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  • other forces. For this work he shared the Grand Prix of the Academie des ... " for which he was awarded the Grand Prix. He then turned his ...
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  • After Grand Ole Opry star Little Jimmy Dickens made a guest appearance on Robbins' TV show, Dickens got Robbins a record deal with Columbia ...
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  • Rulers of the dynasty were known as Grand Princes of Rascia from 1166 ... Subsequently, he adopted the title "Grand Prince." Stefan ...
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  • == The Domination of Qin and the resulting Grand Strategies == Towards the end of the Warring States Period, the state of Qin became disproportionately ...
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  • He was condemned by the Mainz Commission; the Grand Duke of Weimar was compelled to deprive him of his professorship and he was forbidden to lecture ...
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  • problems such as the deterioration of the Grand Canal which was used to ship ... Yellow River to prevent flooding, and the Grand Canal which was used to ship ...
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  • and his bravery. However, the incumbent Grand Councilor, Lu Qi (盧杞 ... admired by the common people, but angered Grand Councilor Yang Guozhong; ...
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  • are also Grandes écoles (literally "Grand Schools" or "Elite ... Lycée Henri-IV and Lycée Louis-le-Grand. The Lycée Louis-le-Grand ...
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  • it lampoons the traditional "Grand Tour," whereby Englishmen were meant to acquire civilization by traveling throughout the European ...
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  • whom Sinan had previously served, became Grand Vizier and appointed Sinan ... of the mausoleum (türbe) of the Grand Admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa ...
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  • The bay is home to several islands, the largest of which is Grand ... * Grand Manan Island to Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick. White Head ...
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  • St. Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings. Grand Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans, 1971 ... * Peters, Ted. Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society. Grand Rapids ...
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  • and Sudan founded in Mecca in 1837 by the Grand Senussi, Sayyid Muhammad ... Finding the opposition in Mecca too powerful the Grand Senussi settled ...
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  • Kingston. In 1868, he was named by the United Grand Lodge of England as its Grand Representative near the Grand Lodge of Canada (in Ontario) and the rank ...
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  • New York) and the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation (near ... ;Six Nations of the Grand River Six Nations of the Grand River is the ...
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  • III as the Holy Roman Emperor in a grand ceremony held in Rome. After ... Franconia, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola; Grand Duke of Kraków; Grand Prince ...
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  • first landed near present-day Cockburn Town on Grand Turk in the West Indies but soon settled in Hispaniola. He helped conquer the indigenous Tainos ...
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  • from Olympus, the Sun never looked on aught so grand" ... *Grand Canyon *Great Barrier Reef *Harbour of Rio de Janeiro ...
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  • The First Battle of Tannenberg (or Battle of Grunwald) took place on July 15, 1410 with the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...
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  • ) (June 20, 1566 – April 30, 1632) was Grand Duke of Lithuania and ... III, by the grace of God, king of Poland, grand duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia ...
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  • [[Image:Piano keyboard.JPG|thumb|right|350px|A grand piano]] ... ultimately became the standard action for grand pianos, used by all manufacturers. ...
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  • other consequences, led to the rise of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which ruled ... family perished in the fire, while the grand prince hastily retreated ...
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  • Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 — May 2, 1864) was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of French Grand Opera ...
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  • made him the first Hispanic man to win a Grand Slam championship. He gained ... Kramer, Frank Sedgman, a seven-time Grand Slam singles winner, Pancho ...
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  • *Grand Turk (with the capital of the territory) *Salt Cay ... In 1783, the French landed a force on Grand Turk, which a British ...
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  • can arise from a single interaction, known as a grand unified theory. Grand unified theories predict relationships between otherwise unrelated constants ...
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  • He was known as "Couperin le Grand" to distinguish him ... trio sonata form to France. Couperin's grand trio sonata was subtitled ...
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  • *1984-1991 SJ Jeep Grand Wagoneer ** 1991 Final Edition ... *1993-1998 ZJ Grand Cherokee [[Image:96-98 Jeep Grand Cherokee.jpg ...
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  • *Ise Daijingū. 1979. Jingū: the grand shrine of Ise. Ise, Japan: ... *Public Relations Section for the Regular Removal of Grand Shrine ...
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  • styles, including the famous Victorian Grand Hotel; and its ban on almost ... companies built hotels, including the Grand Hotel. Souvenir shops began ...
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  • Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova), ( Великая Княжна Анастасия Николаевна Романов ...
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  • sea. Recent prohibitions on fishing in the Grand Banks due to overfishing ... include to the southeast of St. Pierre: Grand Colombier, Petit Colombier ...
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  • , have pretended to the Romanovs’ old grand ducal title. Her supporters ... prior to the Russian Revolution—The Grand Duke's marriage to Princess ...
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  • Bidar, Bijapur, and Golconda formed a grand alliance to met the Vijayanagara ... The Deccan kings had a grand total of 80,000 infantry and 30,000 cavalry ...
