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unusual facts about topographical



Adirondack Park

In 1878, Seneca Ray Stoddard produced a topographical survey of the Adirondacks that was influential in the creation of the Park.

Alteveer, Groningen

Older topographical maps show that a part of the current village of Alteveer was formerly part of the neighbouring village of Tange; a name now used for the houses closer to the village of Onstwedde.

Carl Gugasian

He would begin by scouting for a bank in a particular location by studying topographical and street maps in the library, searching specifically for banks in small towns, close to wooded areas, on the other side of which was a road with easy access to a freeway.

Edmund Curll

In his last years Curll published a series of "Merryland" books which constitute a major contribution to the somewhat peculiar genre of English seventeenth and eighteenth century erotic fiction in which the female body (and sometimes the male) was described in terms of topographical metaphor.

Fosna-Hensbacka culture

This was due to environmental circumstances brought about by the relationship between the Vänern basin in the east, and topographical features in the North Sea basin to the west.

Franziska von Reitzenstein

She randomized her male pen name "Franz" in a topographical, statistical lexicon, whereas Nemmersdorf was the former name of a settlement in East Prussia, today Mayakovskoye.

George Airey

He was then thirty-two years of age, which, at a time when men became lieutenant-colonels at twenty-three, meant but little chance of rising, but nevertheless by his topographical knowledge he managed to be of great assistance to Sir Charles Grey, who in 1793 reduced the French West India islands with the help of Sir John Jervis.

Ghulam Ali Khan

His work encompassed portraits and topographical views, as well as paintings, which combine the two, such as the painting depicting the durbar of Colonel James Skinner.

Gustav Eduard von Hindersin

From 1830 to 1837 he attended the Allgemeine Kriegsakademie at Berlin, and in 1841, while still a subaltern, he was posted to the great General Staff, in which he afterwards directed the topographical section.

Hans Strøm

He is best associated with his topographical description of Sunnmøre.

Hesychius of Jerusalem

The anti-Semitic tone of many scholia may find an explanation in local conditions; likewise geographical and topographical allusions to the holy places of Palestine would be expected of an exegete living at Jerusalem.

Johann August Kaupert

Here he conducted topographical investigations of Athens and surrounding areas.

Joseph Christmas Ives

As a Second lieutenant from 1853 to 1854 he was appointed by the U.S. Army to the Topographical Engineers as assistant to Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple in the Pacific Railroad survey along the 35th parallel.

King's Island, Limerick

Samuel Lewis writing in 1837 in his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland describes Limerick's old city of Englishtown as resembling the city of Rouen, Normandy with the housing built in Flemish fashion.

Marcahuamachuco

Charles Wiener in 1880 published the first topographical description of Marcahuamachuco and named its principal compounds.

Mount Dalmeny

The topographical feature was first discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, who named it for the Right Honorable Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, then a junior lord of the Admiralty.

Otokichi

Otokichi is known to have returned to Japan twice, first as a translator on board HMS Mariner, which entered Uraga Port in 1849 to conduct a topographical survey.

Overland Trail

In 1851 U.S. Army Topographical Engineer Captain Howard Stansbury returning east from an expedition to the Salt Lake Valley described a route from Fort Bridger via the Bitter Creek valley and Laramie Plains to the North Platte River.

Peter V. Hagner

Hagner was the son of government auditor Peter Hagner, and was born in Washington, D.C. After graduating the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, Hagner was assigned first to artillery, then topographical engineers, and finally ordnance in 1838, in which department service he spent the balance of his career.

Robert Barlow

Robert Barlow (18 February 1813 – 16 February 1883) was a cartographer and topographical draftsman from England who spent most of his career there with the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain.

Samuel C. Mills

In 1858, Captain James H. Simpson, an officer in the Army's Topographical Engineers, was assigned to the reinforcements being sent to Utah Territory as part of the so-called Utah War.

Senecio kleinia

For topographical position of cardonales, always in displaced situations, and the more open and typical serial or subserial of tabaibales, it seems close to the first climax potential.

Stephen Farthing

During the 1990s, he reinvented history painting as a viable contemporary narrative taking on subject matters as diverse as the Battle of Trafalgar, swagger portraiture, and the topographical mapping of cities.

Upper Derwent Valley

The topographical similarity between the Upper Derwent Valley and the Ruhr Valley of Germany led to the dams being used as a practice environment for the Lancaster bombers of the 617 Dam Busters Squadron in 1943 before their attack on the Ruhr dams.

Verplanck

Verplanck Colvin (1847–1920), an American lawyer and topographical engineer

William Hammond Hall

After serving with the U.S. army engineers in the Civil War, Hall was assigned in the latter part of the 1860s to surveying the Western regions of the United States and preparing topographical maps.

William Pope McArthur

Among the passengers was future American Civil War General Joseph E. Johnston who accompanied the vessel as a civilian topographical engineer.

William Williams Mather

He was then ordered on topographical duty as assistant geologist to George W. Featherstonhaugh, to examine the country from Green Bay to the Coteau des Prairies.


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