Geographical features include Great Bear Lake, the largest lake entirely within Canada, and Great Slave Lake, the deepest body of water in Canada at, as well as the Mackenzie River and the canyons of the Nahanni National Park Reserve, a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Ice road on Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, 2009

Britain enacted the Slave Trade Act 1807, which barred the trade of slaves in Great Britain ( though slavery was still legal ).

Archaeological and linguistic evidence suggests the Navajo descended from the Athabaskan people near Great Slave Lake, Canada, who migrated after 1000 AD.

Jackson and Banting also made painting expeditions to Great Slave Lake, Walsh Lake ( Northwest Territories ), Georgian Bay, French River and the Sudbury District.

In 1907, Seton and the naturalist Edward Alexander Preble verified a claim from ten years earlier by the frontiersman Charles " Buffalo " Jones that Jones and his hunting party of musk oxen had shot and fended off a hungry wolf pack near the Great Slave Lake in Canada.

The Peace and Athabasca Rivers along with Great Bear and Great Slave Lake ( respectively the largest and second largest lakes wholly enclosed within Canada ), are significant elements of the Arctic watershed.

On the basis of maximum depth, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States, the second deepest in North America, after Great Slave Lake in Canada, and the ninth deepest lake in the world ( Lake Baikal is the deepest ).

When the Mackenzie River is ice-free, Northern Transportation Company Limited provides a commercial barge service from Hay River, on Great Slave Lake to the regional terminal in Inuvik.

Rising out of the marshy western end of Great Slave Lake, the Mackenzie River flows generally west-northwest for about, passing the hamlets of Fort Providence and Brownings Landing.

The Slave is the primary feeder of Great Slave Lake ( contributing about 77 % of the water ); other inflows include the Taltson, Lockhart and Hay Rivers, the latter of which also extends into Alberta and BC.

Great Slave Lake is slightly smaller, with an area of and containing of water, although it is significantly deeper than Great Bear.

When the ice sheet receded for the last time, it left a-long postglacial lake called Lake McConnell, of which Great Bear, Great Slave and Athabasca Lakes are remnants.

Perhaps the heaviest use of the watershed is in resource extraction – oil and gas in central Alberta, lumber in the Peace River headwaters, uranium in Saskatchewan, gold in the Great Slave Lake area and tungsten in the Yukon.

Canada's northernmost major railhead is located at the town of Hay River, on the south shore of Great Slave Lake.

Today CN owns approximately of track in 8 provinces ( the only two not served by CN are Newfoundland & Labrador and Prince Edward Island ), as well as a stretch of track into the Northwest Territories to Hay River on the southern shore of Great Slave Lake ; it is the northernmost rail line anywhere within the North American Rail Network, as far north as Anchorage, Alaska.

The agreement will cede a area between Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake in the NWT to Tłįchǫ ownership.

The Slavey ( also Slave or Hare ) are a First Nations aboriginal people of the Dene group, indigenous to the Great Slave Lake region, in Canada's Northwest Territories, and extending into northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta.

Bunbury was the author of several historical works of value, the most notable being his military memoirs Narratives of Some Passages in the Great War with France, first published in 1854.

He was noted for the anthology Great Slave Narratives.

The Great Auk had disappeared from Funk Island by 1800, and an account by Aaron Thomas of HMS Boston from 1794 described how the bird had been systematically slaughtered until then:

* 1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $ 2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.

" Nearly all railroads were using Krupp rails, the New York Central, Illinois Central, Delaware and Hudson, Maine Central, Lake Shore and Michigin Southern, Bangor and Aarostook, Great Northern, Boston and Albany, Florida and East Coast, Texas and Pacific, Southern pacific, and Mexican National.

* 1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.

* 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.

