Chamonix

2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, or more commonly, Chamonix is a town and commune in eastern France, in the Haute-Savoie département, at the foot of Mont Blanc. Chamonix - Geography. Chamonix-Mont-Blanc is located at 45°55′8″N, 6°51′55″EIncluding:

• Chamonix - Geography
• Chamonix - Mountain sports
• Chamonix - History
• Chamonix - Sightseeing
• Chamonix - Miscellaneous

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Chamonix is a popular winter sports resort in France with one of the best skiing runs in the world. The 1924 Winter Olympics were held here. As the highest European mountain west of Russia, Mont Blanc holds a special allure for mountain climbers, and Jon Krakauer, in an essay in his collection Eiger Dreams, described the town as "the death-sport capital of the world." This refers to the fact, that Chamonix serves as an ideal playground for almost all types of outdoor activity, especially in their more extreme variants like ice climbing, rock climbing, extr ...

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Chamonix, Chamonix - Geography, Chamonix - Mountain sports, Chamonix - History, Chamonix - Sightseeing, Chamonix - Miscellaneous

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The following automobile manufacturers produce or have produced automobiles. Note that these are automobile makers rather than individual types. Some of these have never been independent companies but are sub-brands established by a parent company. See also Automobile_Manufacturer_Logos List of automobile manufacturers - Argentina. Andino Lists of companies List of automobile manufacturers - Armenia.

 - Ranked  - Density The Aosta Valley (in French: Vallée d'Aoste, Italian: Valle d'Aosta) is a mountainous region in north-western Italy. It is bordered by France to the west, Switzerland to the north and the region of Piedmont to the south. The region has a special autonomous status and forms one of the Provinces of Italy. The regional capital is Aosta-Aoste. < ...

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• Aosta Valley - History
• Aosta Valley - List of municipalities

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A disaster (from Latin meaning, "bad star") is the impact of a natural or man-made event that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry often resulting in permanent changes to human societies, ecosystems and environment. (It may be noted that event itself is not a disaster, it is the impact which is called disaster.) Disasters manifest as hazards exacerbating vulnerable conditions and exceeding individuals' and communities' means to survive and thrive. Most events included herein are compiled from United States Federal Emergency Management Age ...

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• Disaster - Natural disasters
• Disaster - Avalanche
• Disaster - Cold
• Disaster - Disease
• Disaster - Drought
• Disaster - Earthquake
• Disaster - Famine
• Disaster - Fire
• Disaster - Flood
• Disaster - Hail
• Disaster - Heat
• Disaster - Hurricane
• Disaster - Impact event
• Disaster - Limnic eruption
• Disaster - Landslide
• Disaster - Mudslide
• Disaster - Sink hole
• Disaster - Solar flare
• Disaster - Storm surge
• Disaster - Thunderstorm
• Disaster - Tornado
• Disaster - Tsunami
• Disaster - Volcanic eruption
• Disaster - Waterspout
• Disaster - Winter storm
• Disaster - Man-made disasters
• Disaster - Aviation
• Disaster - Arson
• Disaster - CBRNs
• Disaster - Civil disorder
• Disaster - Crime
• Disaster - Data loss
• Disaster - Dam failure
• Disaster - Hazardous materials
• Disaster - Processing interruption
• Disaster - Liquidity shortage
• Disaster - Power outage
• Disaster - Public relations crisis
• Disaster - Radiation Contamination
• Disaster - Space Disasters
• Disaster - Telecommunication outage
• Disaster - Terrorism
• Disaster - War
• Disaster - Surviving a disaster
• Disaster - Personal and family disaster preparation
• Disaster - Local government and emergency services disaster preparation and management
• Disaster - Business disaster preparation and management
• Disaster - National disaster preparation
• Disaster - Humanitarian disaster preparation
• Disaster - Information security disaster preparation

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An avalanche is a slide of a large snow (or rock) mass down a mountainside, caused when a buildup of snow is released down a slope, and is one of the major dangers faced in the mountains in winter. An avalanche is an example of a gravity current consisting of granular material. In an avalanche, lots of material or mixtures of different types of material fall or slide rapidly under the force of gravity. Avalanches are often classified by what they are made of, for example snow, ice, rock or soil avalanches. A mixt ...

