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Pacific and Northwest
Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest, or otherwise a good sloe tree, or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom, preferably one with male or staminate catkins.
Airmail was used for the addresses outside the Pacific Northwest.
Each letter contained a postage-prepaid return envelope by regular mail for addresses in the Pacific Northwest, and by airmail for those outside the Pacific Northwest.
I have the whole Pacific Northwest ''.
* 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U. S. settlement on the Pacific coast.
* Bigfoot also known as sasquatch, is the name given to an ape-like creature that cryptozoologists believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
The region is closely connected to Seattle and the American Pacific Northwest economically and culturally.
Category: Pacific Northwest
As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.
The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest.
British Columbia is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, by the U. S. state of Alaska on the northwest as well as parts of the west, on the north by the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, on the east by the province of Alberta, and on the south by the U. S. states of Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
Bigfoot, also known as sasquatch, is the name given to an ape-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
Wildmen stories are found among the indigenous population of the Pacific Northwest.
In addition to the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes region and the Southeastern United States have had many reports of Bigfoot sightings.
About a third of all reports of Bigfoot sightings are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, with most of the remaining reports spread throughout the rest of North America .< ref name =" Car08_p118 ">< span id =" Car08 "></ span ></ ref > Some Bigfoot advocates, such as John Willison Green, have postulated that Bigfoot is a worldwide phenomenon.
The Meganthropus fossils originated from Asia, the tooth was found in the Pacific Northwest.
For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.
Then in 1947 he opened the Wills Point nightclub in Sacramento and continued touring the Southwest and Pacific Northwest from Texas to Washington State.
Also in 1994, United States Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt first proposed the removal of several Pacific Northwest dams because of their impact on salmon spawning.
For instance, an areal feature of the Pacific Northwest coast is that historical * has become palatalized in many languages, so that Saanich for example has and but no plain ; similarly, historical * in the Northwest Caucasian languages became palatalized to in Ubykh and in most Circassian dialects.

Pacific and 1841
On January 3, 1841, he sailed from Fairhaven, Massachusetts on the whaler Acushnet, which was bound for the Pacific Ocean.
On January 5, 1841, a British Admiralty team in the Erebus and the Terror, three-masted ships with specially strengthened wooden hulls, was going through the pack ice of the Pacific near Antarctica in an attempt to determine the position of the South Magnetic Pole.
The way of life of the Pomo changed with the arrival of Russians at Fort Ross ( 1812 to 1841 ) on the Pacific coastline, and Spanish missionaries and European-American colonists coming in from the south and east.
They were built and installed along the coastlines of the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean in 1841.
The nominate subspecies D. n. nigrescens occurs on the Pacific coastal region from British Columbia to northern California, while D. n. halseii, described by Giraud in 1841, occupies the remainder of its range.
Wadsworth was Commodore commanding the Pacific Squadron from 1834 to 1836, a member of the Board of Navy Commissioners from 1837 to 1840, and Inspector of Ordnance from 1841 to 1850.
The expedition then headed back out into the Pacific, including a visit to Wake Island in 1841, and returned by way of the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, Borneo, Singapore, Polynesia and the Cape of Good Hope, reaching New York on June 10, 1842.
Edmund Fanning ( July 16, 1769 – April 23, 1841 ) was an American explorer and sea captain, known as the " Pathfinder of the Pacific.
He sailed the Pacific Squadron in " Old Ironsides ," until he was relieved in 1841.
* Masterman Ready, or the Wreck in the Pacific ( Frederick Marryat, 1841 )
At age twelve he started working in a commercial fishing fleet based on Cape Cod and at nineteen he signed on for a three-year voyage on a whaler headed for the South Pacific ; it was the same year ( 1841 ) that Herman Melville shipped out of the same port bound for the same whaling grounds.

Pacific and Map
Map of the central Pacific Ocean showing Howland Island and nearby Baker Island just north of the Equator and east of Tarawa.
Map of the central Pacific Ocean showing Jarvis and neighboring islands.
Map showing the travel time of the tsunami across the Pacific ocean | Pacific and beyond.
Map of North America's political divide during the 17th century, showing forts, towns and areas occupied by European settlements: Britain ( pink ), France ( blue ), and Spanish claims ( orange ; California, Pacific Northwest, and Great Basin not indicated )
* General Map of the North Pacific States and Territories Belonging to the United States and of British Columbia, Extending from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean, 1865.
Gitzen claims the “ Neahkahnie Mountain Survey ,” the Hondius Map, the Nehalem Indians and the Three Arch Rocks prove Drake ’ s landing site was in Nehalem Bay Oregon as well as the Indian culture of the Pacific Northwest.
Map of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1961
Map of the route of the Pacific Intertie transmission route and stations
Map showing United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific members
Map showing the locations of the battles between Pacific islanders and Americans during the Wilkes Expedition.
Map of Pacific Theater
* Map of Denver Pacific lines ( PDF )
Image: Pacific War-Malaya 1941-42-Map. jpg | Map of the Malayan Campaign
alt = Map showing paths of tropical cyclones that formed in the northeastern Pacific Ocean in 2004
* Village Map, Pacific Daily News

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