Two years later in Paris he repeated the proposal, listing the stone as one of several key items belonging to Egypt's cultural heritage, a list which also included the iconic bust of Nefertiti in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ; a statue of the Great Pyramid architect Hemiunu in the Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany ; the Dendara Temple Zodiac in the Louvre in Paris ; and the bust of Ankhhaf from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Perhaps the best summation of his career is in the biographical entry in Robert Charles Anderson's The Great Migration Begins ( NEHGS, Boston 1995 ): " Among the many remarkable lives lived by early New Englanders, Bachiler's is the most remarkable.

The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.

* The Boston Public Library is founded by an act of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts.

* November 9 – Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street ( the 2-day disaster destroys about of the city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and causes US $ 60 million in damage ).

* March 20 – The Great Fire of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings.

It is hard to determine how successful the Whirlwind was, as most of them were sold in Chicago and Boston, and it is likely that many were lost in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

* The Great Elm on Boston Common, supposed to have been in existence before the settlement of Boston, at the time of its destruction by the storm of the 15th of February 1876 measured.

Curtis ' comedies include Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), Sex and the Single Girl ( 1964 ) and The Great Race ( 1965 ), and his dramas included playing the slave Antoninus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus ( 1960 ) co-starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, The Outsider ( 1961 ), the true story of WW II veteran Ira Hayes, and The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), in which he played the self-confessed murderer of the film's title, Albert DeSalvo.

Over Great Western's protests, in May 1839 Parry accepted Cunard's tender of £ 55, 000 for a three-ship Liverpool – Halifax service with an extension to Boston and a supplementary service to Montreal.

* Great Blue Hill District ( includes the communities of Allston, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Brighton, Brookline, Dedham, Dorchester, Dover, Hyde Park, Islington, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Milton, Needham, Quincy, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury, Westwood )

Gleason Archer, Sr. ( 1880 – 1966 ), the founder and first president of Suffolk University in Boston, was born in Great Pond.

The territory covers 780, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, extending east and south from the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef, and including Heralds Beacon Island, Osprey Reef, the Willis Group, and fifteen other reef / island groups.

( 2008 ) I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases, Malaysia: Beacon Press, pp. 256, ISBN 978-0-8070-0036-6.

In his work on Jamgon Ju Mipham Gyatso's < i > Beacon of Certainty: Illuminating the View of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection < i >, John Pettit clarifies the various usages and implications of the term < i > Dzogchen < i > that are often conflated:

* Beacon Island – A small island in Great Sacandaga Lake north of Kunkel Point.

The name probably relates to the adjacent Great Barr, including Barr Beacon, the area's tallest peak.

It gives its name to nearby Great Barr ( the Beacon borders the Pheasey area of Great Barr ) and to the local school Barr Beacon Language College.

Barr Beacon was formerly owned by the Scott family of Great Barr Hall, nearby.

However, the name is also loosely applied to a swathe of the West Midlands bounded by junction 8 of the M6 motorway in the west, the Birmingham-Walsall railway line ( part of the former Grand Junction Railway, opened in 1837, and including Hamstead railway station, formerly called Great Barr station ) and Perry Barr to the south, Kingstanding to the east, and the open countryside of Barr Beacon to the north.

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Among those are the " Five Lotuses " and " Five Swords ", short and intermediate-length commentaries on the essence of wisdom and language ; the Beacon of Certainty which is perhaps the most essential of Mipham's original writings ; and in many of Mipham's liturgies ( such as those of Gesar ), his essays of practical advice ( gtams-tshogs ), his verses of praise to Manjushri, Sarasvati and other persons, historical or otherwise ( bstod-tshogs ), and in one of his most famous compositions which is an ' aspiration ' ( smon-lam ), Mipham makes clear — either explicitly or using coded language — the centrality of Dzogchen / Great Perfection to his view, meditation, practice and experiential realization.

* Dickinson, S ( 2002 ); The Beacon on the Bay: the discovery of an early Christian church and monastic site at Great Urswick, Low Furness, Cumbria, and the case for its connections with St. Ninian, St. Patrick, St. Hild and St. Columba.

Mipham's Beacon of Certainty: Illuminating the View of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection.