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High on St. Gallen.(Swiss Cities)
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October 1, 2003
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City Profile
Location: Canton St. Gallen
Altitude: 670 m
Inhabitants: 70.000
In 612, Irish monk Gallus came to a wild, narrow high-lying valley in search of a suitable place for his hermit's cell. He stumbled and fell into a bush of thorns. Later, he had a close encounter with a bear. The two incidents, he took as signs sent to him by God and decided to stay.
One hundred years later, the very place became the site of an abbey, which was to become the "writing room of Europe" in the Middle Ages and one of the most important ...
 "Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)")
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AURORA FOUNDATION AWARDS 81 SCHOLARSHIPS2 EARN HISPANIC AWARDS | VICTORY AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP | 2 GET HEAD START SCHOLARSHIPS | ECKBURG WINS CEDARVILLE AWARD | AU HONORS RECIPIENTS | WIU REPORTER WINS AWARD | CALIENDO NAMED DEAN'S SCHOLAR | MOSS GETS LITTLE 500 SCHOLARSHIP | 2 GET BRADLEY AWARDS | LYNCH AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP | SENIORS WIN SCHOLARSHIPS | ASH WINS EIU AWARD | SCHOOLFIELD GETS HISTORY AWARD | FARM BUREAU SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)
; The Aurora Foundation has announced the awarding of...Hinckley, Christina Palazzolo of Elburn. Aurora Central Catholic High School Scholarship...Father Jerome Leake: Timothy Schultz of Aurora. Aurora Firefighters Scholarship in memory...
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Aurora Foundation awards scholarships
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)
; The Aurora Foundation awarded scholarships to area students for the 2002-03 academic...Rebecca Kasper, Elburn; Andrea Myers, Hinckley and Nancy Rios, Aurora. * Aurora Central Catholic High School Scholarship in Honor of Father Jerome Leake...
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Aurora Foundation announces scholarship winners
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)
; The Aurora Foundation has awarded 120 scholarships...bequests. Each student applying for an Aurora Foundation Scholarship submitted a written...Stephanie Nelson (Elburn), Alison Perle (Aurora) [] Aurora Central Catholic High School...
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Aurora to honor volunteers for service to their community
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)
; AURORA -- The city will honor more than 90 area...the community at 7 p.m. June 10 at the Aurora Transportation Center, 233 N. Broadway...Award recipients are: [] Rick Mervine of Aurora, nominated by Alderman Chris Beykirch...
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Auroras on other words: the auroras of other planets reveal information about their magnetic fields, atmospheres, and even interactions with their moons.
Magazine article from: Odyssey
; ...system do possess auroras. "Every planet...atmosphere also has an aurora," notes John T...type of light in the aurora depends on the composition...the visible light auroras that we're familiar...independent of the main auroras. "This is not repeated in the Earth's aurora because our ...
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AURORA PUSHES AHEAD WITH ORCHARD LAND PLAN | NO BORDER AGREEMENT: CITY, N. AURORA COVET AREA NEAR I-88 FOR ANNEXATION
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)
; NORTH AURORA -- After a year of contentious, closed...boundary agreement between the village and Aurora is no closer to reality -- leaving officials...options. Even with negotiations ongoing, Aurora is aggressively pursuing the annexation...
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Auroras and Verimatrix Partner to Deploy Encryption, Service Protection and Forensic Watermarking Technology Throughout the Auroras IPTV Network.
Business Wire
; KALISPELL, MT & SAN DIEGO -- Auroras Entertainment, LLC and Verimatrix, Inc. announced...Demand (VOD) television programming throughout the Auroras IPTV nationwide network. Auroras, a leader in IPTV content, infrastructure and services...
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Auroras.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Boy's Quest
; ...continues to burn. The aurora appears most often at...the earth. Records of auroras date back as far as 503...the northern lights the aurora borealis. The southern lights got their name, aurora australis, by Captain James Cook in 1773. Auroras occur when two particles...
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AURORAS DANCING IN THE NIGHT
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data
; ...unique perspective on auroras. If Iris, the goddess...would be the goddess of Aurora. Glowing green ripples...photograph above. When red aurora is present, it usually extends above the green aurora. Because auroras follow Earth's magnetic...
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Aurora Property Violations
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)
; The city of Aurora has filed the following property maintenance...Simms St., owned by Sandra Reyes of Aurora. Resolution: Fined $50, partial noncompliance...Liberty St., owned by Ernesto Pacheco of Aurora. Resolution: Fined $500, partial noncompliance...
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