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Adrien de Gerlache

Several geographical features were named in his honor, mostly in Antarctica: Cape Gerlache, Mount Gerlache, Gerlache Inlet, Gerlache Island, Gerlache Strait and the de Gerlache seamounts, as well as Pic de Gerlache in Greenland and de Gerlache crater, near the south pole of the moon.

Amparo and habeas data in the Philippines

Reynato Puno's 49-page unanimous ponencia granted amparo relief to the Manalo brothers who were abducted by the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) in San Ildefonso, Bulacan in February 2006.

Apacheria

(Note: This concerns the geographical region known as Apacheria. For the plant species Apacheria chiricahuensis, click here.)

Bariyarpur, Bara

Bariyarpur is a place situated in Munger, Bihar, India, its geographical coordinates are 25° 18' 0" North, 86° 35' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Bariārpur.

Bhattiana

This geographical area derives its name from the clan of Bhatis, who are Rajputs.

Boian culture

The culture's geographical extent went as far west as the Jiu River on the border of Transylvania in south-central Romania, as far north as the Chilia branch of the Danube Delta along the Romanian border with Ukraine and the coast of the Black Sea, and as far south as the Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea in Greece.

Cingulina spina

This species' distribution ranges from the northernmost existing specimens located within the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, to as far south as the South West Cape, Tasmania's southernmost point of land and off various coasts situated on the geographical exterior of the largest island in the world, Australia.

College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario

16 physicians elected by their peers on a geographical basis every three years; 3 physicians appointed from among the six faculties of medicine (at the University of Western Ontario, McMaster University, University of Toronto, Queen's University, University of Ottawa, and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine); no fewer than 13 and no more than 15 non-physician or 'public' members appointed by the provincial government for terms decided by the government.

Collón Curá River

The Collón Curá River is a geographical feature of Neuquén Province, Argentina.

Cowleaze

Cowleaze Chine, a geographical feature on the Isle of Wight, England

Daniel Ross

Daniel Ross (marine surveyor) (1780–1849), President of the Bombay Geographical Society, son of Hercules Ross

DeGoes Cliff

The geographical feature was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–63, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Louis DeGoes of the National Academy of Sciences, who was Executive Secretary of the Committee on Polar Research, United States National Research Council.

Diocese of Christchurch

Roman Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, a geographical area of the Roman Catholic Church, in New Zealand

Diocese of Dunedin

Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunedin, a geographical area of the Roman Catholic Church, in New Zealand

George Collingridge

His publication of The Discovery of Australia in 1895 earned him accolade as a "genius" and as "an authority on geographical matters" from members of the Royal Geographical Society as well as foreign honours: in 1908 he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of Santiago by the King of Portugal.

Gleniffer High School

The school serves children from the geographical areas of Foxbar, Glenburn and Lochfield.

Gopinath Muthukad

Lives and messages of freedom fighters including Mangal Pandey, Bhagat Singh and Tantia Tope were staged all over India travelling a distance of 24500 kilometers along the geographical, cultural and linguistic diversities of the great Indian sub continent.

Gordon Warwick

His specialisms were limestone and semi-arid climate processes, and he was a contributor to books such British Caving with Cecil Cullingford, A Dictionary of Geographical Terms with Sir L. Dudley Stamp and to the Guide to Birmingham and its Region of Prof Michael Wise.

Gornje Livade

Gornje Livade, Banat, a small geographical area in south-eastern Banat, Serbia.

I travelled among unknown men

Similarly, no insight can be gained from determining the exact geographical location of the 'springs of Dove'; in his youth, Wordsworth had visited springs of that name in Derbyshire, Patterdale and Yorkshire.

Imeros Rodopis

Imeros is an important geographical place, as it bonds the two regional units Xanthi and Evros.

Indian Ocean 2001

“Indian Ocean 2001” is a Multimedia presentation of geographical, oceanographic and fisheries related information of 35 countries around the Indian Ocean.

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

The database classifies viruses based primarily on their chemical characteristics, genomic type, nucleic acid replication, diseases, vectors, and geographical distribution, among other characteristics.

Julius Erasmus Hilgard

His first practical employment was in the preliminary surveys of the Bear Mountain railroad, then a new enterprise, hut his mental activity in a higher sphere soon manifested itself in a communication to Mr. Bache, made in January, 1844, in which he called attention to errors in the formulas used in the Coast Survey in the computation of geographical positions, and gave his own development of correct formulas.

Karl Andree

In 1862 he founded the important geographical periodical Globus.

Karl Oenike

In 1887 he was invited by Prof.Ludwig Brackebusch to participate in a geographical and geological expedition surveying the Andes mountains starting in the province of San Juan to the province of Catamarca in Argentina’s NW.

