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  2. Rock carvings at Alta - Wikipedia

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    The first carvings were discovered in autumn 1973 in the area of Jiepmaluokta (a Northern Sami name meaning "bay of seals"), about 4 kilometres from the town centre of Alta. During the 1970s, many more carvings were discovered all around Alta, with a noticeably higher density around Jiepmaluokta (of around 6000 known carvings in the area, more ...

  3. Etymology of place names in Los Angeles County, California

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    Cahuenga, the Spanish name for the Tongva village of Kawengna, meaning place of the mountain [1] César E. Chávez Avenue: César Chávez Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist [1] Crenshaw neighborhood Crenshaw Boulevard: George Crenshaw, banker and real estate developer Figueroa Avenue Figueroa Street

  4. American Land Title Association - Wikipedia

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    The American Land Title Association (ALTA), founded in 1907, is the national trade association representing more than 6,400 title insurance companies, title and settlement agents, independent abstracters, title searchers and real estate attorneys. ALTA's headquarters is in Washington, DC.

  5. World Heritage Rock Art Centre - Alta Museum - Wikipedia

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    Alta Museum is northern Norway's most-visited summer museum, with more than 1,000 visitors each day. [4] It is the second most visited attraction in Finnmark County. It presents exhibitions on local culture and historic industries including the nearby prehistoric rock carvings that form a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

  6. Rock art of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Cave paintings, rock paintings and especially open air sites are found on the continent, the British isles and all over the Scandinavian peninsula as well as in Finland and Russia. Perhaps the most famous site is the Rock carvings at Alta in the north of Norway with the largest collection of hunter gatherer rock art in northern Europe.

  7. Altadena, California - Wikipedia

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    Byron O. Clark established a nursery in the foothills in 1875, which he named "Altadena Nursery", a name he coined from the Spanish alta meaning "upper" and dena from Pasadena. In 1880 or 1881, Capt. Frederick Woodbury, and his brother, John Woodbury of Marshalltown, Iowa, purchased 937 acres (379 ha) known as the Woodbury Ranch. The land ...

  8. Petroglyph - Wikipedia

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    The word comes from the Greek prefix petro-, from πέτρα petra meaning "stone", and γλύφω glýphō meaning "carve", and was originally coined in French as pétroglyphe. In scholarly texts, a petroglyph is a rock engraving, whereas a petrograph (or pictograph) is a rock painting. [1] [2] In common usage, the words are sometimes used ...

  9. Boundary (real estate) - Wikipedia

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    A unit of real estate or immovable property is limited by a legal boundary (sometimes also referred to as a property line, lot line or bounds). The boundary (in Latin: limes ) may appear as a discontinuation in the terrain: a ditch, a bank, a hedge, a wall, or similar, but essentially, a legal boundary is a conceptual entity, a social construct ...