The section of lower Broadway from its origin at Bowling Green to City Hall Park is the historical location for the city's ticker-tape parades, and is sometimes called the " Canyon of Heroes " during such events.

Canyon of Heroes is occasionally used to refer to the section of lower Broadway in the Financial District that is the location of the city's ticker-tape parades.

More than 200 black granite strips embedded in the sidewalks along the Canyon of Heroes list honorees of past ticker-tape parades.

The most recent parade in the Canyon of Heroes was on February 7, 2012 for the New York Giants in honor of their Super Bowl XLVI championship.

On February 5, 2008, the city, under mayor Michael Bloomberg, threw a ticker tape parade in honor of the Giants ' Super Bowl XLII victory at the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan.

Upon his resignation, he was given a ticker tape parade up Broadway's Canyon of Heroes in the borough of Manhattan.

Ten days after their release, the former hostages were given a ticker tape parade through the Canyon of Heroes in New York City.

Parades held are distinct from the ticker-tape parades held on the " Canyon of Heroes " on lower Broadway, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade held on Broadway from the Upper West Side downtown to Herald Square.

Bowling Green is the starting point of traditional ticker-tape parades on Broadway, where here it is also known as the Canyon of Heroes.

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The section of lower Broadway through the Financial District that serves as the parade route for these events is colloquially called the " Canyon of Heroes ".

Ticker tape parades are still held in New York City, specifically in the " Canyon of Heroes " in Manhattan, most often when local sports teams win a championship.

The route past the building is known colloquially as the Canyon of Heroes, in part because of the sheer verticality of the building and others around it.

* Richmond " Rocky " Canyon ( Joseph Motiki )-Rocky, an African American mountain climbing specialist, is the youngest member of the Rescue Heroes.

Like most of the other vertebrate fossils from the formation, Albertosaurus remains are found in deposits laid down in the deltas and floodplains of large rivers during the later half of Horseshoe Canyon times.

St. Helens started its growth in the Pleistocene 37, 600 years ago, during the Ape Canyon stage, with dacite and andesite eruptions of hot pumice and ash.

The second heaviest losses were during the U. S. Army's final offensive of the war, operation Dewey Canyon II ( Dewey Canyon II was an operation in support of the ARVN Lam San 719 Operation, in which the code 719 meant the year 1971 along Route 9 ), when the cavalry's remaining Sheridan Squadrons met near disaster on the Lao border during the early months of 1971, in particular the 1st Squadron of the 1st Cavalry Regt.

The great depth of the Grand Canyon and especially the height of its strata ( most of which formed below sea level ) can be attributed to 5, 000 to 10, 000 feet ( 1500 to 3000 m ) of uplift of the Colorado Plateau, starting about 65 million years ago ( during the Laramide Orogeny ).

Conditions in the Grand Canyon region are generally dry, but substantial precipitation occurs twice annually, during seasonal pattern shifts in winter ( when Pacific storms usually deliver widespread, moderate rain and high-elevation snow to the region from the west ) and in late summer ( due to the North American Monsoon, which delivers waves of moisture from the southeast, causing dramatic, localized thunderstorms fueled by the heat of the day ).

The cars were available during the summer months on both the Royal Gorge and the Black Canyon ( Shavano ) routes.

Fort Victoria became an important base during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in 1858, and the burgeoning town was incorporated as Victoria in 1862.

The Zebra River Canyon area of the Kubis platform in the deeply dissected Zaris Mountains of south western Namibia provides an extremely well exposed example of the thrombolite-stromatolite-metazoan reefs that developed during the Proterozoic period, the stromatolites here being better developed in updip locations under conditions of higher current velocities and greater sediment influx.

The mainland territory north of the 49th parallel remained unincorporated until 1858, when a mass influx of Americans and others during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush forced the hand of Colony of Vancouver Island's Governor James Douglas, who declared the mainland a Crown Colony, although official ratification of his unilateral action was several months in coming.

Whiteman recorded many jazz and pop standards during his career, including " Wang Wang Blues ", " Mississippi Mud ", " Rhapsody in Blue ", " Wonderful One ", " Hot Lips ", " Mississippi Suite ", and " Grand Canyon Suite ".

Unlike other cities in the area, Page was founded in 1957 as a housing community for workers and their families during the construction of nearby Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.

Because of the new roads and bridge built for use during construction, it has become the gateway to the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Lake Powell, attracting more than 3 million visitors per year.

