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Reichenbach Falls
Reichenbach Falls waterfalls, total drop 656 ft (200 m), S central Switzerland, where the Reichenbach River joins the Aare River. Upper Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest cataracts (c.300 ft/90 m high) in the Alps. It is familiar to readers of A. Conan Doyle as the place where Sherlock Holmes... Read more |
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Leo Fall
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Seneca Falls Convention 1848
SENECA FALLS CONVENTION The Seneca Falls Convention, which took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, was the first national women's rights convention and a pivotal event in the continuing story of U.S. and women's rights. The idea for the convention occurred in London in 1840 when... Read more |
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Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls city (1991 pop. 75,399), S Ont., Canada, on the Niagara River opposite Niagara Falls , N.Y. Formerly called Clifton, it is a port of entry, an important industrial city, and the home of Canadian factories for many well-known U.S. firms. Electric power supplied by the falls supports... Read more |
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Klamath Falls
Klamath Falls, Oregon/USA Linkville A city settled in 1867 and renamed after the Klamath tribe in 1893. Mountains and a river have the name Klamath.... Read more |
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Ten Days That Shook the World
Ten Days That Shook the World, history by John Reed, published in 1919. A dramatization by Robert E. Lee was produced in 1973.A reportorial, firsthand, and sympathetic account of the November Revolution in Russia (1917), when, as the author puts it, “the Bolsheviki, at the head of the... Read more |
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Twin Falls
Twin Falls city (1990 pop. 27,591), seat of Twin Falls co., S Idaho, in the Snake River valley; inc. 1905. The city began as a center of a private irrigation project, which is supplemented by the Minidoka project of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. One of the falls of Twin Falls in the nearby gorge... Read more |
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Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls waterfall, c.1 mi (1.6 km) wide with a maximum drop of 420 ft (128 m), in the Zambezi River, S central Africa, on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border. The falls are formed as the Zambezi plummets into a narrow chasm (c.400 ft/120 m wide) carved by its waters along a fracture zone in the... Read more |
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Churchill Falls
Churchill Falls spectacular waterfalls of the upper Churchill River, 245 ft (75 m) high, SW Labrador, N.L., Canada; known as Grand Falls until renamed (1965) in honor of Sir Winston Churchill. The falls were first explored (1839) by John McLean, a trader of the Hudson Bay Company. Four miles (6.4... Read more |
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