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Himalayas
Himalayas (Skt., hima-ālaya, abode of snow). The Himalayan region is known in Buddhist sources by various names such as Himavā, Himācakam, and Himavanta. As one of the seven mountain ranges known to classical Indian sources it is described in largely mythological terms. It is said to be 300,000 leagues (yojana) in extent, with 84,000 peaks, the highest one being 500 yojanas in altitude. The region is said to encompass seven great lakes from which flow 500 rivers. The area also serves as a kind of retirement zone for sages who withdraw there to end their days in solitude and
meditation.
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Do we have an advantage in the Himalayas?
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 6/13/2008; 700+ words
; ...Bangladeshis have over us Italians in the Himalayas!': Teo baffled me once with this invective...do reasonably well in the glaciers of Himalayas. Like any Bangladeshi I believed that...crowd of baby-mountains compared to the Himalayas. For real high-altitude mountaineering...
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The Himalayas are single subject to new English language magazine edition of Gruner and Jahr's "Geo Special" travel magazine.
PR Newswire; 5/5/1989; 700+ words
; THE HIMALAYAS ARE SINGLE SUBJECT TO NEW ENGLISH LANGUAGE...NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Himalayas are the single subject of a new English...Magazine and YM. "GEO Special -- The Himalayas" ($4.95) contains 176 pages and...
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Characteristics of Monsoon Rainfall around the Himalayas Revealed by TRMM Precipitation Radar
Magazine article from: Monthly Weather Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...variability are investigated around the Himalayas using hourly, 0.05 0.05 grid, near...inherent to TRMM PR measurements around the Himalayas could influence results, PR-observed...over the south-facing slopes of the Himalayas. The moderate to heavy conditional rain...
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HIMALAYAS FIGHTING AGAINST TOM.COM
News Wire article from: AsiaInfo Services; 5/10/2002; 361 words
; 00-00-0000 Himalayas Fighting Against Tom.com BEIJING...in Chinese market, another player Himalayas attracts people's notice. The company...companies in Guangzhou at one stroke. Himalayas declares that it will purchase more...
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Joint scientific expedition heads for Himalayas
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 10/16/2006; 431 words
; ...Joint scientific expedition heads for Himalayas LHASA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- A research...for a month- long expedition in the Himalayas. There are 12 Chinese and seven foreign...Nepal and Bhutan in the team. The Himalayas extend through all four countries. The...
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New species discovered in fragile Eastern Himalayas.
M2 Presswire; 8/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...species discovered in fragile Eastern Himalayas(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE...have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, a WWF report has revealed. But this...it warns. The report, The Eastern Himalayas - Where Worlds Collide, describes a...
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OVER THE HILL; After 28 hours lost on the Ochils, Carole is off to crack the Himalayas.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 2/3/2001; 700+ words
; ...A NOVICE walker is set to tackle the Himalayas - despite almost dying on one of Scotland...me even more determined to go to the Himalayas. I'm absolutely committed." Carol...She said: "The man I'm going to the Himalayas with is a lot more experienced than Robert...
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Monitoring the monsoon in the Himalayas: Observations in Central Nepal, June 2001
Magazine article from: Monthly Weather Review; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...June 2001 along the south slopes of the Himalayas in central Nepal. Radiosondes were launched...monsoon flow with the south slopes of the Himalayas, modulated by the diurnal variability...processes along the south slopes of the Himalayas are not well known or well documented...
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WWF Nepal launches Global Awareness Campaign on Climate Change in Himalayas
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 4/11/2009; 404 words
; ...Awareness Campaign on Climate Change in Himalayas WWF Nepal launches Global Awareness Campaign on Climate Change in Himalayas KATHMANDU, April 11 (Xinhua...Campaign on Climate Change in the Himalayas. At the launch of the campaign here...
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Expedition through Himalayas planned
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 9/16/2006; ; 574 words
; ...joint scientific expedition through the Himalayas in the middle of next month, announced...Nepal and Bhutan, all of which the Himalayas extend through, to make a month-long...research into the southern bend of the Himalayas, said Zhang Wenjing, chief scientist...
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Himalayas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Himalayas [Sanskrit,=abode of snow], great...Tibet. For most of its length, the Himalayas comprise two nearly parallel ranges separated...northern range is called the Trans-Himalayas. The southern range has three parallel...
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Himalayan–Tibetan uplift and global climate change
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...potential role of late Cenozoic uplift of the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau in driving global...Quaternary times. The formation of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau is thought to...thrusting of the Indian crust in the Himalayas and southern Tibet. The homogeneous...
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Bhutan
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
...valleys of the southern foothills of the Himalayas may rise as high as 101 ° F...January. The high mountains of the Greater Himalayas in the north have more severe weather...rainfall varies by region. The northern Himalayas are relatively dry, and most precipitation...
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Pahari
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...European-speaking peoples of the Himalayas who, however, generally prefer regional...occupy the outer, lower ranges of the Himalayas — generally between about 600...massive scarp, which even the lower Himalayas present to the flat Indo-Gangetic Plain...
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Punjabi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...rivers to the south that flow out of the Himalayas to join it: the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi...Ghaggar, which also traces from the Himalayas to the Indus and joins it about where...range in Pakistan and parts of the lower Himalayas in India. Its area is about 270,000...
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