Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...striking the Kaiser in the course of some manoeuvres and that no altercation occurred between him and von Hahnke. He said that the Lieutenant went ashore for a spin on a bicycle and on descending a mountain path lost control of his machine, ran over the edge of a cliff, was dashed into the sea and killed...
...miners used used a cave in the cliff for a battery room and for a bomb proof shelter during the blasts. the specimens that are now being arranged for exhibition are largely specimens of feldspar quartz and spodumene. A number of specimens of pink afatite, a rare formation of granite, were found...
...many risks and had many narrow escapes from flying rock. Two and a half kegs of black-powder were used and from 40 to 50 tons of rock were lifted in one explosion which cut off some trees 18 inches thick that grew farther down the mountain. The cliff on which the work was done was very steep and rose for 400 feet on the side of the mountain. One large boulder 40 feet long and 10 feet wide was found some distance on occasion and smaller fragments from the block clipped off an oak tree two feet in diameter...
...weaving and carving. 6) At Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico, a great prehistoric com- munity dwelling, by the National Geographic Society, under Neil M. Judd. 7) At Mesa Verde National Park and the Rio Mimbres valley, New Mexico, a pipe shrine house, traces of a dice game, and other cliff-dwelling relics, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Smithsonian Institution. 8) In mounds at Albany, Ore., remains which indicate, in the belief of Dr. Edwin T. Hodge, of the University of Oregon, that the American aborigines, following the coast southward from Behring Straits, spread fanlike over the continent through...
...party will be conducted to the Upper and Lower Yosemite Fall, the highest cascade in the world. At the Sequoia Park the travelers will pass through the grove of giant trees and from there will proceed to the Grand Canyon and the Mesa Verde National Park, to inspect the cliff dwellings...