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He returns and weds Felice but soon, full of remorse for his violent past, he leaves on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land ; later he returns privately and lives out his long life as a hermit ( according to local legend in a cave overlooking the River Avon, situated at Guys Cliffe ).
* Bulkeley Hill — Land area overlooking the Northeast Gate.
He floats overlooking things, and finally awakes alive in the " real " world, never forgetting his experiences in Fairy Land.
While the two were traveling in the Holy Land overlooking the village of Bethany from the Mount of Olives in 1901-02, they decided to name the new Bible institute Bethany.
Land was acquired on Beacon Street overlooking the Old Granary Burying Ground, and the cornerstone was laid in 1847.
Charcot Island or Charcot Land is an island Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System, long and wide, which is ice covered except for prominent mountains overlooking the north coast, west of Alexander Island, and about north of Latady Island.

Land and Ship
* Ship Cone, a conical peak 1 mile ( 1. 6 km ) south of Townrow Peak on the Tilman Ridge in Allan Hills, Victoria Land
William the Aetheling having perished in the wreck of the White Ship ( 25 November 1120 ), Fulk, on his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land ( 1120 – 1121 ), married his second daughter Sibyl, at the instigation of Louis VI, to William Clito, son of Robert Curthose, and a claimant to the duchy of Normandy, giving her Maine for a dowry ( 1122 or 1123 ).
Bartholomew chose Rainhill as his first stage and he developed facilities on the Land alongside the Ship Inn ( originally the New Inn by Henry Parr 1780 ) and on this site he was believed to be stabling at least 240 horses, coach horses, farriers, coach builders and veterinaries.
* Ship launched, Land attack variant ( operational )
The Ship landed in Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land on 9 December 1836.

Land and Creek
* Davis, Miriam ( 2008 ), Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land, Walnut Creek ( CA ), Left Coast Press, 304 pp.
After driving the route in a Land Rover and establishing food depots along the way, he set out from Halls Creek on 12 July 1976 with three other bushwalkers, Ralph Barraclough, Kathy Borman and Rex Shaw.
Land rises in both directions quite rapidly from Schoharie Creek in the middle of the county.
Land speculators and squatters began to defraud Creeks out of their allotments, and violence broke out, leading to the so-called " Creek War of 1836 ".
He followed Jim Jim Creek down from the Arnhem Land escarpment, then went down the South Alligator before crossing to the East Alligator and proceeding north.
The village has raised legal concerns over the project that include an alleged failure by the federal Bureau of Land Management to provide adequate public notice and public comment periods regarding the Boulder Creek mine project.
The area that is now lower Oak Creek was more or less on the border of the area occupied by the Dil-ze ' e Chein-chii-ii ( or Red Rock Clan ) and Yaa-go-gain ( White Land Clan ) The US army gathered the Yavapai and Apache people in the area and in 1875 removed them in a tragic and brutal march and exile to the San Carlos Reservation in Eastern Arizona, but many Dilze ' e remained in hiding in the Lower Oak Creek and adjoining White Hills area As late as 1876, numerous Dil-ze ' e still lived on or near Lower Oak Creek.
" Whereas, there is a certaine parcel of land situated on the West side of Delaware Bay the which hath been certified by the Court at the Horekill and laide out for William Burton the saide Land being called the Long Neck lying on the South side of Rehoboth Bay and on the North side of the Greate River beginning at a point of woods and running West up the Greate River one thousand perches to a White Oak at the head of a small creek called Indian Cabin Creek and from thence North three hundred and fifty perches to a White Oak standing by a creek side called Middle Creek with a line of marked trees and from thence bounder upon the aforesaid Bay to the first bounded point Southeast one thousand perches containing One Thousand Acres of Land.
William Sr. and his brother Thomas Whiteside migrated to the South Fork of Mechum ’ s Creek in Goochland County, which later became Albermarle County, Virginia. The property belonging to the Whitesides was adjoined by the Stocton Land.
Pond Creek was settled as a town during the Cherokee Strip Land Run in 1893, the largest land run ever held.
Thomas Creek, which flows through the city, was named for Frederick Thomas, who obtained a Donation Land Claim and settled on the banks of the creek in 1846.
Land adjacent to Stoney Creek in Ridley Township has been identified as a Native American town site.
A number of thrillers and horror films dubbed " outback gothic " have been created, including Wake in Fright, Walkabout, The Cars That Ate Paris and Picnic at Hanging Rock in the 1970s, Razorback and Shame in the 1980s, and Japanese Story, The Proposition " Van Diemen's Land and the world-renowned Wolf Creek in the 21st century.
It also adds or gives names to implied locations within Barrie's original Neverland, such as Never Land Plains, where the Indians reside, Skull Rock, where the " pirates are said to hide their booty " and Crocodile Creek, a swamp environ where the Crocodile lives.
Box Hill was first settled by the squatter Arundel Wrighte, formerly of Van Diemen's Land, who in 1838 took up a pastoral lease on the land he had previously explored in the Bushy Creek area.
In 2008 June The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land announced they reached an agreement to purchase approximately of western Montana forestland from Plum Creek Timber Company ( NYSE: PCL ) for $ 510 million.
This condition is recognized by the United States Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ), which is currently considering the lower portion of Cow Creek for wilderness status.
According to an environmental group, the Native Forest Network ( NFN ), if approved by the Land Use Regulation Commission, Plum Creek ’ s plan would increase Maine ’ s total carbon emissions by nearly 8 %.
Batman's Treaty negotiations with Aborigines took place in June 1835 on the banks of the Merri Creek in present-day Northcote, Victoria ( in Melbourne ), "... using legal advice from the former Van Dieman's Land attorney-general, Joseph Gellibrand, and with the support of his Aboriginal companions from New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land.

