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The Death Valley Germans (as dubbed by the media) were a family of four tourists from Germany who went missing in Death Valley National Park, on the California–Nevada border, in the United States, on 23 July 1996. [1] Despite an intense search and rescue operation, no trace of the family was discovered and the search was called off. In 2009 ...
This narrow and winding valley, located between the second and third elevations of the Miedzyń Hills, became known as the Valley of Death. In early October 1939, before the arrival of the first transports of condemned prisoners, a unit of the German Arbeitsdienst appeared in the valley to dig several long trenches, 3 meters wide and 2.5 meters ...
Valley of Death (Polish: Dolina Śmierci) in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, is a site of Nazi German mass murder committed at the beginning of World War II and a mass grave of 1,200–1,400 Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by the local German Selbstschutz and the Gestapo.
Bloody Sunday (German: Bromberger Blutsonntag; Polish: Krwawa niedziela) was a sequence of violent events that took place in Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg), a Polish city with a sizable German minority, between 3 and 4 September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland.
Death Valley, California, July 3, 2017, Sentinel-2 true-color satellite image, scale 1:250,000. Map showing the system of once-interconnected Pleistocene lakes in eastern California (USGS) Death Valley is a graben—a downdropped block of land between two mountain ranges. [13]
Manly Beacon and Red Cathedral viewed from Zabriskie Point. The Amargosa Chaos is a series of geological formations located in the Black Mountains in southern Death Valley.In the 1930s, geologist Levi F. Noble studied the faulting and folding in the area, dubbing it the "Amargosa chaos" due to the extreme warping of the rock.
An intense heat wave melted away long-standing records across the western United States this past week, making it unbearably hot in cities from California through Nevada. Death Valley was sizzling ...
Zabriskie Point is a part of the Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California, United States, noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago—long before Death Valley came into existence.