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  • When Freiburg became a part of the newly established Grand Duchy of Baden (in German "Großherzogtum Baden") in 1805 (after Napoleon ...
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  • Grand Cordon of the Order of the Nile * [[File:EGY Order of Merit ... Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (Egypt) ===Foreign honors=== ...
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  • last volume, entitled Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand (Ideas. The Book Le Grand ... *Ideen, das Buch le Grand, 1827 *Englische Fragmente, 1827 ...
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  • Over many centuries, the Grand Canal was built to connect the Yellow ... it destroyed the northern section of the Grand Canal and flooded large areas ...
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  • Medical, and Theological Aspects. Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Book ... Evil: A Biblical Study of Satan and Demons. Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Books ...
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  • took a new Queen, Inmok. Yeongchangdaegun (Grand Prince Yeongchang, 永昌大君 ... Greater Northerners turned their sights on Grand Prince Yeongchang, now seven ...
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  • 1645, and against the objections of the Grand Vizier Sultanzade Mehmed Pasha, ... In 1657, the Ottomans reversed the situation. A new and energetic ...
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  • ===Napoleon Bonaparte's "Grand Sanhedrin"=== The "Grand Sanhedrin" was a Jewish high court convened by ...
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  • The court also maintains a 17-member Grand Chamber, which consists of ... of great importance may be appealed to the Grand Chamber. Any decision of ...
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  • after the appointment of the first noble Grand Master. His Diary and Commonplace Book of June 6, 1721, says "I was made a Freemason at the ...
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  • malls throughout history include Isfahan's Grand Bazaar, which is largely covered and dates from the tenth century, and the 10-kilometer long ...
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  • points along the Great Wall, the Yangtze River and Grand Canal. Members of a Banner were referred to as “bannermen.” Bannermen were segregated ...
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  • 5.2 million visitors each year, with a grand total of 6.7 million visitors ... Indian and Persian miniatures—a truly grand rococo salon. ...
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  • 2nd edition. Edited by L. Arnold Hustard. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic ... *Weaver, J. Denny. The Nonviolent Atonement. Grand Rapids, MI: William ...
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  • ====《史記》 Records of the Grand Historian==== *compiled by Sima ... In Records of the Grand Historian, written from 109 B.C.E. to 91 B ...
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  • other communications. On September 15, a grand jury indicted them and two ... to hinder the Watergate investigation. The grand jury also secretly named ...
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  • Saint Stephen I (Hungarian: I. (Szent) István, Slovak: (Svätý) Štefan I.) (967 – August 15, 1038) was Grand Prince of the Magyars (997 ...
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  • to subjects of the empire, consisted of a grand hall that was almost 25 square ... by his son Xerxes I. The palace had a grand hall in the shape of a square ...
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  • towns of Gothenburg, Cozad, Kearney, and Grand Island. It is joined by the ... River such as Omaha, Lincoln, Kearney, Grand Island, and North Platte ...
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  • [[File:Greta Garbo John Barrymore Grand Hotel still.jpg|thumb|300px ... She was next part of an all-star cast in Grand Hotel (1932), which won the ...
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  • for his son at the Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Entering the school, which Maximilien Robespierre and Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron also ...
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  • ===Oneida at Six Nations of the Grand River=== Six Nations of the Grand River is the name applied to two contiguous ...
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  • III. Through her son she was the Great-Grand mother of the latest Swedish ... Alexandre on December 13, 1779, in Noisy-le-Grand. Although their marriage ...
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  • gems of the medieval market known as the Grand Place, including the curious ... The Upper Town has the city's grand museums and is where the ...
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  • Than, "In Commemoration of the Grand Opening of Burmese Buddhist ... * Than, Mya. 2001. In Commemoration of the Grand Opening of Burmese ...
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  • The fraternity is administratively organized into Grand Lodges (or ... The first Grand Lodge, the Grand Lodge of England (GLE), was founded ...
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  • for a few seconds every few minutes, while Grand Geyser in the U.S. erupts ... [[Image:Grand prismatic spring.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Hyperthermophiles ...
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  • Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Grand Master of the Knights, sailed ... Expecting another Ottoman invasion within a year, then Grand Master ...
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  • * Hailey, Homer. A Commentary on the Minor Prophets. Grand Rapids: ... Form, and Background of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans ...
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  • [[Image:Grand Entry Omaha.jpg|thumb|right|250 px|Grand Entry at the 1983 Omaha pow-wow.]] The Omaha Reservation today is located in northeastern ...
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  • Contemporary Onondaga are found in the Six Nations of the Grand River ... Contemporary Onondaga are found in the Six Nations of the Grand River ...
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  • to sell or distribute), embezzlement, grand theft, treason, espionage ... the loss of competence to serve on a grand or petit jury or to vote ...
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  • * Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, 1991 * Grand Cross of Legion of Honour, 1991 * Grand Order of Merit, Italy, 1991 ...
