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... QUESTION TIME I—How many counties touch Lough Neagh and what are their names? 2—Where Is the Yosemite Valley? 3—Who was the French writer who invented the character of Figaro? 4—Where is the Frazer River? (Answers on Opposite Page) ...

Published: Tuesday 19 September 1950
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 38 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE I. Where was Sir William Wallace born? 2. Who was Bathgate's greatest son? 3. Lettuce, peas ..

... 4. Who put the Duff in Dufftown ? 5. Where is wax derived from? 6. When was the Battle of Flociden? 7. Where is the Yosemite Valley) 8. How did Pennsylvania get its name? 9. In music, what is meant by motif? 10. Who was liberator of the Israelites from ...

STRONG WEST WIND. The High Sierras can be seen in the distance

... distance THE LOWER YOSEMITE VALLEY, WITH THE SHEER CLIFFS OF EL THE RIGHT, FROM SE TINAL DOME. (Right) A TREE ON SENTINAL DOME BE DOWN BY THE three groves of giant sequoias, and a great variety of plant and animal life. Yosemite Valley is the earliest and ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1954
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1180 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

FIFTY YEARS AGO

... Birmingham Post SATURDAY, JUNE 22. 1907 THE WILD WEST.—A telegram from San Francisco tells of a lone bandit exploit in the Yosemite Valley of California. A single highwayman succeeded in holding up two stage-coaches containing 16 passengers. Grasping one of ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1957
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 143 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... Birmingham Post SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1907 THE WILD WEST.—A telegram from San Francisco tells of a lone bandit exploit in the Yosemite Valley of California. A single highwayman succeeded in holding up two stage-coaches containing 16 passengers. Grasping one of ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1957
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 195 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

SANCTUARIES

... Unfortunately the rarities do not lend themselves to mass treatment, and suggestions for national parks like that of the Yosemite Valley in America do not meet the real problem in this country. We cannot persuade the Kentish plover to leave its tiny strip ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1950
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FIFTY YEARS AGO

... Birmingham Post SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1907 THE WILD WEsr.—A telegram from San Francisco tells of a lone bandit exploit in the Yosemite Valley of California. A single highwayman succeeded in holding up two stage-coaches containing 16 passengers. Grasping one of ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1957
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 244 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

EMPLOYERS AND UNIONS TO MEET ON DOCKS PAY

... has died as a result of a road accidet in which his wife waN Mr. and Mrs. Da we -e returning from a vacation in tile Yosemite Valley when their car 'collided with a lorry. Both were trapped in the wreckage. which burst into flamec. 'Two assengers were ...

Published: Thursday 21 August 1958
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 267 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... the novel will remember those little luxuries of invention, the dreamopera, the mammoth, and the couple of hours In the Yosemite Valley that are part of Mary and Peter's dreaming true. I found myself thinking of these things on that Norwich night. and ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1957
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 266 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

almost every beauty spot in the area. During the winter all the high ground is nowbound, but the road is

... we were able to observe its growth rings and the character of its wood. My friend had telephoned for accommodation in Yosemite Valley, but as none was available he had made a tentative re ervation at a hotel in \•Va,,·ona. Vlfe therefore returned to the ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1954
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2381 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

BEAUTIES OF A CALIFORNIAN PARK

... the gated colours were breath-taking in their magni-by ficence, and the forty-minute flight to Lake VALLEY, I THE YOSEMITE PARK, CALIFOR THE YOSEMITE VALLEY, I PARK, CALIFOR IA, SEEN FROM OUTSIDE WA · ONA TU NEL. El Capit an is on the left and Cathedral ...

Published: Thursday 07 January 1954
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1554 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

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... Mariposa. California. we were married. Bill and I. afterhe had ridden horseback miles over a rugged mountain pus to meet me Yosemite Valley. The prelcher Ittll had tonteced. Utrlna to make It m&e of aa oceulot for Y. had r adored tar the. Family Furnishers 4or ...

Published: Friday 22 November 1957
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 327 | Page: 12 | Tags: none