Maidenhead Locator System

In 1985, the Radio Society of Great Britain published a small set of BASIC language routines to convert from locator references to geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) for further processing.

Perl supports conversion between geographical coordinates and Maidenhead locators in module Ham::Locator by Andy Smith, available on CPAN.

Mericanel della Brianza

The Mericanel della Brianza is named after the Brianza, a hilly geographical area which extends to the north and north-east of Milan, in the provinces of Monza e della Brianza, Lecco and Como, with a small part of the province of Milan.

Morton Moyes

Several Antarctic geographical features, including Moyes Peak and the Moyes Islands, are named for him.

Municipium Dardanorum

The site is positioned in an excellent geographical place, set between the Ibër and Socanica river flows on one side, and surrounded by Rogozna and Kopaonik mountains on the other side.

North Queensland Labor Party

It has been classified as a 'aggrieved minority' party, meaning that its primary purpose (similar to the National Party of Australia) is representation of a particular geographical grouping of people within Australia, in this case North Queensland.

Phyllodactylus angustidigitus

This species is endemic from the Ica Region in southern Peru, and its known geographical distribution is restricted to the Paracas National Reservation, including two islands (La Vieja in the Bahia Independencia and Sangayan west of the Paracas Peninsula).

Rasoul Khorvash

He is graduated from Texas University in sports and before this, he was graduated from Isfahan University in geographical.

Robert McClure

This gala event, directed by the Rev Jeremy Frost and polar historian Dr Huw Lewis-Jones, celebrated the contributions made by the United Kingdom in the charting of the Canadian North and honoured the loss of life in the pursuit of geographical discovery.

Robert Sherlaw Johnson

The continuing influence of Sherlaw Johnson's geographical origins is evident in compositions, such as the Northumbrian Symphony and his opera, The Lambton Worm, that utilise material from the North-East of England.

Robertsite

Recently, in an exploration conducted by the Italian La Venta Geographical Association, confirmed the existence of Robertsite in the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of the city center of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines.

Shanghai Metal Exchange

SHME is located in the city of Shanghai and its geographical location bridges the time gap between London Metal Exchange and New York Mercantile Exchange markets, thus enabling traders across the world to have a 24-hour access to futures contracts of non-ferrous metals.

Simitli

Geographical locations of note are the Komatinski Cliffs between Brestovo and Sushitsa, the Kresna Gorge of the Struma River, and the foothills of the Pirin Mountains at Senokos.

St John-at-Hampstead

These plans originally involved the demolition of the tower, but this was shelved on protests from William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Holman Hunt, Ford Madox Brown, Anthony Trollope, George du Maurier, Coventry Patmore, F. T. Palgrave and others, in favour of simple extensions westwards in 1877–78 designed by F.P. Cockerell (though these extensions moved the church's high altar to the geographical west end, rather than the more usual east end).

Stepan Rumovsky

In 1786, he was responsible for publishing the first catalog in Russia with astronomical geographical coordinates for sixty-two sites, later republished in Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch (1790).

Thomas C. Acton

Action was a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Children as well as a member of the Geographical and New York Historical Society.

Time in China

Although the only official time zone in the PRC is Beijing Time, the People's Congress of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, due to its geographical location in the westernmost part of the country, proclaimed Ürümqi Time (UTC+6), two hours behind Beijing.

Tiv people

The geographical position of the Tiv, according to Laura Bohannan and Paul J. Bohannan (1969: 9)

United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names

The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) is one of the seven expert groups of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and deals with the national and international standardization of geographical names.

Unyamwezi

The first Europeans to reach the region were Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke, who had been sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society and the British government to investigate the great Lake Uniamési said by German missionaries to lie in the region and determine if it was the source of the Nile.

Valles Centrales de Oaxaca

Often called simply "Los Valles" by the people of Oaxaca, it is a geographical and cultural region consisting of three river valleys between the Nudo Mixteco, the Sierra Juárez and the Sierra Madre del Sur.

Valley Glen, Los Angeles

In the "Mapping L.A." geographical section of the Los Angeles Times website, the 4.81 square miles of Valley Glen are bounded on the north by Raymer Street, Sherman Way or Vanowen Street, on the west by the Tujunga Wash, Woodman Avenue or Hazeltine Avenue, on the south by Burbank Boulevard and on the east by the Hollywood Freeway.

Western Lowlands

It is one of the four geographical areas of Albania, the other being the Southern Mountain Range, Northern Mountain Range (the Albanian part of the Prokletije), and the Central Mountain Range.

WHEM

The Western Hemisphere, a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian.


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