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  2. Foyers, Highland - Wikipedia

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    Foyers (Scottish Gaelic: Foithir, meaning "shelving slope") [1] is a village in the Highland council area of Scotland, [2] lying on the east shore of Loch Ness. The village is situated on the B852, part of the Military Road built by General George Wade , 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Fort Augustus .

  3. Falls of Foyers - Wikipedia

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    The Falls of Foyers (Scottish Gaelic: Eas na Smùide, meaning the smoking falls) are two waterfalls on the River Foyers, which feeds Loch Ness, in Highland, Scotland. They are located on the lower portion of the River Foyers, and consist of the upper falls, with a drop of 46 feet (14 m) and the lower falls, which drop 98 feet (30 m).

  4. List of villages in Europe - Wikipedia

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  5. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...

  6. List of administrative divisions by country - Wikipedia

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    Rural areas: villages (cūnjí), village areas or village groups [ae] 5 autonomous regions (zìzhìqū) 4 municipalities (zhíxiáshì) 2 special administrative regions (tèbié xíngzhèngqū): Hong Kong: 18 districts: Macau: Colombia: Unitary 32 departments (departamentos) 1,102 municipalities (municipios) 2,000+ corregimientos (towns ...

  7. Hillfoots Villages - Wikipedia

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    The Hillfoots Villages are the villages and small towns which lie at the base of the southern scarp face of the Ochil Hills, formed by the Ochil Fault, in Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire in central Scotland. From west to east the communities are Blairlogie, Menstrie, Alva, Tillicoultry, Devonside, Coalsnaughton, Dollar and Muckhart.

  8. Great Polish Map of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    The map was designed by Dr. Kazimierz Trafas, a young cartographer from the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. [1] Despite the tensions of the Cold War, links between Scotland and Polish universities had been good since the late 1960s, when threshold analysis techniques in town and regional planning devised in Poland were refined and applied in Scotland for the Scottish Development Department.

  9. Foyer (housing model) - Wikipedia

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    The Foyer housing model is a method of transitional housing for youth that evolved from temporary housing for laborers in Europe. After World War II , foyers were used to provide accommodation for a movement of people from rural France to cities seeking work.