The preeminent geologist, Waldemar Lindgren, during his 1900 visit to the gold belt of the Blue Mountains, estimated that no more than $ 16 million in gold had been recovered from Canyon Creek by then.

The city is named after John Long, a prominent miner who came to Grant County in 1862 during the Canyon City rush of that same year.

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom stayed in Big Horn in October 1984 during a visit with her close friends, Lord and Lady Carnarvon, ( née Jeanne Wallop ) at Senator and Mrs. Wallop's Canyon Ranch.

The Chinese first appeared in large numbers in the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1858 as part of the huge migration to that colony from California during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in the newly-declared Mainland Colony.

Isla Grande was renamed in honor of United States Air Force Major Fernando Luis Ribas-Dominicci, an F-111 pilot who was killed in action during Operation El Dorado Canyon ; the 1986 airstrike of Libya.

Palo Duro Canyon itself was downcut by the Prairie Dog Town Fork tributary of the Red River, during the Pleistocene, when the whole region was uplifted.

Most of the strata visible in the Canyon were deposited during the Permian and Triassic periods.

It was involved in numerous NATO maritime exercises, the U. S. Lebanese intervention of 1958, confrontation with the Soviets during the Yom Kippur War of 1973, clearance of the Suez Canal post 1973, several confrontations with Libya during the 1980s ( including Operation El Dorado Canyon ), and maintenance of task forces in the Adriatic during the wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

The ancient population centers such as Chaco Canyon ( outside Crownpoint, New Mexico ), Mesa Verde ( near Cortez, Colorado ), and Bandelier National Monument ( near Los Alamos, New Mexico ) for which the Ancestral Pueblo peoples are renowned, consisted of apartment-like complexes and structures made from stone, adobe mud, and other local material, or were carved into the sides of canyon walls.

In the Southwest, mountain ranges, rivers and, most obviously, the Grand Canyon can be significant barriers for human communities, likely reducing the frequency of contact with other groups.

* Largest Explosive Eruptions: New results for the 27. 8 Ma Fish Canyon Tuff and the La Garita caldera, San Juan volcanic field, Colorado

Quarrying granite ( actually quartz monzonite ) for the Salt Lake Temple in Little Cottonwood Canyon

Grand Canyon wins an Oscar for Best Documentary Short.

This derives from the Cornish name for the Seven Stones reef, on the reputed site of the lost land's capital and the site of the famous wreck of the Torrey Canyon.

In the 1960s, Altman lived for nine years with his second wife in Mandeville Canyon in Brentwood, California.

During the latter decades of the 20th century, extremely difficult cliffs were explored including some in Death Canyon, and by the mid-1990s, 800 different climbing routes had been documented for the various peaks and canyon cliffs.

In September 1540, under orders from the conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado to search for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola, Captain Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, along with Hopi guides and a small group of Spanish soldiers, traveled to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon between Desert View and Moran Point.

Afterwards, no Europeans visited the Canyon for over two hundred years.

Between 2003 and 2011, 2, 215 mining claims have been requested that are adjacent to the Canyon, including claims for uranium mines.

Gordon Chappell, Regional Historian for the Park Service, claims that this depot building is one of only three log-cabin-style train stations currently standing, out of fourteen ever built in the U. S. The depot is the northern terminus of the Grand Canyon Railway which begins in Williams, Arizona.

In 1990, amendments to the Clean Air Act established the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission ( GCVTC ) to advise the US EPA on strategies for protecting visual air quality on the Colorado Plateau.

Prescribed fires are typically conducted in the spring and fall in the forests adjacent to the Canyon to reduce the potential for severe forest fires and resulting smoke conditions.

Each year Grand Canyon National Park receives approximately 30, 000 requests for backcountry permits.

Tourists wishing for a more vertical perspective can board helicopters and small airplanes in Las Vegas, Phoenix and Grand Canyon National Park Airport ( seven miles from the South Rim ) for canyon flyovers.

Guano Point-a popular vantage point for tourists, situated on the West Rim of the Grand Canyon

Archaeological surveys of Bryce Canyon National Park and the Paunsaugunt Plateau show that people have been in the area for at least 10, 000 years.

The USS Bryce Canyon was named for the park and served as a supply and repair ship in the U. S. Pacific Fleet from September 15, 1950, to June 30, 1981.

From Eleven Mile Canyon, the South Platte runs northeast to Cheesman Reservoir, named for Denver water pioneer Walter S. Cheesman.

The ghost town of Diablo Canyon for which the meteorite is formally named is on the canyon just to the north and out of the picture.