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• Avalanche - Causes
• Avalanche - Contributing factors
• Avalanche - Terrain
• Avalanche - Snow
• Avalanche - Weather
• Avalanche - Avalanche avoidance
• Avalanche - The group
• Avalanche - Human survival and avalanche rescue
• Avalanche - Search and rescue equipment
• Avalanche - Witnesses as rescuers
• Avalanche - Victims
• Avalanche - European avalanche risk table
• Avalanche - United States Avalanche Danger Scale

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Zermatt is a village located (46°1′N 7°45′E) at the northern base of the Matterhorn in the German-speaking and predominately Roman Catholic section of the Valais canton in southern Switzerland. It is 62 km southeast of Gstaad, and only about 10 km from the border with Italy. Zermatt has a permanent population of around 4,000 people, although the actual population varies considerably through the seasons as tourists come and go. The village is situated at the end of a south-facing valley, at an altitude of 1620m (5315 ft). ...

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1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1924 - Events. 1924 - January. January 7 - Great fire in London harbour January 8 - Heavy blizzards in England January 10 - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel - 43 dead. January 12 - Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart - he is arrested so ...

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• 1924 - January
• 1924 - February
• 1924 - March
• 1924 - April
• 1924 - May
• 1924 - June
• 1924 - August-October
• 1924 - November
• 1924 - December
• 1924 - Unknown date
• 1924 - Births
• 1924 - January-February
• 1924 - March-May
• 1924 - June-August
• 1924 - September-October
• 1924 - November-December
• 1924 - Deaths
• 1924 - Nobel Prizes

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The Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics for short but more correctly The Olympic Winter Games, are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games. They feature winter sports held on ice or snow, such as ice skating and skiing. The Winter Olympics are held every four years. Most recently, the 2002 Games were held in Salt Lake City, United States. The Italian city of Turin (Torino) will host the next Winter Olympics in 2006, and after that the games will be held in Vancouver, Canada in 2010. Including:

• Winter Olympic Games - History
• Winter Olympic Games - Prelude
• Winter Olympic Games - 1924 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1928 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1932 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1936 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - World War II
• Winter Olympic Games - 1948 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1952 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1956 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1960 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1964 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1968 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1972 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1976 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1980 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1984 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1988 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1992 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1994 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 1998 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - 2002 Winter Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - Future Olympics
• Winter Olympic Games - Statistics
• Winter Olympic Games - Games overview
• Winter Olympic Games - All-time Winter Olympic medal table
• Winter Olympic Games - Top ten athletes
• Winter Olympic Games - Sports
• Winter Olympic Games - Current sports
• Winter Olympic Games - Discontinued sports
• Winter Olympic Games - Demonstration sports
• Winter Olympic Games - Bibliography

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January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining (341 in leap years). January 25 - Events. 41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the Senate. 1327 - Edward III becomes King of England. 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. 1554 - Foundation of São Paulo city, Brazil. 1755 - Moscow Uni ...

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• January 25 - Holidays and observances

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Professor John Tyndall and Whymper emulated each other in fruitless attempts to reach the summit of the Matterhorn by the south-western, or Italian, ridge. Whymper, who had failed six times already, was determined to try the eastern face, convinced that its precipitous appearance when viewed from Zermatt was an optical illusion, and that the dip of the strata, which on the Italian side formed a continuous series of overhangs, should make the opposite side a natural staircase. His attempt by what is now the normal route met with success on Ju ...

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Edward Whymper, Edward Whymper - Early life, Edward Whymper - The Matterhorn, Edward Whymper - Exploration in Greenland, Edward Whymper - South American exploration, Edward Whymper - Canadian Rockies

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The season's BWCHs takes place during February or March. Some years it has been necessary to schedule parts of the Championships at other than the main venue because of weather and/or snow conditions. Full, joint BWCHs have never been held in Olympic Winter Games seasons. BWCHs in non-IOC events, however, have been held in Olympic seasons. In 2005, the then new event of Mixed Relay (two legs done by women, two legs by men) was arrange ...

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Biathlon World Championships, Biathlon World Championships - BWCH venues, Biathlon World Championships - Men, Biathlon World Championships - Sprint 10 km, Biathlon World Championships - Pursuit 12.5 km, Biathlon World Championships - Mass start 15 km, Biathlon World Championships - Individual 20 km, Biathlon World Championships - Relay 4 × 7.5 km, Biathlon World Championships - Team, Biathlon World Championships - Women, Biathlon World Championships - Sprint 7.5 km, Biathlon World Championships - Pursuit 10 km, Biathlon World Championships - Mass start 12.5 km, Biathlon World Championships - Individual 15 km, Biathlon World Championships - Relay 4 × 7.5 km, Biathlon World Championships - Team, Biathlon World Championships - Mixed, Biathlon World Championships - Relay 4 × 6 km

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His early interest in botanical studies naturally led him to undertake journeys among the Alps, and from 1773 onwards he directed his attention to the geology and physics of that region. This work did much to clear up the topography of the snowy portions of the Alps, and to attract the attention of tourists to spots like Chamonix and Zermatt. In 1760 he first visited Chamonix, and offered a reward to the first man to reach the summit of Mont Blanc (then unscaled). He made an unsuccessful attempt himself in 1785, by the Aiguille du Goûter ro ...

