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unusual facts about bluffs


William B. Pine

Born in Bluffs, Illinois, Pine graduated from a high school in Naples, Illinois in 1896 and taught school for three years while selling harvesters during the summer.


9th Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The canal was intended to connect a loop in the Mississippi River and allow Union ships to bypass the cannons on the bluffs at Vicksburg and have free access from the north to the Gulf of Mexico.

A Little Trip to Heaven

Holt bluffs, claiming a hidden camera will help sort out who was truly on the bus; many leave, and his co-worker (Peter Coyote) quickly tells him their company wants him to investigate a crash in the remote and desolate town of North Hastings, Minnesota.

Andorra, Philadelphia

says that the neighborhood (which occupies one of the higher elevations in Philadelphia, on bluffs overlooking the Schuylkill River) was named "Andorra" after a fancied resemblance to the small country of the same name which sits astride the Pyrenees between France and Spain.

Battle of Perryville

The brigade of Brig. Gen. Daniel S. Donelson was the first to cross the Chaplin River, climb the bluffs on the west bank, and began its attack around 2 p.m.

Cat Creek, Montana

The vegetation of the Cat Creek area is diverse with the plains areas featuring a sparse growth of buffalo grass, black sage and greasewood while on the northern bluffs, bull pine grow.

Council Bluffs and Ottumwa Railway

In May 1991, the Council Bluffs and Ottumwa Railway's assets were sold to the Council Bluffs Railway, a subsidiary of OmniTRAX.

Council Bluffs Railway

A subsidiary of OmniTRAX, the Council Bluffs Railway began operations in May 1991 when it took over the 30-mile terminal switching operations of the former Council Bluffs and Ottumwa Railway, which was a subsidiary of National Railway Systems and operated that trackage from 1989 to 1991.

Davenport, California

The town is presently noted for the spectacular cliffs and bluffs above the Pacific, beaches in between cliffs, surfing opportunities, the cement plant run by Cemex (shuttered in January 2010), and the former headquarters of Odwalla, a company that makes fruit juices.

Discovery Bay, Washington

Cape George is located on high bluffs at the northeast entrance of the bay.

Empire, Michigan

With the Empire Bluffs to the south and the widely recognizable sand dunes of the National Lakeshore to the north, the area possesses breathtaking vistas of the dunes, North Manitou and South Manitou islands, and Lake Michigan.

Fola La Follette

She appeared on Broadway in such plays as Leo Ditrichstein's Bluffs (1908), Percy MacKaye's The Scarecrow (1911) and the Broadway production of her husband's Tradition.

Fort de Villey-le-Sec

Villey-le-Sec was planned to protect the southwestern approach to Toul, located on the plateau of Haye, supported on the south by the bluffs along the Moselle.

Garces Memorial High School

The school is located near the terminus of the Panorama (aka China Grade) Bluffs on the exact site that Father Francisco Garces wrote would make a perfect place for a mission for the local Indian populace in his exploration of the Rio Bravo de San Felipe now known as the Kern River.

Humid Pampas

Except for a few bluffs near the Paraná and Río de la Plata rivers, as well as the Tandilia and Ventania mountain ranges to the south, the region's slope rarely exceeds 6 degrees.

John Gould Fletcher

The two of them built "Johnswood", a residence on the bluffs of the Arkansas River outside Little Rock.

K54GL

In the past, TBN was also seen on channel 39 in Council Bluffs and channel 45 in Omaha (thus the TV-45, INC. licensee); however, both of these channels had to be vacated in preparation for ATSC digital TV as they had been assigned to full-power stations KMEG and KMTV.

Katy Township, Boone County, Missouri

The Katy Trail State Park travels under the Moniteau Bluffs as it passes through the township.

Lake of the Ozarks

This Arnold Palmer layout is a big-time test(7,150 yards from tips) nestled between Lake of the Ozarks and imposing bluffs of Osage River.

Lake Souris

Therefore, when its channel of discharge was transferred to the new course by Pelican Lake and along the Pembina River, Lake Souris was suddenly lowered about 125 feet to the level of the top of the bluffs of Langs Valley, and a further lowering of 110 feet was afterward effected by the gradual erosion of this valley.

Malacothrix squalida

It is endemic to Santa Cruz and Anacapa Islands, two of the eight Channel Islands of California, where it grows on rocky seaside bluffs and cliffs.

Nanzan

Nevertheless, the kingdom survived for roughly a century, benefiting from sea trade, and from the advantageous location of Ōzato Castle, situated atop tall bluffs, with an inlet from the sea and its own dedicated dock.

Playland

Dodge Park Playland, a defunct amusement park formerly located in Council Bluffs, Iowa

Pseudometapterus umbrosus

It has been reported from spider webs and plants (Heuchera parviflora) on sandstone and limestone bluffs.

Scarborough Bluffs

The Bluffs were named after Scarborough, England by Elizabeth Simcoe, the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada.

St. Croix Boom Site

Its location at the head of Lake St. Croix, the broad, slow area of the river that stretches from Stillwater to Prescott, Wisconsin, where the St. Croix joins the Mississippi River, is undeveloped and features many islands and tall sandstone bluffs on either side of the river.

Thomas L. Kane

Kane County, Utah was named for Thomas L. Kane, as was the Kanesville Tabernacle in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Western Illinois Valley Conference

A total of 14 school are members: Ashland (A-C Central), Bluffs, Carrollton, Concord (Triopia), Greenfield, Hardin (Calhoun), Jacksonville (Illinois School for the Deaf), Jacksonville (Routt), Mt. Sterling (Brown County), Pleasant Hill, Virginia, White Hall (North Greene) and Winchester.

William Harrison Folsom

Notably, he worked on columns for the Nebraska Territory capitol building, which were transported across the Missouri River from Council Bluffs to Omaha.


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