In spite of the disaster, Wright completed during this period plans for the Lake Tahoe resort, in which he suggested the shapes of American Indian tepees -- a project of great and appropriate charm, that came to nothing.

`` We're all going over to Lake Tahoe and try our luck at Cal-Neva '', Buzz explained, still instigating.

With the consolidation, the city limits today extend west across the Sierra Nevada to the California state line in the middle of Lake Tahoe.

Carson City was in the national news on September 2nd, 2011, when an employee of a family business in South Lake Tahoe opened fire at an IHOP restaurant on the south side of Carson City, killing four people and wounding several others before the shooter turned the gun on himself.

Secret Harbor Beach, Lake Tahoe

* Lake Tahoe beachfront ( three beaches along Lake Tahoe lie within the city limits )

Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains lie on the western edge.

This line begins in Lake Tahoe nearly offshore ( in the direction of the boundary ), and continues to the Colorado River where the Nevada, California, and Arizona boundaries merge southwest of the Laughlin Bridge.

Bono died on January 5, 1998 of injuries sustained when he hit a tree while skiing on the Nevada side of Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe, California.

In 2008 and 2009, wolverines were sighted as far south as the Sierra Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, for the first time since 1922.

** Frank Sinatra Jr. is kidnapped at Harrah's Lake Tahoe.

Man skiing slope overlooking Lake Tahoe

It crossed the Great Basin, the Utah-Nevada Desert, and the Sierra Nevada near Lake Tahoe before arriving in Sacramento.

Relief map of Mono Lake and surrounding area, including nearby Lake Tahoe and Yosemite National Park ( area within yellow boundaries ); California-Nevada state border shown

* Boreal Mountain Resort, a ski resort in the Lake Tahoe area of California

It also contains redwood forests, along with the Sierra Nevada including Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta ( the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range after Mount Rainier in Washington ), and the northern half of the Central Valley, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions.

The large, deep freshwater Lake Tahoe lies to the North of Yosemite.

Neri shoots Fredo while they are fishing on Lake Tahoe.

The Lake Tahoe house and grounds portrayed in the film are Fleur du Lac, the summer estate of Henry J. Kaiser on the California side of the lake.

In the unique Lake Tahoe area of the county, environmental awareness and environmental protection initiatives have grown along with the population since the 1960 Winter Olympics, hosted at Squaw Valley Ski Resort in neighboring Placer County.

* 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.

* 1987 – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.

* 1959 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7. 5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.

* 1999 – Tristan Lake Leabu, American actor

* 1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1, 800 people within a 20-kilometer range.

* 1885 – Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories, Canada, killing 9.

* 1939 – Anthony Lake, American political figure

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

* 1956 – The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.

* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

* 1905 – Arthur Lake, American actor ( d. 1987 )

* 1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.

* 1242 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.

* 1890 – Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.

Nestorian graves dating to 1338 – 9 near Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgizstan have inscriptions referring to plague and are thought by many epidemiologists to mark the outbreak of the epidemic, from which it could easily have spread to China and India.

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

* WUPS ( 98. 5 FM, Houghton Lake ) – classic hits

The city lies beside huge freshwater Lake Michigan, and two rivers — the Chicago River in downtown and the Calumet River in the industrial far South Side – flow entirely or partially through Chicago.

* Washoe Lake State Park – borders city to the north

* National Road No. 2, Kisangani-Bukavu – Goma, connecting the principal waterway systems of the country, namely Kinshasa-Kisangani on the Congo River and the Lake Kivu and Lake Tanganyika systems on the eastern edge of the country.

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* 2005 – The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.