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unusual facts about Northwest


Northwest, Washington, D.C.

Northwest (NW or N.W.) is the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street.


2012 NWT/Yukon Scotties Tournament of Hearts

Kerry Galusha and her team from Yellowknife won the tiebreaker final, and the right to represent Yukon/Northwest Territories, at the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Red Deer, Alberta, where Galusha would finish round robin with a 4-7 record.

Africa Humanitarian Action

The AHA teams targeted returnee populations and the internally displaced as they were deployed at two health centers, one in the northwest region at Tare in the Kigali Prefecture and a second at Kabarondo in Kibungo Prefecture in the southeast.

Aurorazhdarcho

In 1999 amateur paleontologist Peter Katschmekat uncovered a fossil of a pterosaur in the Blumenberg Quarry, three kilometres northwest of Eichstätt, in layers of the Solnhofen limestone.

Avenue Road

At its southern terminus, it runs between two of Toronto's major hotels, the Park Hyatt (on the northwest corner of Bloor and Avenue Road) and the Four Seasons Hotel.

Battles of Bir 'Asluj

During the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, Bir 'Asluj was used as a base of operations for Bedouin paramilitary forces under Hajj Sa'id, mainly against the nearby Jewish village Revivim, a few kilometers to the northwest.

BL 5.4-inch howitzer

The Ordnance BL 5.4-inch howitzer was a version of the British 5-inch howitzer designed for British Indian Army use, especially on the Northwest Frontier.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Other multi-state organizations include CareFirst in the Mid-Atlantic, The Regence Group in the Pacific Northwest, and Highmark which serves Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia.

Bouza Department

The major (unpaved) road in the area -- RN16 runs through Bouza town from Madaoua to the south to Keita in the north, before reaching Tahoua in the northwest of the Region.

California State Route 49

Near the town of Mount Bullion, SR 49 passes by Mariposa-Yosemite Airport before turning northwest and going through Bear Valley and the intersection with CR J16.

Carroll County, Tennessee

The Carroll County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport in located four nautical miles (4.6 mi, 7.4 km) northwest of the central business district of Huntingdon, Tennessee.

Château de la Brangelie

It is on the western edge of the département of Dordogne, 500 metres north-northwest of the town of Vanxains.

Circuit de la Sarthe

The track, which basically was a triangle from Le Mans down south to Mulsanne, northwest to Arnage, and back north to Le Mans, has undergone many modifications over the years, with CIRCUIT N° 14 being in use since 2007.

Columbia Bar

The Columbia Bar is part of a set of major marine coastal hazards along the Pacific Northwest coast, including Cape Flattery at the northwest tip of the Olympic Peninsula and Cape Scott, which is at the north tip of Vancouver Island.

Conduit Road Schoolhouse

The Conduit Road Schoolhouse is an historic school, located at 4954 MacArthur Boulevard, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Palisades neighborhood.

Denmark Township, Michigan

Vassar is a few miles southeast on M-15; Reese is a few miles to the north by county roads; I-75 is seven miles west on M-46, and Saginaw is just west of I-75; and Bay City is about 15 miles northwest on M-15.

Diphasiastrum

The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution, in much of the Northern Hemisphere, south in mountains to South America (reaching furthest south in Jujuy Province, northwest Argentina), New Guinea and the Marquesas Islands in the Pacific Ocean, but confined to climates with high humidity for most or all of the year (or, in cool climates, protected by snow cover in winter).

Engaruka

In addition, Engaruka has also been linked to the Sonjo, a numerically small Bantu-speaking living some 60 miles to the northwest.

Falcon Northwest

In 2005, Falcon Northwest's President, Kelt Reeves, had a heated exchange with HardOCP, an online magazine geared towards the PC hardware enthusiast and PC gaming communities.

Ferrocarril General San Martín

In the metropolitan sector of the City of Buenos Aires there is a diesel commuter branch that operates from the Retiro railway terminus in the city-centre northwest to Palomar, Hurlingham and Pilar.

Fourth Dynasty of Egypt

The names of Khufu and Djedefre were inscribed in gneiss quarries in the Western Desert 65 km to the northwest of Abu Simbel; objects dated to the reigns of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure have been uncovered at Byblos.

Fujiwara no Sumitomo

Government efforts to control him met with mixed success at best until the summer of 941, when forces under Ono Yoshifuru and Okura Harusane caught the pirate leader and most of his fleet in Hakata Bay, on the northwest coast of Kyushu, fresh from an unusually destructive raid on Dazaifu.

Geldern-Kapellen

The area Kapellen lies in the Niederrhein (Lower Rhine) in the northwest part of German Federal State of Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Geography of Bahrain

The other islands of significance include Nabih Saleh, which is northwest of Sitrah; Jidda Island and Umm as Sabaan, to the north of Umm an Nasan; and a group of islands, the largest of which is Hawar, near the coast of Qatar.

