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    mounts), the CH-47 Chinook (using the M24 and M41 mounts) in both door and ramp locations, the ACH-47A "Guns-A-Go-Go" variant of the Chinook (using the XM32...
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    downtown Portland. Boring lies southeast of the densest cluster of lava vents. The zone became volcanically active about 2.7 million years ago, with long...
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    another flank vent erupted dacitic lava that coursed to the west for at least 6.2 miles (10 km), with volcanic dikes that trend toward the vent still present...
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    criticized by Lance Reynolds, a flight engineer on board one of the three Chinook helicopters that had been attacked. Reynolds and other crew members said...
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    handling and export facilities were installed in the field, also used as a vent in winter 1995–96. This unit was decommissioned and removed using a heavy...
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    Marseille. Winds of Provence Classical compass winds Bora (wind) Cers (wind) Chinook wind Cierzo Etesian Gregale Khamaseen Levant (wind) Levantades Leveche...
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    relatively soft landing. The collective pitch control in a Boeing CH-47 Chinook is called a thrust control, but serves the same purpose, except that it...
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    The eruption was preceded by a two-month series of earthquakes and steam-venting episodes caused by an injection of magma at shallow depth below the volcano...
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    contains Surprise Lake and many volcanic cones, maars and craters, including Vent Mountain. The volcano has erupted mainly calc-alkaline rocks ranging from...
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    third-party recreational vehicle manufacturers at least as early as 1973, when a Chinook Mobilodge-built popup truck camper was paired with the longbed Toyota truck...
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    Springs Creek. The Shasta River is spawning site for a run of endangered Chinook salmon. Estimates suggest that 80,000 adults fish once returned to the...
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    a week. He named the new post office Illahe. The name derives from the Chinook Jargon word ilahekh, meaning "land" or "earth". Propelled by rowing, poling...
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    summit was formed as a result of cone-building eruptions from separated vents. The Pacific Crest Trail traverses the western flank of the mountain. Mount...
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    flooding. Oroville Dam completely blocks the anadromous migrations of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout in the Feather River. In 1967, in an effort...
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  • Indo-Pacific meat Captive-bred 5b Other fish Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss); Chinook (O. tshawytscha) and Masu salmon (O. masou) date uncertain Europe, Asia...
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  • represents a final stage of activity of the Leura volcano, when a small vent ejected a large volume of lava fragments in a short time, without a change...
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    On the eastern sides of the mountains, air warms as it drops, producing Chinook winds, considerably lower precipitation, and less forested landscapes....
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    in the oceans, and occur from near the surface to deep sea hydrothermal vents, with one species occupying caves above sea level. More than 900 species...
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    and the United States Department of Defense provided two Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters to transport heavy salvage gear to the site. Kulluk was successfully...
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  • Kwakwakaʼwakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, Makah, Coast Salish, Chimakum, Quileute, and Chinook.[citation needed] In 1773, present day San Blas, Nayanit, Mexico, the ship...
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    and the settlement of Kapaʻahu. In 1990, lava flows from the Kūpaʻianahā vent of Kīlauea, downrift from Puʻu ʻŌʻō, destroyed and partly buried most of...
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    aircraft "the Moose", because during ground refueling, the pressure relief vents make a sound like the call of a female moose in heat. Since 1999, C-17s...
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    Retrieved 2011-05-13. "Camaro Pace Car Arrives at NASCAR's Dickies 500 in Chinook Helicopter". Archived from the original on 2009-11-12. Retrieved 2011-05-13...
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    Strassburg, B.; Stevens, T.; Stokes, E.; Taylor, R.; Tear, T.; Tizard, R.; Venter, O.; Visconti, P.; Wang, S.; Watson, J. E. M. (2020). "Anthropogenic modification...
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    Northwest. St Paul, MN: Northern News Co. frontispiece. "Mowich" is the Chinook Jargon word for "deer". "Archaeology". Mount Rainier National Park. U.S...
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    estimated to be only 1,000 to 2,000 years old, produced from around 75 vents. The largest vent is the Lost Jim Cone, about 75 feet (23 m) high. One remnant of...
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  • for Balto. Nikki is a reddish-brown Chow Chow, Kaltag is a honey-yellow Chinook, and Star is a mauve-and-cream Alaskan Klee Kai. William Salazar served...
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    the Horn, through the Straights, or by Chagres [Panama]." Citations "[E]vents from January 1848 through December 1855 [are] generally acknowledged as...
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    Creek and several other minor tributaries before emptying into Lake Billy Chinook, an impoundment of the Deschutes River created by Round Butte Dam. The...
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  • 2011). "Behind Bars in Old Pacific County, 1902: The Hanging of Lum You". Chinook Observer. Archived from the original on 3 May 2013. Retrieved 18 August...
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