt. Elbert (14,431 ft/4,399 m) in...complex, with remnants of an ancestral Rocky Mt. system and evidence that uplift, which...above 14,000 ft (4,267 m), among them Mt. Elbert and Mt. Massive (14,418 ft...
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Presidential Range
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...H., so called from the names of its peaks. Mt. Washington (6,288 ft/1,917 m) is the highest...tourists in the mid-1800s. Other peaks include Mt. Adams (5,798 ft/1,767 m), Mt. Jefferson (5,715 ft/1,742 m), Mt. Clay...
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