Georgia State Route 7 Connector

Georgia State Route 7 Connector (Lowndes County): A former connector route of Georgia State Route 7 that existed in rural parts of Lowndes County, northwest of Valdosta.

Gordon Robertson

Robert Gordon Robertson (1917–2013), Commissioner of the Northwest Territories

Government Medical College, Aurangabad

The college is located on the east bank of Kham river in northwest part of Aurangabad city, very close to famous tourist attractions like Panchakki and Bibi Ka Maqbara and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University.

Jeff Raikes

In 1992 the Pacific Northwest was in danger of losing the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball franchise.

Karadirlik

It is situated to the northwest of Berdan Dam reservoir and to the south of Keşbükü creek a branch of Berdan River.

Kathrine S. French

In later years of her life she remained active in anthropology, advising students as well as taking on numerous consulting projects on behalf of tribal groups, including research for Archaeological Investigations Northwest, Inc., throughout the lower Columbia River area.

Khap

These Khaps are found to be spread all the way from Northwest India down to Madhya Pradesh, Malwa, Rajasthan, Sindh, Multan, Punjab, Haryana, and modern Uttar Pradesh.

Kintambo

It is situated in the northwest of the city of Kinshasa, at the junction of Boulevard du 30 Juin (or more accurately its short extension, Avenue du Colonel Mondjiba), Avenue Kasa-Vubu and Route de Matadi.

Lake Neale

Lake Neale was named after Frank Neale, one of the pilots of an aerial expedition to accurately survey the desert regions northwest of Alice Springs in 1930.

Lohra

Among its neighbouring communities are Weimar an der Lahn in the northeast, Fronhausen in the southeast and in the northwest Gladenbach, all in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district, as well as the town of Lollar, Wettenberg and Biebertal in Gießen district, and Bischoffen in Lahn-Dill district.

Mansiche, La Libertad, Peru

Located in the northwest of Trujillo District was the outsides of the colonial city of Trujillo.

Merrimac, Massachusetts

Merrimac is roughly diamond-shaped, and is bordered by Amesbury and Lake Attitash to the northeast, West Newbury to the southeast, Haverhill to the southwest, Newton, New Hampshire, to the north and northwest, South Hampton, New Hampshire, to the far northeast, and Plaistow, New Hampshire, on the western corner.

Ninth Army

Ninth United States Army, one of the main U.S. Army combat commands used during the campaign in Northwest Europe in 1944 and 1945.

Non-commercial educational

Two such stations are WGPB FM in Rome, Georgia and WNGH-FM in Chatsworth, Georgia, former commercial stations purchased in 2007 and 2008 and operated by Georgia Public Broadcasting, serving the mountains northwest of Atlanta which previously had no GPB radio service.

Oberthal, Saarland

It is situated approximately 7 km northwest of Sankt Wendel, and 35 km north of Saarbrücken.

Onehouse

There is also a community centre shared by neighbouring villages, Shelland and Harleston (further northwest), where children and adults alike enjoy a wide number of activities including a weekly youth club.

Ontario Highway 409

Instead of continuing northwest from Highway 427 and through Malton's four-corners at Derry Road and Airport Road towards Brampton, it would curve southwest and provide access to the developing Pearson Airport.

Schefferville, Quebec

Many Naskapi first nation people mostly live in the village of Kawawachikamach, northwest of Schefferville.

Schmelz

It is situated approximately 15 km northeast of Saarlouis, and 25 km northwest of Saarbrücken.

Soulcatcher

A Soulcatcher (Haboolm Ksinaalgat, 'keeper of breath') is an amulet (Aatxasxw) used by the shaman (Halayt) of the Pacific Northwest Coast of British Columbia and Alaska.

Sulzbach-Rosenberg

It is situated approximately 14 km northwest of Amberg, and 50 km east of Nuremberg.

Tha Tan

Tha Tan is the northernmost subdistrict in Bang Krathum, bordering Wang Nam Khu of Amphoe Mueang Phitsanulok to the northwest, Amphoe Wang Thong to the northeast, Nakhon Pa Mak to the south and Bang Krathum to the southwest.

The Book of Giants

In 1904, German expeditions to Central Asia (Turpan in present northwest China) brought back many fragments of Manichaean holy texts, some of which were identified as belonging to The Book of Giants.

Uka Ga

The nearest settlements are located several kilometres to the south at Hpalamung along the same river and at Shirang to the northwest.

Wassuk Range

The mountains reach an elevation of 11,239 feet at Mount Grant, approximately eight miles northwest of Hawthorne.

Wings Alliance

As part of their partnership, Northwest had taken a stake in Continental, raising the hackles of antitrust regulators in the United States Department of Justice.

X-files unit

It contained information about a series of murders that occurred in Northwest America during World War II, seven of which took place in Browning, Montana.


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