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Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau (VAI), an Austrian plant manufacturer and a VA Tech subsidiary, now part of Siemens


A Jewish Girl in Shanghai

One flashback scene of the film, set in 1936, sees Rina and Michaili, in what appears to be an alpine setting in Europe, escaping being bombed by Nazi planes, despite the date preceding the aerial warfare of the Second World War.

Al Gromer Khan

Né Alois Gromer, Al Gromer Khan was born on April 8, 1946 at Frauenzell (municipality Altusried/Allgäu) in alpine foothills of Bavaria between Lake Constance and Munich.

Alpine Meadows, California

Alpine Meadows played the part of the fictional "Alpine College" in the 1966 Universal Pictures comedy film, Wild Wild Winter, with all of the exterior sequences being shot on location.

Alpine Rally

The Alpine Rally, also known by its official name Coupe des Alpes, was a rally competition based in Marseille and held from 1932 to 1971.

Annemarie Moser-Pröll

Born in Kleinarl, Salzburg, she was the most successful female alpine ski racer during the 1970s, with six overall titles, including five consecutive.

Bakuriani

Georgia's flag-bearing athlete at the opening ceremony, alpine skiier Iason Abramashvili, also resides there; he has decided to compete to honor Kumaritashvili's memory.

Barthélemy Menn

In the following year, he exhibited a large alpine landscape, "Wetterhorn from Hasliberg", which caused a minor scandal as it did not meet the public's and critics’ expectations of smooth, highly finished, heroic alpine views.

Beatrice Willard Alpine Tundra Research Plots

The plots were used by Beatrice Willard of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado from 1959 to about 1999 in a long-term study of the alpine ecosystem.

Beinn a' Ghlò

It is a region of European dry heaths and there are many species of alpine and marsh plants on the mountain such as the rare yellow oxytropis (Oxytropis campestris), mountain avens (Dryas octopetala), rock speedwell (Veronica fruticans), rock sedge (Carex rupestris) and green spleenwort (Asplenium viride).

Birger Ruud

In 1987, a bronze sculpture of Birger Ruud, by the Norwegian sculptor Per Ung, was set up in Ruud’s native town of Kongsberg, and in 1991 he was awarded the Egebergs Ærespris for his achievements in ski jumping and alpine skiing.

Brienz

In the 5th century BC, the Celts settled in the alpine valleys among the sources of the Rhone, the Rhine and the Danube, eventually stretching from the headwaters down to Vienna and Belgrade.

Campanula gelida

It evolved through specialization of an isolated population of Campanula scheuchzeri, an Alpine species, which expanded to the area of the Sudetes during a colder period, probably the last ice age.

Cape Chignecto Provincial Park

The park's high southern cliffs support species of vetch and primrose with Alpine characteristics which are unique in Nova Scotia.

Carrabassett Valley Academy

Bode Miller - 2004/2005; 2007/2008 Alpine Overall World Cup Champion; Olympic Gold, Silver, & Bronze Medalist,

Cerro Castillo

800m ice mixed gully on East Face, up to 85 degrees, alpine TD grade, by Joan Sole/Carlos Buhler

Chamois

Alpine chamois arrived in New Zealand in 1907 as a gift from the Austrian Emperor, Franz Joseph I.

Chittagong Ship Breaking yard

In 1960, after a severe cyclone, the Greek ship M D Alpine was stranded on the shores of Sitakunda, Chittagong.

Col du Corbier

Col du Corbier is a French Alpine pass located in Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France between the towns of Le Biot and Bonnevaux (Haute-Savoie).

Cretinism

Cretin became a medical term in the 18th century, from an Occitan and an Alpine French expression, prevalent in a region where persons with such a condition were especially common (see below); it saw wide medical use in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and was actually a 'tick box' category on Victorian-era census forms in the UK.

Dawson, Oregon

Dawson lies about 6 miles west of 99W on Dawson Road west of Bellfountain, northwest of Alpine, and north of Glenbrook.

Dragon Lake

Drakolimni, the name of several alpine or sub-alpine lakes in the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece

Edelmiro Julián Farrell

He served in an Italian alpine regiment in Fascist Italy between 1924 and 1926.

Exilles

The ancients considered Exilles the first place in Italy coming from Gaul over the Alpine passes.

Fernie Alpine Resort

During spring 2009, Fernie Alpine Resort was temporarily transformed into the fictional Kodiak Valley ski resort, circa 1986, for exterior location shots for the Hollywood film Hot Tub Time Machine.

Garmisch Classic

The area hosted the World Championships in 2011 and 1978, and alpine skiing debuted at the Winter Olympics here in 1936.

