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  2. The Grapes of Wrath review: Steinbeck’s hymn to human ... - AOL

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    John Steinbeck’s classic The Grapes of Wrath might be a bona fide Great American Novel but there’s something deeply un-American about its values. Dreaming isn’t enough, it argues. The system ...

  3. Weedpatch, California - Wikipedia

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    Weedpatch is the site of the Arvin Federal Government Camp, known colloquially (and in the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath) as "Weedpatch Camp". This camp was a government rescue center for distressed migrant workers fleeing the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, during the Great Depression. [7]

  4. List of national parks of Canada - Wikipedia

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    1 October 2005 (national park) August 1973 (national park reserve) 1,805 km 2 (697 sq mi) - Western Newfoundland highlands A World Heritage Site due to its exposed mantle and crust as an example of plate tectonics, the park also includes Western Brook Pond, Lobster Cove, and Gros Morne mountain in the Long Range Mountains chain. [26] Gulf Islands

  5. Gaspésie National Park - Wikipedia

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    Gaspésie National Park (French: Parc national de la Gaspésie) is a provincial park located south of the town of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Quebec, Canada in the inland of the Gaspé peninsula. The park contains the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains in Canada, Mont Jacques-Cartier , 1,270 metres (4,170 ft) above sea level.

  6. Quttinirpaaq National Park - Wikipedia

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    Quttinirpaaq National Park is located on the northeastern corner of Ellesmere Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is the second most northerly park on Earth after Northeast Greenland National Park. [4] In Inuktitut, Quttinirpaaq means "top of the world". [5] [6] It was established as Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve in ...

  7. Nááts'ihch'oh National Park Reserve - Wikipedia

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    Náátsʼihchʼoh National Park Reserve, which lies within the Mackenzie Mountains, takes its name from Nááts’ı̨hch’oh (Mount Wilson) at the north end of the park. Nááts’ı̨hch’oh is the Shúhtagot’ine description of the mountain, meaning "standing like a porcupine quill", a reference to its unique shape—sharp and pointed on ...

  8. The Grapes of Wrath - Wikipedia

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    The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. [2] The book won the National Book Award [3] and Pulitzer Prize [4] for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.

  9. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site - Wikipedia

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    Commemorative plate. In 1983 Canada nominated Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho national parks for inclusion on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. UNESCO accepted this nomination in 1984 on the basis of a recommendation by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).