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  2. Mount Lowe (California) - Wikipedia

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    Mount Lowe is a mountain on the southern fold of the San Gabriel Mountains.Originally named Oak Mountain, it was renamed for Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, who is credited for being the first person to set foot on and plant the American flag at its peak, and who built the Mount Lowe Railway to its foot in 1896.

  3. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A mountain range that seems to be a bunch of air? Alabama, New York: A township and small community in Genesee County, New York. New York has a number of places named after other states or countries. Alabaster, Alabama: Who's talking crap now, SHELBY?! Aladdin: A place in Wyoming probably filled with street rats. Also a ghost town in California.

  4. Pub names - Wikipedia

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    Chemic Tavern (formerly Chemical Tavern), Leeds, West Yorkshire. Named for the workers at the nearby Woodhouse Chemical Works, (C. 1840–1900) it was a beer house on the 1861 census when the licensee was James Lapish. [207] [208] Custom House Tavern, Wisbech: (now closed) named for the local customs post in the port. [3]

  5. A gate is installed on a Mount Fuji trail to control crowds ...

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    A crowd-control gate was installed halfway up Japan's Mount Fuji on Monday ahead of the July 1 start of this year's climbing season, but the governor of Yamanashi, one of the two prefectures that ...

  6. Tavern - Wikipedia

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    The legacy of taverns and inns is now only found in the pub names, e.g. Fitzroy Tavern, Silver Cross Tavern, Spaniards Inn, etc. The word also survives in songs such as "There is a Tavern in the Town". [4] The range and quality of pubs varies wildly throughout the UK as does the range of beers, wines, spirits and foods available.

  7. List of mountains and mountain ranges of Yellowstone National ...

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    Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though the park also extends into Montana and Idaho and its Mountains and Mountain Ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. There are at least 70 named mountain peaks over 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in Yellowstone in four mountain ranges .

  8. Crowd counting - Wikipedia

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    The Million Man March, Washington, D.C., October 1995 was the focus of a large crowd counting dispute. Crowd counting is the act of counting the total crowd present in a certain area. The people in a certain area are called a crowd. The most direct method is to actually count each person in the crowd.

  9. List of highest mountains on Earth - Wikipedia

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    Mauna Loa (4,169 m or 13,678 ft) is the largest mountain on Earth in terms of base area (about 5,200 km 2 or 2,000 sq mi) and volume (about 42,000 km 3 or 10,000 cu mi), although, due to the intergrade of lava from Kilauea, Hualalai and Mauna Kea, the volume can only be estimated based on surface area and height of the edifice.