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The Dent Blanche has four steep faces rising over four glaciers: The north-east face ( also called north face ) rises above the Grand Cornier Glacier ( part of the Zinal Glacier ), the south-east face rises above the Schönbiel Glacier ( part of the Zmutt Glacier ), the south-west face rises above the Manzettes Glacier ( part of the Ferpècle Glacier ) and, finally, the north-west face of Dent Blanche rises above the homonym glacier.
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* 1862 – First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
* July 18 – First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
But, though it rises in a number of lofty peaks, such as the Mont Vélan ( 3, 727 m ), the Matterhorn ( 4, 478 m ), the Lyskamm ( 4, 527 m ), the Nord End of Monte Rosa ( 4, 575 m ), and the Weissmies ( 4, 023 m ), many of the highest points of the region, such as the Grand Combin ( 4, 314 m ), the Dent Blanche ( 4, 357 m ), the Weisshorn ( 4, 505 m ), the true summit or Dufourspitze ( 4, 634 m ) of Monte Rosa itself, and the Dom ( 4, 545 m ), all rise on its northern slope and not on the main chain.
* Dent Blanche, Gross Fiescherhorn, Monte Disgrazia, Täschhorn ( 1862 )
The rocks of the Austroalpine nappes form most of the outcrops in the Eastern Alps, while in the west these nappes are, with the exception of a few places ( the Dent Blanche and Sesia units ), eroded away.
The Matterhorn and Dent d ' Hérens seen from Tête Blanche.
Apart from the base of the mountain, the Matterhorn is composed of gneiss belonging to the Dent Blanche klippe, an isolated part of the Austroalpine nappes, lying over the Penninic nappes.
From 3, 400 metres to the top, the rocks are gneisses from the Dent Blanche nappe ( Austroalpine nappes ).
Other mountains in the region ( Weisshorn, Zinalrothorn, Dent Blanche, Mont Collon ) also belong to the Dent Blanche nappe.
The Dent Blanche is a mountain in the Pennine Alps, lying in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
The nearby north face of the Dent d ' Hérens is glaciated while the Dent Blanche holds much less snow, it was even called Dent Noire ( Black Tooth ) on the Woerl Atlas of 1842.
In fact on older maps, in the area where lie both summits, only the name Weisszahnhorn ( from German: White Tooth Peak ) was indicated, the French name ( Dent Blanche ) appearing in 1820 only.
Because cartographers usually made their observations far away from the mountainous remote areas and also because the Dent d ' Hérens is sometime hidden behind the Dent Blanche thus less visible, the latter received the name.
The inabitants of the lower Val d ' Hérens called the actual Dent d ' Hérens, Dent Blanche, but the ones of the upper Val d ' Hérens called the mountain, Dent de Rong or Dent d ' Erins, contributing to the general confusion.
Dent Blanche rising above the Val d ' Hérens ( right )
The summit of Dent Blanche is an important geographic place as it is the converging point of three ridges.
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Arthur Dent has hitch-hiked through the galaxy and is dropped off on a planet in a rainstorm.
Dent County has had its ups and downs economically, but is proud of its record of having five banks during the Great Depression without a failure.
In the Doctor Who episode, " The Christmas Invasion ", the Tenth Doctor, saving the world in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, compares himself to Arthur Dent, whom he describes as a " nice man ", possibly suggesting that the Doctor has at some point inhabited the same universe as the characters in the Hitchhiker's Guide.
Sergeant has been a guest in Countdowns Dictionary Corner with Susie Dent.
One contractor had to give up as a result of underestimating the terrain and the weather — Dent Head has almost four times the rainfall of London.
The Matterhorn has a pyramidal shape with four faces facing the four compass points: the north and east faces overlook, respectively, the Zmutt valley and Gornergrat ridge in Switzerland, the south face ( the only one south of the Swiss-Italian border ) fronts the resort town of Breuil-Cervinia, and the west face looks towards the mountain of Dent d ' Hérens which straddles the border.
Copeland currently lives in Los Angeles with his second wife, Fiona Dent, with whom he has three daughters ( Eve, Grace and Celeste ).
The Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy where the Guide has supplanted the Encyclopedia Galactica among its more relaxed civilisations, and where in Arthur Dent heads for " wisdom and truth were to be found " and goes to Hawalius.
Since his death, Lester Dent has lived on in reprints and new stories discovered and marketed by his literary agent, Will Murray.
Black Dog Books has released the first three volumes of The Lester Dent Library.
Foley has Bogomil's daughter Jan use her connections as an insurance agent to find out about Dent's financial dealings: Dent is robbing his own businesses on purpose in order to finance firearms deals and is discreetly using his henchman Charles Cain ( Dean Stockwell ) as the front man for his operations.
Dent writes an economic newsletter that reviews the economy in the US and around the world through demographic trends focusing on predictable consumer spending patterns, as well as financial markets, and has written seven books, of which two recent ones have been bestsellers:
Dent has been criticized also by many economists for being downright wrong in several of his predictions.
The statute has long been considered a key moment in patent law ; Chris Dent, writing in the Melbourne University Law Review, identifies it as " a significant marker in the history of patents " with continuing importance, although it is neither the start nor end of patent law.
With Harvey Dent and Lt. James Gordon needing Lau in order to find where he has hidden the mob's money, Bruce makes a trip to Hong Kong and Fox accompanies him to make it look like they've only gone there to cancel the negotiations with Lau's investment company.
At the end of the radio series ( and television series, as well as ) Arthur Dent, having escaped the Earth's destruction, potentially has some of the computational matrix in his brain.
Dent is married to Pamela Dent and has three children.
Dent has appeared on Countdown since 1992, having made over 2, 000 appearances ; however, it was only in 2003 ( series 49 ) that she took on her role full-time.
The ordeal has achieved legendary status and has become the subject of a 2001 book The Junction Boys by Jim Dent and a television movie produced by ESPN.
Since 2004, Susie Dent, an English lexicographer has published a column, " A Word a Year ", in which she chooses a single word from each of the last 101 years to represent preoccupations of the time.
Hyde berates Two-Face, proud he has abandoned his past as Zabo and insults Two-Face for hanging onto his Harvey Dent side, as well as using a coin to decide between right and wrong.
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He and Julia had four children: Frederick Dent Grant ; Ulysses S. " Buck " Grant, Jr .; Ellen Wrenshall " Nellie " Grant ; and Jesse Root Grant.
In the late 19th century the Dent company marketed a further development of the zinc gridiron in which the four outer rods were replaced by two concentric tubes which were linked by a tubular nut which could be screwed up and down to alter the degree of compensation.
However, he won the Australian Open, defeating Phil Dent in four sets.
Dent batted. 417 in the 1978 World Series, earning Series Most Valuable Player honors as the Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, four games to two.
Dent won a re-election against Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan with 54 % of the vote, the smallest percent of the vote he received in his four elections.
Dent died four days later in hospital from his injuries.
In 1880, soon after the death of George Brown, founder of the Globe, Dent severed his connection with that paper and began his first ambitious undertaking, The Canadian Portrait Gallery ( 1880 ), which ran to four large volumes.
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