Land and valley
The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.
The reaches of the upper Petitcodiac River valley then came under the control of the Philadelphia Land Company and in 1766 Pennsylvania Dutch settlers arrived to re-establish the pre-existing farming community at Le Coude.
on the borders of the valley ( generally adjacent to National Forest Lands ) are managed by the Bureau of Land Management, BLM, a division of the United States Department of the Interior.
* Attikamekw are inhabitants of the area they refer to as Nitaskinan ( Our Land ), in the upper St. Maurice River valley of Quebec ( about 300 km north of Montreal ).
In 1880, Canadian-born entrepreneur Alexander Arthur ( 1846 – 1912 ), representing the Scottish Carolina Timber and Land Company, arrived in Newport with ambitious plans to log the Pigeon valley.
Early in 1903 they joined with the Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners in urging the federal government to step in and help with irrigation development in the valley.
The Sauerland is part of the Rhine Massif ( Rheinisches Schiefergebirge ) including ' Bergisches Land ', Westerwald, Siegerland, and, separated by the Rhine valley, the Eifel, Hohes Venn and Hunsrück.
The district form the western part of the Bergisches Land, where the hills of the Sauerland descend into the Rhine valley.
Further west the Sieg valley forms the boundary of the Bergisches Land ( northern ) and Westerwald ( southern ).
As late as September 1825, Maine and Massachusetts Land Agents issued deeds, sold timber permits, took censuses, and recorded births, deaths, and marriages in the contested area of the Saint John River valley and its tributaries.
The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.
The valley together with the surrounding mountains is called the Werdenfelser Land.
In the body of the work, we hear that he had been at Paris and Constantinople ; had served the Sultan of Egypt a long time in his wars against the Bedouin, had been vainly offered by him a princely marriage and a great estate on condition of renouncing Christianity, and had left Egypt under Sultan Melech Madabron ( al-Muzaffar Sayf-ad-Din Hajji I who reigned in 1346-1347 ); had been at Mount Sinai, and had visited the Holy Land with letters under the great seal of the sultan, which gave him extraordinary facilities ; had been in Russia, Livonia, Kraków, Lithuania, " en roialme daresten " ( Dristra or Silistra in Bulgaria ), and many other parts near Tartary, but not in Tartary itself ; had drunk of the Well of Youth at Polombe ( Quilon on the Malabar coast ), and still seemed to feel the better ; had taken astronomical observations on the way to Lamory ( Sumatra ), as well as in Brabant, Germany, Bohemia and still farther north ; had been at an isle called Pathen in the Indian Ocean ; had been at Cansay ( Hangchow-fu ) in China, and had served the emperor of China fifteen months against the king of Mann ; had been among rocks of adamant in the Indian Ocean ; had been through a haunted valley, which he places near " Milstorak " ( i. e. Malasgird in Armenia ); had been driven home against his will in 1357 by arthritic gout ; and had written his book as a consolation for his " wretched rest ".
The Sierra Nevada casts the valley in a rain shadow, which makes Owens Valley " the Land of Little Rain.
The highest elevation with 475 m above sea level is in the south of the district, the lowest with 118 m is in the Saale valley at the boundary to the district Weimarer Land.
The view from the summit provides a panorama of the Holy Land and, to the north, a more limited one of the valley of the River Jordan.
During the Middle Ages the valley was part of Tir Iarll ( the Earl's Land ), an area " famous for its game coverts, its woods and sparkling streams " that was set aside as a hunting reserve by Robert Fitzhamon, Earl of Gloucester, the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan.
Mesopotamia (" The Land of Two Rivers ") is considered to begin more or less near the modern border with Iraq and refers to the flat valley of the southern Tigris and Euphrates rivers and their tributaries.
A flood of white settlers began to arrive in the valley after the Donation Land Act, which allocated 320 acres ( 2. 6 km² ) of land to each married couple.
It lies in the Székely Land, an ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania, and is situated in the Olt River valley.
Other hypotheses identify Catanzaro's development to have grown from various settlements scattered in the area of Catanzaro, Marina, Tiriolo ( formerly Teure ), Santa Maria di Catanzaro, and on the hill Trivonà ( Trischines, along the valley of Corach which formed the old " Land of Feaco ").
The Priestley Glacier is a major valley glacier, about 96 km ( 60 mi ) long, originating at the edge of the polar plateau of Victoria Land.

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