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  • to have ever scored a walk-off, inside-the-park grand slam. An inside-the-park grand slam is when a batter gets a hit with the ...
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  • Webb and completed in 1911 as part of a grand memorial to Queen Victoria ... from the Guard Room at the top of the Grand Staircase. The Guard Room ...
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  • #039;s passenger cruise ship Zaandam dry docked at Grand Bahama Shipyard, Freeport, Grand Bahama in January 2003.]] ==History== ===Ptolemaic Egypt=== ...
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  • hosted a feast for him in the Hall of Grand Harmony in the Forbidden ... the Borjigit clan, niece of Xiao Zhuang Grand Imperial Dowager Empress ...
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  • Suzuki's largest vehicle to date, the Grand Vitara XL-7 was the first ... for the first time. Suzuki redesigned the Grand Vitara in 2006, and in 2007 ...
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  • he was made “mahapit” (grand vizier) and undertook a campaign ... in 1321, Gajah Mada and the then-mahapatih (grand vizier) Arya Tadah helped ...
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  • Cowboys, which appeared regularly on the Grand Ole Opry. In 1943, he hosted ... Cowboys, which appeared regularly on the Grand Ole Opry, country music& ...
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  • La belle Hélène, La Périchole, and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein. ... *La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (The Grand Duchess of Gérolstein) ...
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  • throwing the Series. In September 1920, a grand jury was convened to investigate. ... In testimony before the grand jury, Jackson admitted under oath that ...
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  • Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Russian: Иван IV Васильевич) (August 25, 1530 – March 18, 1584) was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 ...
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  • landforms as the Painted Desert and the Grand Canyon as well as many other ... The Grand Canyon is a colorful, steep-sided gorge in northern Arizona ...
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  • [[Image:Grand Quartz 9943-8010.jpg|thumb|right|Grand Quartz, produced ... " "King Seiko," and "Grand Seiko" lines, are the ...
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  • No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a ... [[Image:Latimes-bldg-from-grand-ave.png|thumb|left|300px|The Los Angeles ...
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  • (1590–1621). In 1609, Cosimo became Grand Duke Cosimo II of Tuscany ... inscribe these with the name of the Most Serene Grand Duke. ...
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  • Palme d'Or was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival, the previous ... ** Grand Prix – Grand Prize of the Festival ** Prix du Jury – Jury Prize ...
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  • [http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/sept/grand-slam.htm Grand Slam—A ... troops, who urgently launched Operation Grand Slam to contain the situation ...
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  • #039;s "bosses" (called the "Grand Sachem") and their supporters ... denunciation of Tammany Hall. This led to a grand jury investigation and the ...
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  • of the Jugoslavs, for National Existence (Grand Rapids, MI: Fleming H. Revell ... Existence. Translated by Fanny S. Copeland. Grand Rapids, MI: Fleming H. Revell ...
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  • 2nd ed. Edited by L. Arnold Hustard. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic ... *Weaver, J. Denny. The Nonviolent Atonement. Grand Rapids, Mich.: ...
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  • one for the queen. The King's Suite (Grand appartement du roi) occupied ... Significant to the design and construction of the Grand Suites (grands ...
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  • his was "The Band" in Al Capone's Grand Terrace Cafe—Hines was Capone's "Mr Piano Man." From the Grand Terrace in centrally ...
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  • of the Indian Empire" by Queen Victoria, a Grand Commander of the Indian Empire by Edward VII (1902), and a Knight Grand Commander of the Indian ...
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  • contents. His images were often jarring. In his grand ode to the empress, for instance, he mentions searching for fleas in his wife's hair and compares ...
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  • in 1937, it was designated a national park in 1971. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area are adjacent ...
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  • than nearby Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon. The rim at Bryce ... visitors compared to Zion Canyon and the Grand Canyon, largely due to its ...
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  • of Alexander, his liberal-minded brother, Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich ... Constitution, the wife of His Highness the Grand Duke?' is not true. ...
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  • * Hailey, Homer. A Commentary on The Minor Prophets. Grand Rapids ... and Frederic Bush. Old Testament Survey. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans ...
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  • Ruckers harpsichords. In a process called grand ravalement, many of the surviving ... built were heavily influenced by the modern grand piano, notably in using heavy ...
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  • GCMG), Royal Victorian Order (GCVO), Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the ... On January 1, 1946, he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the ...
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  • of John: Introduction, Exposition, and Notes. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1979. ISBN 978-0802817839 *Bultmann, Rudolf Karl. The Johannine Epistles; ...
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  • (b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... title Didysis Kunigaikštis. Translated as grand duke or grand prince, Kunigaikštis ...
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  • [[Image:Grand Tetons11.jpg|thumb|200px|Teton Range in Grand Teton ... *Grand Teton National Park *Glacier National Park Canadian National ...
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  • southern shore, and can be divided into the Grand Lac (Large Lake) to the east ... to control control the passage to the Grand St. Bernard pass, the castle ...
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