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Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Horace-Bénédict de Saussure - Life and work, Horace-Bénédict de Saussure - Recognition

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Education and early works. Shelley was the son of Sir Timothy Shelley, later the 2nd baronet of Castle Goring, and his wife Elizabeth Pilfold. He grew up in Sussex, and received his early education at home, tutored by Reverend Thomas Edwards of Horsham. In 1802, he entered the Sion House Academy of Brentford. In 1804, Shelley entered Eton College, and on April 10, 1810 he went to the University of Oxford (University College). His first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (1810) ...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Life, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Education and early works, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Married life, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Introduction to Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Personal tragedies and second marriage, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Travels in the Italian peninsula, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Drowning, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Advocacy for vegetarianism, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Family history, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ancestry, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Family, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Descendants, Percy Bysshe Shelley - Legacy, Percy Bysshe Shelley - List of major works

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The North American ski season starts as early as October and ends as late as August. The larger ski-able mountains are typically located on the mid-west to west coast of the continent. Area conditions for many of the areas listed here can be found on the weather network's Ski Report page. List of ski areas - Canada. Canyon Ski Area Castle Mountain Lake Louise Ski Area Marmot Basin Mount Norquay Nakiska Sunshine Village Fo ...

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List of ski areas, List of ski areas - Asia, List of ski areas - China, List of ski areas - Japan, List of ski areas - Korea, List of ski areas - Iran, List of ski areas - Israel, List of ski areas - Lebanon, List of ski areas - Turkey, List of ski areas - Africa, List of ski areas - Lesotho, List of ski areas - South Africa, List of ski areas - Australasia, List of ski areas - Australia, List of ski areas - New Zealand, List of ski areas - Europe, List of ski areas - Andorra, List of ski areas - Austria, List of ski areas - Bosnia and Herzegovina, List of ski areas - Croatia, List of ski areas - Cyprus, List of ski areas - Czech Republic, List of ski areas - Finland, List of ski areas - France, List of ski areas - Georgia, List of ski areas - Germany, List of ski areas - Greece, List of ski areas - Iceland, List of ski areas - Italy, List of ski areas - Norway, List of ski areas - Portugal, List of ski areas - Russia, List of ski areas - Scotland, List of ski areas - Serbia and Montenegro, List of ski areas - Slovenia, List of ski areas - Spain, List of ski areas - Sweden, List of ski areas - Switzerland, List of ski areas - Ukraine, List of ski areas - North America, List of ski areas - Canada, List of ski areas - New England USA, List of ski areas - Other Eastern United States, List of ski areas - West Coast USA, List of ski areas - Rocky Mountains USA, List of ski areas - Midwest USA, List of ski areas - Appalachian Mountains USA, List of ski areas - Far Southeast, List of ski areas - South America, List of ski areas - Bolivia, List of ski areas - Argentina, List of ski areas - Chile

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Torres was born on 28 December 1852, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, in Santa Cruz de Iguña, Molledo (Cantabria), Spain. The family resided for the most part in Bilbao, where Torres's father worked as a railway engineer, although they also spent long periods in his mother's family home on Mt. Santander. In Bilbao he studied to enter an advanced high school program and later spent two years in Paris to complete his studies. In 1870, his father was transferred, bringing his family to Madrid. The same year, Torres began his higher studies ...

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Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo - Biography, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo - Work, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo - Aerostatics, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo - Chess Automaton, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo - Cableways, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo - Radio Control: the Telekino, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo - Analogue calculating machines

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The craft of climbing has been developed to avoid two main types of danger: the danger of things falling on the traveller and the danger of the climber falling himself. The things that may fall are rocks, ice and snow; the mountaineer may fall from rocks, ice or snow, or into crevasses in ice or snow. There are also dangers from weather. Thus in all there are eight chief dangers: falling rocks, falling ice, snow-avalanches, falls from difficult rocks, falls from ice slopes, falls down snow slopes, falls into crevasses, dangers from weather. To select and follow a route avoiding these d ...

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Mountaineering, Mountaineering - Hazards, Mountaineering - Falling Rocks, Mountaineering - Falling Ice, Mountaineering - Snow Avalanches, Mountaineering - Falls from rocks, Mountaineering - Ice Slopes, Mountaineering - Snow Slopes, Mountaineering - Crevasses, Mountaineering - Weather, Mountaineering - Altitude, Mountaineering - History, Mountaineering - Quotations

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Main article: Administrative divisions of France Metropolitan (i.e. European) France is divided into 22 régions (although strictly speaking Corsica is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a region in common speech), which are subdivided into 96 départements, which are further divided into 329 arrondissements, which are further divided into 3,879 cantons, which ...

