Other minor oceans were shrinking and eventually closed-Rheic Ocean ( closed by the assembly of South and North America ), the small, shallow Ural Ocean ( which was closed by the collision of Baltica and Siberia continents, creating the Ural Mountains ) and Proto-Tethys Ocean ( closed by North China collision with Siberia / Kazakhstania ).

However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.

They were issued at the rate of $ 16, 000 per mile of tracked grade completed West of the designated base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

The maps he made of the Columbia River basin east of the Cascade Mountains were of such high quality and detail that they continued to be regarded as authoritative well into the mid-20th century.

Within the heterogeneous Rouran Khaganate, the Göktürks lived north of the Altai Mountains for generations, they were engaged in metal-works.

Arches were raised to him throughout the Roman Empire ; in particular, arches recorded his deeds and death at Rome, Rhine River and Nur Mountains.

For most of the 20th century, the definitive editions ( specifically At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, The Dunwich Horror and Others, and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions ) of his prose fiction were published by Arkham House, a publisher originally started with the intent of publishing the work of Lovecraft, but which has since published a considerable amount of other literature as well.

This invasion was initially successful, coming close to the capital of the empire at Ctesiphon, however, they were defeated badly during the Persian counter-attack and retreated toward the Caucasus Mountains via the Derbend Pass.

Members of the expedition were to discover South Pass, through which hundreds of thousands of settlers on the Oregon, California and Mormon trails passed through the Rocky Mountains.

During the next 25 years, only two jaguars were documented in the United States, both killed: a large male shot in 1971 near the Santa Cruz River by two teenage duck hunters, and another male cornered by hounds in the Dos Cabezas Mountains in 1986.

Llamas were not always confined to South America ; abundant llama-like remains were found in Pleistocene deposits in the Rocky Mountains and in Central America.

While the Visigoths were invading, in 406 the Alans, Vandals, and Suevi crossed into Gaul ; over the next three years they spread across Gaul and in 409 crossed the Pyrenees Mountains into modern-day Spain.

The novellas " Mountains of Mourning ", " Labyrinth ", and " Borders of Infinity " were reprinted with an untitled framing story in which Miles reports to Simon Illyan, head of ImpSec.

While he, Meriwether Lewis and their men were crossing the Bitterroot Mountains they ran low of food, and Clark took six hunters and hurried ahead to hunt.

A majority of the surviving Nez Perce were finally forced to surrender on October 5, 1877 after the Battle of the Bear Paw Mountains in Montana only 40 miles from the Canadian border.

When the Province of Canada was formed, its borders were not entirely clear, and Ontario claimed to eventually reach all the way to the Rocky Mountains and Arctic Ocean.

While Hamilcar was able to obtain the resources for his aim, the Numidians in the Atlas Mountains were not conquered, like Hanno suggested, but became vassals of Carthage.

Beginning in 1991, red wolves were also released into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee.

In 1991, two pairs were reintroduced into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where the last known red wolf was killed in 1905.

At the battles of Thermopylae and Magnesia, Antiochus's forces were resoundingly defeated and he was compelled to make peace and sign the Treaty of Apamea in ( 188 BC ), the main clause of which saw the Seleucids agree to pay a large indemnity, retreat from Anatolia and to never again attempt to expand Seleucid territory west of the Taurus Mountains.

The most complicated borders were in the Al Hajar al Gharbi Mountains, where five of the emirates contested jurisdiction over more than a dozen enclaves.

The most prolific writers there were collectively referred to as the Five Great Masters of the Northern School ( 北派五大家 ) -- Huanzhu Louzhu ( 還珠樓主 ), who wrote The Swordspeople from Shu Mountains ( 蜀山剑侠传 )); Bai Yu, who wrote Twelve Coin Darts ( 十二钱镖 ); Wang Dulu, who wrote The Crane-Iron Pentalogy ( 鹤铁五部作 ); Zheng Zhengyin ( 郑证因 ), who wrote The King of Eagle Claws ( 鹰爪王 ); and Zhu Zhenmu ( 朱贞木 ), who wrote The Seven-Killing Stele ( 七杀碑 ).

