Frenchman, also known as Frenchman's Station or Bermond, was a community in Churchill County, Nevada, United States. Frenchman was located along U.S. Route...
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Look up Frenchman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A Frenchman is a French person. Frenchman may also refer to: Frenchman, Nevada, an unincorporated...
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Frenchman Flat is a hydrographic basin in the Nevada National Security Site south of Yucca Flat and north of Mercury, Nevada. The flat was used as an American...
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a census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States, located on the western base of Frenchman Mountain, east of Las Vegas. The population...
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Frenchman Mountain is a mountain located east of Las Vegas, Nevada. Made up of rocks similar to those found on the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Frenchman...
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abbr=on and is 370 m (1,210 ft) thick at Frenchman Mountain near Las Vegas, Nevada. Until 2020, the Frenchman Mountain Dolostone was also informally called...
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terrain. Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a 1 kiloton of TNT (4.2 TJ) nuclear bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat on January 27, 1951. The...
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Short Pole Line Road, Area 5, Frenchman Flat, Mercury, Nye County, NV" HAER No. NV-37-B, "Nevada Test Site, Frenchman Flat Test Facility, Well Five Booster...
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of Las Vegas in Clark County, Nevada. Even though Sunrise Mountain is over 3.3 miles (5.3 km) NNW of higher peak Frenchman Mountain many people in the Las...
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Great Unconformity (category Rock formations of Nevada)
prominent exposure of Powell's Great Unconformity occurs in Frenchman Mountain in Nevada. Frenchman Mountain exposes a sequence of Phanerozoic strata equivalent...
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The Frenchman Range is a mountain range in Clark County, Nevada. "Frenchman Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey...
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(SR 159) is a 31.204-mile (50.218 km) east–west highway in Clark County, Nevada, United States, providing access to Red Rock Canyon and serving as a thoroughfare...
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Bombing Range was designated the Nevada Proving Grounds (NPG) on December 18, 1950. The new NPG included "Yucca and Frenchman Flats, Paiute and Rainier Mesas"...
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Scott LeDoux (redirect from The Fighting Frenchman)
2011(2011-08-11) (aged 62) Nationality American Other names The Fighting Frenchman Statistics Weight(s) Heavyweight Height 6 ft 1+1⁄2 in (1.87 m) Stance...
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147 (SR 147) is a state highway serving the Las Vegas Valley in southern Nevada. It is signed as Lake Mead Boulevard and runs from Interstate 15 (I-15)...
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UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Murphy (category 2024 in sports in Nevada)
that took place on May 18, 2024, at the UFC Apex facility, in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States. A featherweight...
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Las Vegas Valley (redirect from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States. The state's largest...
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exists). Nuclear testing began at the Nevada Proving Ground in 1951 with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat. Over 1000 nuclear detonations were...
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Operation Plumbbob (category Nevada Test Site nuclear explosive tests)
nuclear tests that were conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site, following Project 57, and preceding Project 58/58A. The operation...
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Yucca Flat (category Landforms of Nye County, Nevada)
edge of NTS, about ten miles (16 km) north of Frenchman Flat, and 65 miles (105 km) from Las Vegas, Nevada. Yucca Flat was the site for 739 nuclear tests...
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Operation Ranger (category Nevada Test Site nuclear explosive tests)
be carried out at the Nevada Test Site. All the bombs were dropped by B-50D bombers and exploded in the open air over Frenchman Flat (Area 5). These tests...
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named mountain ranges in Nevada. Some of them are quite small but still constitute distinct biomes. Geography section of the Nevada article List of mountain...
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Sunrise Manor CDP near Las Vegas, Nevada, the temple sits on 10.3 acres (4.2 ha) of land at the base of Frenchman Mountain. A groundbreaking ceremony...
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Las Vegas High School (category 1905 establishments in Nevada)
Las Vegas High School is a public high school in Sunrise Manor, Nevada, part of the Clark County School District. It is the oldest high school in Las Vegas...
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Cold Springs Pony Express Station Ruins (category National Register of Historic Places in Churchill County, Nevada)
Cold Springs Pony Express Station Ruins, in Churchill County, Nevada near Frenchman, are the ruins of a Pony Express station built in 1860 or 1861. The...
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Target Nevada. It occurred on January 27, 1951, with the airburst of a bomb dropped from 20,000 feet over the desert, on Frenchman Flat, Nevada, by "Rosebud"...
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is a small volcanic field of rhyolitic lava domes and flows in western Nevada, located south of Reno. There is extensive geothermal activity in the area...
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Lincoln Lyon Mineral Nye Pershing Sto Wash White Pine Most ghost towns in Nevada in the United States are former mining boomtowns that were abandoned when...
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Upshot-Knothole Grable (category Nevada Test Site nuclear explosive tests)
away from the gun it was fired from, over a part of the Nevada Test Site known as Frenchman Flat. The explosion was an air burst of 160 m (524 ft) above...
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French people (redirect from Frenchman)
"immigrant", as a foreigner may be born in France. On the other hand, a Frenchman born abroad may be considered an immigrant (e.g. former prime minister...
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