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Geography of France, Geography of France - Location, Geography of France - Area, Geography of France - Boundaries, Geography of France - Internal Divisions, Geography of France - Climate, Geography of France - Terrain, Geography of France - Natural resources, Geography of France - Land use, Geography of France - Natural hazards, Geography of France - Environment, Geography of France - Cities and towns include, Geography of France - Picture from space, Geography of France - Extreme points

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There were over 1800 automobile manufacturers in the United States from 1896 to 1930. Very few survived and only a few new ones were started after that period. List of automobile manufacturers - Major current US automakers. With their various brand-names, many of which earlier had been independent companies: AM General (not sold to private individuals; similar vehicles are sold to ordinary consumers as Hummers) DaimlerChrysler (Though headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, ...

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List of automobile manufacturers, List of automobile manufacturers - Argentina, List of automobile manufacturers - Armenia, List of automobile manufacturers - Australia, List of automobile manufacturers - Austria, List of automobile manufacturers - Belarus, List of automobile manufacturers - Belgium, List of automobile manufacturers - Brazil, List of automobile manufacturers - Bulgaria, List of automobile manufacturers - Canada, List of automobile manufacturers - A-E, List of automobile manufacturers - F-I, List of automobile manufacturers - L-R, List of automobile manufacturers - S-Z, List of automobile manufacturers - China, List of automobile manufacturers - Czech Republic, List of automobile manufacturers - Denmark, List of automobile manufacturers - Estonia, List of automobile manufacturers - Finland, List of automobile manufacturers - France, List of automobile manufacturers - A-H, List of automobile manufacturers - J-V, List of automobile manufacturers - Germany, List of automobile manufacturers - Major Current German Automobile Manufacturers, List of automobile manufacturers - Other German Manufacturers, List of automobile manufacturers - Hungary, List of automobile manufacturers - India, List of automobile manufacturers - Iran, List of automobile manufacturers - Ireland, List of automobile manufacturers - Israel, List of automobile manufacturers - Italy, List of automobile manufacturers - A-H, List of automobile manufacturers - I-Z, List of automobile manufacturers - Japan, List of automobile manufacturers - Latvia, List of automobile manufacturers - Liechtenstein, List of automobile manufacturers - Lithuania, List of automobile manufacturers - Malaysia, List of automobile manufacturers - Morocco, List of automobile manufacturers - Namibia, List of automobile manufacturers - Netherlands, List of automobile manufacturers - North Korea, List of automobile manufacturers - Norway, List of automobile manufacturers - Philippines, List of automobile manufacturers - Poland, List of automobile manufacturers - Portugal, List of automobile manufacturers - Romania, List of automobile manufacturers - Russia, List of automobile manufacturers - Serbia, List of automobile manufacturers - Slovenia, List of automobile manufacturers - South Korea, List of automobile manufacturers - Spain, List of automobile manufacturers - Sweden, List of automobile manufacturers - Switzerland, List of automobile manufacturers - Taiwan, List of automobile manufacturers - Thailand, List of automobile manufacturers - Turkey, List of automobile manufacturers - Ukraine, List of automobile manufacturers - United Arab Emirates, List of automobile manufacturers - United Kingdom, List of automobile manufacturers - A-E, List of automobile manufacturers - F-L, List of automobile manufacturers - M-R, List of automobile manufacturers - S-W, List of automobile manufacturers - United States, List of automobile manufacturers - Major current US automakers, List of automobile manufacturers - Defunct US automakers, List of automobile manufacturers - Vietnam

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In principle any conductor (wire) carrying an alternating current will radiate a radio signal. Thus a basic transmitter is just an oscillator connected directly to a wire antenna. Since transmitters require excellent frequency stability, there are usually several amplifier stages between oscillator and antenna. The intermediate amplifier stages prevent changes in the antenna circuit from affecting the frequency of the oscillator. Often the transmitter frequency is not the frequency produced by the oscillator, but one of its harmonics. ...

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Transmitter, Transmitter - History, Transmitter - Electromagnetic concepts, Transmitter - Skin effect and waveguides, Transmitter - Cooling of final stages, Transmitter - Protection equipment, Transmitter - Building, Transmitter - Legal and Regulatory Aspects, Transmitter - Planning, Transmitter - Transmitters in Culture, Transmitter - Records, Transmitter - Broadcasting

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