Spain, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus Mountains still have virgin forest areas that are not only home to sizable deer populations but also for other animals that were once abundant such as the wisent, Eurasian lynx, Spanish lynx, wolves, and Brown bears.

It was the result of concerted action by Los Angeles-area businessmen and property owners who were concerned by the harm being done to the watershed of the San Gabriel Mountains by ranchers and miners.

For in At the Mountains of Madness we find the history of a conflict between two interstellar races ( among others ): the Elder Ones and the Cthulhu-spawn.

Coffee is mainly grown around the Blue Mountains and in hilly areas, where one type, Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, is considered among the best in the world because at those heights in the Blue Mountains, the cooler climate causes the berries to take longer to ripen and the beans develop more of the substances which on roasting give coffee its flavor.

Other examples have been found among cave art in northern India and on a dolmen shrine in the Nilgiri Mountains, but are difficult to date accurately.

Several subvarieties of oolong, including those produced in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, such as Da Hong Pao, are among the most famous Chinese teas.

* Early 11th century-Fan Kuan paints Travelers among Mountains and Streams.

* Missionary Juan Fonte establishes the first Jesuit mission among the Tarahumara, in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Northwest Mexico.

Though the official total area of the town is 11. 2 square miles, approximately 100 square miles of the surrounding Los Gatos Mountains ( within the Santa Cruz Mountains range ), has a Los Gatos address and uses the 95033 zip code ( primarily ) for U. S. Postal Service mail delivery ( among other purposes ).

Set among the Berkshire Mountains, Stockbridge is drained by the Housatonic River, which runs through the center of town.

Although The Metallak itself was never finished, its extensive plans are preserved among the architect's papers at the Maine Historical Society, making the ill-fated Colebrook hotel perhaps the most thoroughly documented design of its type in the White Mountains.

* 1607-Missionary Juan Fonte establishes the first Jesuit mission among the Tarahumara in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Northwest Mexico

* 1816-Barnabas Shaw opens the first Wesleyan mission in South Africa: Liliefontein, in the Khamiesberg Mountains ( Namaqualand ), among the Khoisan peoples in the northern Cape Colony.

His origins are obscure: in one strip it is said that his condor father threw him out of the nest in the Andes Mountains and that he grew up among humans, thereby acquiring his anthropomorphic characteristics ; however, such references are very rare, and Condorito is often portrayed as a regular guy living a very human life.

We shall have allies, not enemies, on the banks of the Columbia, and distant and desolate as are those tracts beyond the Rocky Mountains, even there may arise an opportunity for demanding and regaining our place among the nations.

They attracted a particularly strong following among local chapters of the Hells Angels and got a recurring gig at one of the bikers ' favorite venues, the Chateau Liberté in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and they continued playing the Chateau through the summer of 1975 ( although these concerts did not include all band members, and they were unannounced and of a completely impromptu nature ).

The Hazarajat lies in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i Baba Mountains and the western extremities of the Hindu Kush.

Precipitation levels in the area of the peak are among the highest in the Coast Mountains.

Mount Waddington is a popular destination among mountain climbers since it is the highest peak in the Coast Mountains and a challenging climb.

Though Skiing in Australia began in the northern Snowy Mountains in the 1860s, it was the construction of the vast Snowy Scheme from 1949, with its improvements to infrastructure and influx of experienced European skiers among the workers on the Scheme that really opened up the Mountains for the large scale development of a ski industry, and led to the establishment of Thredbo and Perisher as leading Australian resorts.

Will, Henry, and Beanpole have spent a year living among the free men in the White Mountains.

It is believed that some of the early Arabs also settled among the Pashtuns in the Sulaiman Mountains.

Wright ( who suffered from Parkinson's disease ) continued to publish stories by Lovecraft, Smith, and Quinn, though he was more selective than Baird ; he rejected Lovecraft's " At the Mountains of Madness ", " The Shadow Over Innsmouth " and ( initially ) " The Call of Cthulhu ", among other stories.

The Maya Mountains and foothills are among the oldest surface rock formations of Central America ; these Paleozoic sediments were uplifted about 200 million years ago in the late Carboniferous ( Pennsylvanian ) and early Permian periods.