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unusual facts about Hilton Pier/Ravine


Hilton Pier/Ravine

It is maintained by the Newport News Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism.


Albion Falls

The ravine at the Albion Falls has a legend of the Lover's Leap.

Battle of Gully Ravine

In the ravine the 1st Battalion, Border Regiment did not advance as far as those troops on the spur since Ottomans there were somewhat sheltered from the deadly bombardment from the sea.

Battle of Tamai

A scouting party discovered that the main body of the Mahdist force was hidden in a nearby ravine, whereupon General Graham ordered the 42nd Black Watch to charge to clear those Mahdists out, leaving a wide gap where they had been stationed in the square.

Beleriand

Within the Echoriath, the Encircling Mountains, just west of Dorthonion and east of the River Sirion, lay a round level plain with sheer walls on all sides and a ravine and tunnel leading out to the southwest known as the Hidden Way.

Beltline Trail

The east loop started at Union Station, running east until turning north along the Don River, passing the Don Valley Brickworks, up through Moore Park Ravine and along the northern edge of Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

The Beltline Trail, designated the Kay Gardner Beltline Park east of Allen Road until Mount Pleasant Road, the Ravine Beltline Trail south of Mt. Pleasant Cemetery through the Moore Park Ravine, and the York Beltline Trail west of the Allen, is a 9 km cycling and walking trail in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Blackwell Gunfight

After completing their tasks, they then rode out of town to a small one-room shack next to a wooded ravine called Lost Creek.

Buddleja davidii 'Dartmoor'

Reputedly cloned from a plant found growing in a small ravine on Dartmoor near Yelverton by a retired American gardener by the name of Hayles, the shrub was introduced to commerce in 1973 and accorded the RHS Award of Garden Merit (record 678) in 1993 (reaffirmed 2010).

Camellia hongkongensis

In Hong Kong, three individuals of the species were first discovered in a ravine in Victoria Peak by Colonel Eyre in 1849; it is later found in Pok Fu Lam, Mount Nicholson, Mount Parker on Hong Kong Island.

Caoyun system

Later, in 486 CE, King Fuchai of Wu linked the Yangtze and Huai Rivers by excavating the Han Ravine (邗沟) so that water flowed from the Yangtze through the Lakes Fanliang (樊梁湖), Bozhi (博芝湖) and Sheyang (射阳湖) into the Wei at Huai'an.

Chavez Ravine

Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story, a film directed by Jordan Mechner, tells the story of how a Mexican American community was destroyed to make way for a low-income public housing project.

Cole Younger

They and another gang member, Charlie Pitts, waged a gun battle with a local posse in a wooded ravine along the Watonwan River west of Madelia, Minnesota.

Drobytsky Yar

Excursions to the ravine had already been held before, but the official opening was on January 27, the anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp's 1945 liberation (later designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day).

First Battle of Krithia

Two battalions of the 87th Brigade (1st Border Regiment and 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers) entered the ravine but were halted by a machine gun post near 'Y' Beach.

Grantham's Camellia

It was first discovered in the ravine of Tai Mo Shan in 1955 by AFCD.

Helena Kurcewiczówna

Bohun took the wounded girl to the ravine on the river Dniester in order to hid her.

Henry Morello

Henry 'Hank' Morello is an 84-year-old man from Anthem, Arizona who gained notoriety after surviving 5 days in the Arizona desert after his vehicle got stuck in a ravine near Crave Creek.

Kettle Mucubají

This moraine changed the course of the ravine from Rio Chama to Rio Orinoco and to the Atlantic Ocean.

La Higuera

On October 8, 1967, the Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was captured by the CIA-assisted Bolivian Army in the nearby ravine Quebrada del Churo, ending his campaign to create a continental revolution in South America.

Luis Lamas

Also in 1902, the foundation stone of the modern port of Rosario was laid, as works were initiated to clean up the ravine of the Paraná River and to build a new coastal avenue.

Mystery of Snow

In Kachin State, a boy searches for his missing father, who fell down a glacial ravine whilst on the search for a rare Burmese butterfly.

Operation Krohcol

At about 1400 hours, while advancing through a ravine above the Pattani River and still a mile short of the Ledge at Km 37, Krohcol's advance A (P.M.)Company (Subadar Sher Khan) came under fire again, this time from the Japanese 5th Division.

Peter Doig

The Architect's Home in the Ravine (1991) shows Eberhard Zeidler's modernist home in Rosedale at the heart of the Toronto ravine.

Ravin Bay

Discovered in 1840 by a French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville and named by him for the aspect of the coast, "ravin" being French for ravine.

Ravine des Casoars Wilderness Protection Area

Ravine des Casoars Wilderness Protection Area is located on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

Ravine Flyer II

The roller coaster traverses State Route 832 along its course, emulating the course of the Ravine Flyer.

Ravine Flyer III

The Ravine Flyer III was installed in the park 8 years before Ravine Flyer II.

Robgill Tower

The village's name is from the Old English personal name Hreodbeorht (modern name Robert) and Old Norse gil "ravine.

Sabahudin Vugdalić

Two years later, he rescued a mother and daughter from a car that had crashed into a ravine in Ivan planina while he was on leave from military duty.

Shorewood-Tower Hills-Harbert, Michigan

Besides the beachfront, its other features are its mesophytic forest with four co-dominant species, including both northern hemlock and southern tulip trees, an ample population of trillium seen in spring, and Deer Creek which winds its way through a common ravine area out to the lake.

Third Battle of Krithia

The 14th Battalion of King George's Own Ferozepore Sikhs Regiment, advancing along the floor of Gully Ravine, were almost wiped out, losing 380 men out of 514 and 80% of their officers.

Toronto ravine system

Ravines play an important background role in Atom Egoyan's film Chloe where the main characters live in a house atop the Cedarvale ravine.

Yanik Silver

The club has scuba dived off Iceland's Silfra Ravine, been off-road racing with Jesse James, annually spend a week at Richard Branson's Necker Island, had simulation dogfights in Word War II-era planes, and featured sessions with Tony Hawk, John Paul DeJoria, James, and Branson.


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