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  • 101Stone run — A stone run (called also stone river , stone stream or stone sea [http://www.park vitosha.org/lang.php?lang=en Vitosha Nature Park: Basic Information. Landscape.] Vitosha Nature Park website.] ) is a conspicuous rock landform, result of the… …

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  • 102Platte Mound M — The Platte Mound M is the letter M written using whitewashed stones on Platte Mound about four miles east of Platteville, Wisconsin. It is the largest letter M in the world.cite news |first=Dennis |last=McCann |title=What s in an M, writ large?… …

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  • 103Beach Boulevard (Hamilton, Ontario) — Beach Boulevard is a Lower city street in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, north of the Hamilton Harbour on a thin piece of land that crosses over Lake Ontario and stretches from Confederation Park in the east to the Lift Bridge in the west at Eastport …

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  • 104Nepal — /neuh pawl , pahl , pal , nay /, n. a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet. 22,641,061; ab. 54,000 sq. mi. (140,000 sq. km). Cap.: Katmandu. * * * Nepal Introduction Nepal Background: In 1951, the Nepalese monarch… …

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  • 105Panama Canal — a canal extending SE from the Atlantic to the Pacific across the Isthmus of Panama. 40 mi. (64 km) long. * * * Canal of the lake and lock type, Panama. Extending across the Isthmus of Panama, it connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is… …

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  • 106Rocky Mountains — the chief mountain system in North America, extending from central New Mexico to N Alaska. Highest peak, Mount McKinley, 20,300 ft. (6187 m). Also called Rockies. * * * or Rockies Mountain system, western North America. It extends some 3,000 mi… …

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  • 107April 1999 Cincinnati tornado — Cincinnati Tornado of April 1999 Date of tornado outbreak: April 8 9, 1999 Duration1: 30 hours Maximum rated tornado2: F4 tornado Tornadoes caused: 54 confirmed Damages: $8 …

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  • 108Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence — (CETI) is a branch of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence that focuses on composing and deciphering messages that could theoretically be understood by another technological civilization. The best known CETI experiment was the 1974… …

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  • 109Wick —    WICK, a royal burgh, the county town, and a parish, in the county of Caithness; containing, with Pulteney Town adjoining and the villages of Sarclet, Staxigoe, Reiss, and Ackergill, 10,393 inhabitants, of whom 1333 are in the town, 16 miles (S …

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  • 110Marion County, Kansas — For counties with a similar name, see Marion County (disambiguation). Marion County, Kansas Marion County Courthouse in Marion …

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