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  2. Lemming - Wikipedia

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    Lemmings form the subfamily Arvicolinae (also known as Microtinae) together with voles and muskrats, which form part of the superfamily Muroidea, which also includes rats, mice, hamsters and gerbils. A longstanding myth holds that they exhibit herd mentality and jump off cliffs, committing mass suicide.

  3. White Wilderness (film) - Wikipedia

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    White Wilderness contains a now-infamous scene that supposedly depicts a mass lemming migration, ending with hundreds leaping into the Arctic Ocean.The narrator of the film states that the lemmings are likely not committing suicide, but rather are in the course of migrating, and upon encountering a body of water are attempting to cross it.

  4. Phil Williams Commentary: Don't follow the 'lemmings' jumping ...

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    Someone somewhere threw some pronoun lemmings off a proverbial cliff and the left-wing world bought the lie and decided to go with it. The use of gender-neutral terms and preferred pronouns is ...

  5. Animal suicide - Wikipedia

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    [41] [42] Perhaps one of the most influential factors in this misconception was the 1958 Academy Award-winning Disney film White Wilderness, which showed staged footage of lemmings jumping off a cliff during reproduction. [43]

  6. Kittatinny Mountain - Wikipedia

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    There are several cliffs on the mountain. The largest is located at the Delaware Water Gap. The cliff is up to 300 feet (91 m) high and starts at Interstate 80 and extends about 400 meters along the mountain The second largest cliff is located 6 miles (9.7 km) north of the Gap, on the eastern side.

  7. Watchung Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The largest of the conservation efforts so far is High Mountain Park Preserve, which at 1,153.7 acres (4.669 km 2) sets aside one of the largest tracts of wilderness in the New Jersey Piedmont. The park is known to contain at least one globally imperiled plant, Torrey's mountain mint ( Pycnanthemum torrei ), as well as three other plants ...

  8. Who exactly is Geronimo -- and why do we say his name ... - AOL

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    Nowadays, this tradition has been carried on by adventurous folk who jump off various other objects: a diving board, a bungee-jumping cliff, a deck into a large pile of leaves. You’ve probably ...

  9. The Palisades (Hudson River) - Wikipedia

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    On June 23, 2015, officials of the South Korean conglomerate LG Group announced that their planned new North American headquarters building in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, which was originally designed to be 143 feet (44 m) tall, and would have broken the tree line on top of the Palisades, would be reduced to 69 feet (21 m) in height, thus ...