Historically and economically the most important part of Messinia is the great plain, consisting of two distinct portions, watered by the river Pamisus (mod. Pirnatza) and its affluents. This is the most fertile tract in Greece, and at the present day produces oranges, citrons, almonds, figs, grapes and olives in great abundance and of excellent quality. The plain, is bounded on the north by the Nomian Mountains (modern Tetrási, around 1,570 m, 5210 ft.) and their westerly extension, on the west by the mountains of Cyparissia (around 1,300 ...

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An early European explorer, Viçente Pegado, Captain of the Portuguese Garrison of Sofala, described Zimbabwe thus, in 1531: "Among the gold mines of the inland plains between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers there is a fortress built of stones of marvelous size, and there appears to be no mortar joining them.... This edifice is almost surrounded by hills, upon which are others resembling it in the fashioning of stone and the absence of mortar, and one of them is a tower more than 12 fathoms [22 m] high. The natives of the country call these edifices Symbaoe, which accord ...

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St Neots lies close to the south-western edge of Huntingdonshire district and is situated in the valley of the River Great Ouse, partly on the flood plain and partly on slightly higher ground a little further from the water. The Great Ouse is a mature river, once wide and shallow but now controlled by weirs and sluices and restrained in a well-defined channel. Tributaries entering the Ouse in the town are the River Kym, ...

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ANTHEM OF THE GAMES Ancient immortal Spirit, pure father of beauty, of greatness and of truth, descend, reveal yourself as lightning here within the glory of your own earth and sky. At running and wrestling and at throwing illuminate in the noble Games’ momentum, and crown with the unfading branch and make the body worthy and ironlike. Plains, mountains and seas shine with you like a white-and-purple great temple, and hurries at the temple here, your ...

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Westbury is sometimes known as Westbury-under-the-Plain to distinguish it from other towns of the same name. Westbury nestles under the north-western bluffs of Salisbury Plain, and it is there that the town's most famous feature can be seen: the Westbury White Horse. It is believed that the White Horse was originally cut into the chalk face to commemorate the victory of King Alfred the Great over the Danes in the Battle of Eðandun (nearby Edington) in 878. Its original form was probably quite different from the horse seen today. The form of ...

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Debrecen is located on the Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld in Hungarian), 220 km east of Budapest. Situated nearby is the Hortobágy, a national park within Hungarian Puszta famous for its wildlife and traditional agriculture. Coordinates: 47°31′60″N, 21°37′60″E "Who in his sane mind would build a city in the middle of a plain with no hill and no water?" people once asked about Debrecen, yet the city has grown into a vi ...

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The length of the Tisza in Hungary used to be 1419 km. It flowed through the Great Hungarian Plain, which is one of the largest flat areas in central Europe, and since plains can cause a river to flow very slowly the Tisza used to follow a path with lots of curves and turns. Mainly for this reason, many large floods occurred in the area. After several small-scale attempts István Széchenyi organised the "control of the Tisza" ("a Tisza szabályozása") which started on August 27, 1846 and substantially ended in 1880. The result: the new length of the river in Hungary was 966 km, with 589 km ...

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Dune - Sand dune plains. (large expanses of dunes) Great Sand Dunes National Park Mesquite Flat Dunes, USA Western Sahara White Sands National Monument Rig-e Jenn in the Central Desert of Iran The Great Sand Dunes of southwest Saskatchewan Southeastern Shore of Lake Michigan Imperial Sand Dunes near Brawley, Ca ...

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Dune - Sand dune plains. (large expanses of dunes) Great Sand Dunes National Park Mesquite Flat Dunes, USA Western Sahara White Sands National Monument Rig-e Jenn in the Central Desert of Iran The Great Sand Dunes of southwest Saskatchewan Southeastern Shore of Lake Michigan Imperial Sand Dunes near Brawley, Ca ...

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Cairns is located on the eastern side at the base of Cape York Peninsula on a coastal strip between the Coral Sea and the Great Dividing Range. The northern part of the city is located on Trinity Bay and the city centre is located on Cairns Inlet. Some of the city's suburbs are located on fertile flood plains. The Mulgrave River and Barron River flow within the city's boundary but not through the city itself. The city centre's foreshore is located on a mud flat. The highest mountain in Queensland, Mount Bartle Frere, is located within the city's boundaries. See also:

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Kurukshetra Kuruksetra (Sanskrit) The plain upon which the great battle between the Kurus and Pandavas took place, as told in the Mahabharata. Modern scholars place it in northwest India near Delhi, where there is a plain which to this day is called the Plain of Kurukshetra.

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Kurukshetra: (Sanskrit) An extensive plain near Delhi, scene of the great war between the Kauravas and Pandavas.

See: Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita.

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Varsha (Sanskrit). A region, a plain; any stretch of country situated between the great mountain-ranges of the earth.

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Birs Nimrud (Chald.). Believed by the Orientalists to be the site of the Tower of Babel. The great pile of Birs Nimrud is near Babylon. Sir H. Rawlinson and several Assyriologists examined the excavated ruins and found that the tower consisted of seven stages of brick-work, each stage of a different colour, which shows that the temple was devoted to the seven planets. Even with its three higher stages or floors in ruins, it still rises now 154 feet above the level of the plain. ("See Borsippa".)

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Mother Nature The productive and generative powers of cosmic spirit, considered from the human standpoint as a feminine agent in universal nature, and hence often called the Great Mother, the Immaculate Virgin, space, the cosmic deep, mula-maya or root-maya, etc.

The first stage of manifestation is the representation of the plain or empty disk, cosmic infinitude; the second stage is the First Logos or the disk with the central point; and the third stage, to which Mother Nature refers, is the disk with the horizontal diameter, or the Second or Manifest-Unmanifest Logos.

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