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The Echills Wood Railway is a 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (184 mm) miniature hobbyist railway in Kingsbury Water Park, Warwickshire, England.. A feature of the railway is its gnome village, a collection of garden gnomes donated by the public.
Cottingley Beck, where Frances and Elsie claimed to have seen the fairies. In mid-1917 nine-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother – both newly arrived in England from South Africa – were staying with Frances's aunt, Elsie Wright's mother, Polly, in the village of Cottingley in West Yorkshire; Elsie was then 16 years old.
Name Description Alfheim: The Land of elves in Norse mythology.: Asgard: The high placed city of the gods, built by Odin, chief god of the Norse pantheon.: Biarmaland: A geographical area around the White Sea in the northern part of (European) Russia, referred to in Norse sagas.
Map of the historical and current Iditarod trails; the route taken during the 1925 serum run is shown in green.. The 1925 serum run to Nome, also known as the Great Race of Mercy and The Serum Run, was a transport of diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled relay across the US territory of Alaska by 20 mushers and about 150 sled dogs across 674 miles (1,085 km) in 5½ days, saving the small town of ...
Nome first appeared on the 1900 US Census as an unincorporated village of 12,488 residents. At the time, it was the largest community in Alaska, ahead of Skagway and Juneau, the 2nd and 3rd largest places. The demographics for 1900 included 12,395 Whites, 42 Natives, 41 Asians and 10 Blacks. [18] It was incorporated as a city in 1901.
For example, in 2005, a gnome was stolen out of Washington state resident Marianne Severson's garden and returned with photographic proof he'd met several celebrities, including Paris Hilton.
The Kabouter (Dutch pronunciation: [kaːˈbʌutər] ⓘ) is a gnome-like creature in Dutch folklore. The Dutch Kabouters are akin to the Irish Leprechaun , Scandinavian Tomte or Nisse, the English Hob , [ 1 ] the Scottish Brownie [ 2 ] and the German Klabauter or kobold .
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