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unusual facts about The Cliff




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Aitakatta

The girls took a trip down to Tateyama, Chiba to film the video clip, with the main dance scenes set at the cliff of the Sunosaki Lighthouse.

Benedict of Nursia

On his way from Enfide, Benedict met a monk, Romanus of Subiaco, whose monastery was on the mountain above the cliff overhanging the cave.

Bleak House, Broadstairs

Bleak House, formerly known as Fort House, is a large house on the cliff overlooking the North Foreland and Viking Bay in Broadstairs, Kent.

Christoff Cliff

The cliff is named after the famous Bulgarian singer Boris Christoff (1914-93).

Cliff Young Australian 6-day race

One of a small handful of Six Day races around the world, the Cliff Young has had many fine performances culminating in November 2005 with Yiannis Kouros, arguably the best multiday runner in the world, setting a new world 6 Day record.

Clogwyn Du'r Arddu

The cliff has attracted leading climbers of many eras, from the Abrahams through Kirkus, Harding, Brown, Whillans, Crew, Edwards, Ward-Drummond, Redhead and finally Dawes.

Climbers who have contributed to the many high-quality routes on the cliff included John Streetly Jack Longland, Ron James, Colin Kirkus, Joe Brown, Don Whillans, and Johnny Dawes.

Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park

The location is easily recognizable when watching Rambo: First Blood where Sylvester Stallone hangs off the cliff while a helicopter tries to snipe him down.

Fajã Maria Pereira

The cliff is locally chosen on fishery founded including Sparisoma cretense and a few others.

Flame fougasse

A further variant of the hedge hopper idea was devised for St Margaret's Bay where the barrels would be sent rolling over the cliff edge.

Folkestone Harbour

An engineer from Romney Marsh advised the local fisherman that the construction of 3 timber/stone jetties would protect the cliff (below the parish church).

Formica cunicularia

:In the New Forest it occurs in earth-mounds, at Seaton under stones, in the Landslip, Isle of Wight, in the side of the cliff, and at Fairlight I found it in the side of the cliff and in earth-mounds in the undercliff - one of the nests being traced by tracking a worker which was carrying home a fly in its jaws.

Goober and the Ghost Chasers

The ghost of Captain Ahab and Moby Dick are haunting the old mansion on the cliff and it's up to Goober and the kids to interview them for their magazine.

Hugh Park

Miles Giffard in the early 1950s: the accused had murdered his wealthy parents in their kitchen, placed their bodies in a wheelbarrow, wheeled them to the cliff edge, and tipped them down into the sea.

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas

As they fall, they are rescued by a flying reindeer, who takes them to the other side of the cliff and introduces himself as Prancer.

Jurassic Park: The Game

The trio manages to get the ride operational and attempts to ride it down to the base of the cliff, but as they do so, a pack of Herrerasaurus attacks them.

Linda Connor

Connor's noted images include a photograph of a ceremonial cloth carefully wrapped around a tree trunk in Bali, petroglyphs hidden in the cliff dwellings of Arizona, star trails in Mexico, and votive candles meticulously arranged for ceremonial rites at Chartres.

Mark Wellman

Mark Wellman is an author, filmmaker, paralympian, and motivational speaker, who is best known for his 1989 ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, which was the first ascent of the cliff by a paraplegic.

Michael C. FitzGerald

Although known principally as a scholar on Pablo Picasso, FitzGerald's interests have varied into the role of photography in preserving the record of art history, as in his 2009 March 13 article in the Wall Street Journal on 19th century Finnish-Swedish scientist Gustaf Nordenskiöld's work with the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, Colorado.

North Wollongong, New South Wales

West of North Beach is a small strip of park along the cliff that runs between Cliff Road and the bike track.

Nyack Beach State Park

Hawks and raptors nest in the cliff and are easily viewed from the pathway.

Overstrand

The London journalist and travel writer Clement Scott came to Overstrand in 1883, christened the area ‘’Poppyland’’, and wrote about the church tower on the cliff edge and its “Garden of Sleep”.

Paul Genge

Ironically, in that episode he and his comrade, in attempting to hijack goods from a truck driven by Paul Drake, are killed when their car loses control and rolls down the cliff, somewhat similar to the chase scene in Bullitt.

Riverlife Adventure Centre

The dreamtime story of ‘The Rainbow Serpent' tells of the creation of the cliff area along the river bank at Kangaroo Point.

Salomon of Cornwall

On the cliff at St Levan is St Levan's Well and below it the probable remains of his chapel, which were described by William Borlase in his Antiquities.

South Plaza Island

On the steep banks it is possible to see a great number of birds such as nesting Red-billed Tropicbirds and Swallow-tailed Gulls, but most of all, enjoying the beautiful view from atop the steep banks or strolling along the base of the cliff is an extremely pleasurable experience.

Stormy Sea in Étretat

The cliff that can be seen is that of Étretat (Seine Maritime), as Monet stayed in the city many times from the winter 1864-1865, and wrote: "I spend my time outdoors on the stone when it's big time ... and of course I work all the time."

Sutro District

An attempt by the National Park Service to have the district listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places was unsuccessful, though the Camera Obscura on the property of the Cliff House was successfully added to the National Register on its own.

Tarpeian Rock

Murderers, traitors, perjurors, and larcenous slaves, if convicted by the quaestores parricidii, were flung from the cliff to their deaths.

The Flageolet Player on the Cliff

The Flageolet Player on the Cliff was acquired in 1998 as part of a collection of Gauguin and his Pont-Aven coterie.

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

The BBC adaptation was partly shot at the Belle Tout lighthouse at Beachy Head, which has since been moved several meters from the cliff edge, due to the rapid rate of coastal erosion in the area.

Thomas Staines

The landing party attacked a Martello tower, which they captured, and threw its gun, a long 32-pounder, over the cliff.

Truth and Bright Water

The first person narrator, a 15-year-old Native American (Blackfoot) youth, Tecumseh (named after the famous Shawnee leader), watches a strange woman jump off the cliff into the river that marks the border.

Vectidraco

In November 2008, the four years old Daisy Morris of Whitwell, Isle of Wight, an avid natural history collector, discovered some small bones in a rock below the cliff face of Atherfield Point at the southwest coast of Wight.

Wesserpeton

The type locality (Bed 38) is exposed at Yaverland while the rest (Bed L2) are exposed high in the cliff at Sudmoor Point but have yielded only NHMUK PV R36539, R36522 and R36553–36558.

Wintour's Leap

Wintour's Leap is named after Royalist Sir John Wintour who, hotly pursued on his horse by Parliamentary forces, according to local myth survived a leap off the cliff and, landing safely in the Wye below, swam to safety in the nearby Chepstow Castle.

York Harbor, Maine

The Cliff Walk, an ancient shoreline path lined with beach roses, winds along Eastern Point ledges above the surf.