Giuseppe Occhialini

During WW II, staying in Brazil, then a country hostile to Italy, he became an authorized alpine guide in the Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, where there is a peak named "Pico Occhialini".

History of Styria

The railway brought tourists to alpine lake resorts and mineral springs at Rohitsch (today's Rogaška Slatina) and Bad Gleichenberg, the brine springs of Bad Aussee, and the thermal springs of Tuffer (today's Laško), Neuhaus am Klausenbach and Tobelbad.

KBAL

KBAL-FM (90.3 FM), a religious radio station licensed to Alpine, Texas

Leoganger Ache

The B 164 Hochkönig Road (which comes from Bischofshofen via Dienten and Saalfelden) runs along the Leoganger Valley over the Grießen Pass and via Fieberbrunn to St. Johann in Tirol – it is the only internal Austria link between Tyrol and the east which does not cross a high Alpine pass, but is also linked to Salzburg via the Little German Corner.

Marco Sullivan

Sullivan was the Downhill champion at the U.S. Alpine Championships in 2007 in the Alyeska Resort in Alaska; he finished more than a full second ahead of runner-up Erik Fisher.

Meta Brevoort

She made a number of important ascents in the Alps in the 1860s and 1870s, but was thwarted in her two greatest alpine ambitions: to be the first woman to climb the Matterhorn, and the first person to climb the Meije in the Dauphiné.

Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye railway

The line continues higher to the small village of Caux passing through Alpine meadows which, in the Springtime, are full of wild growing narcissus, forget-me-nots and others, before reaching its upper terminus at Rochers-de-Naye, the home of the Marmot Paradise, a centre where seven varieties of these small mammals can be seen in a natural environment.

Mount Bryce

The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after Viscount James Bryce, who was President of the Alpine Club in London at the time.

Oppdal

Oppdal is an alpine community which dates back to the Norwegian Iron Age.

Ouvrage Roche-la-Croix

:See Fortified Sector of the Dauphiné for a broader discussion of the Dauphiné sector of the Alpine Line.

Paris Peace Treaties, 1947

The border with France was slightly modified in favor of France, mostly in uninhabited Alpine area, except for the Tende valley and La Brigue.

Piedmont

Alpine tourism tends to concentrate in a few highly developed stations like Alagna Valsesia and Sestriere.

Rick Celebrini

He became the team physiotherapist for the Canadian Alpine Men’s Ski Team at the 1994 Winter Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics.

Rudolf Koppitz

While working in Vienna early in his career, Koppitz photographed many of the picturesque aspects of the city - St. Stephen's Cathedral, Karl's Church - and traveled to photograph Hungarian villages, fishing boats near Delft, views of Dresden and alpine landscapes.

Salyes

In addition to the capital of the Salyes at Entremont, where two major routes crossed, the inland route from the fords of the Durance to the Alpine valleys and the natural coastal route linking Italy and Hispania, among other important Roman towns in their territory may be mentioned Tarusco or Tarasco (Tarascon), Arelate (Arles), Glanum (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence) and Ernaginum (Saint-Gabriel, now part of Tarascon).

Sleeping Giant Provincial Park

Plants found in the park include 23 species of orchids including Bog Adder's-mouth (Malaxis paludosa) and Small Round-leafed Orchis (Amerorchis Rotundifolia), two of Ontario's rarest species, as well as 22 species of alpine arctic disjuncts.

Slogen

Later on that year it was climbed by the famous climber and alpine explorer William Cecil Slingsby.

Southern Alps

Plants adapted to the alpine conditions include woody shrubs like Hebe, Dracophyllum, and Coprosma, the conifer Snow Totara (Podocarpus nivalis) and Carex sedge grasses.

Southern Ontario Tornado Outbreak of 2009

At the resort itself, Georgian Peaks, the tornado tore the roof from the Alpine Centre, pulled cables from chair lifts and ripped apart lift houses and ski ramps.

St. Bartholomew's Church, Berchtesgaden

It named for Saint Bartholomew the Apostle (Bartholomäus in German), patron of alpine farmers and dairymen.

Stoneham Mountain Resort

In 1993 the mountain hosted a slalom event of the alpine skiing World Cup, won by one of the most dominant alpine ski racers in history, Alberto Tomba of Italy.

Storlien

The Swedish ski pioneer Olle Rimfors visited the Austrian Alps and returned with practical knowledge of Alpine skiing.

Willy Bogner

Willy Bogner, Jr. (born 1942), his son, German fashion designer and alpine skier


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