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  2. Salton Sea - Wikipedia

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    The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline endorheic lake in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretches to the Gulf of California in Mexico. The lake is about 15 by 35 miles (24 by 56 km) at its widest and longest.

  3. Nautical fiction - Wikipedia

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    An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.

  4. The Monster That Challenged the World - Wikipedia

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    Other primary filming locations included the Salton Sea, as well as Brawley and Barstow, California. The close-ups were later filmed in a tank filled with water and plastic seaweed. [6] In a 2016 interview, star Audrey Dalton recalled: I thought it was a very interesting experience – as all my movies were in different ways. The director ...

  5. 5 Things to Know about the Salton Sea - AOL

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    The Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge has recorded 424 species of birds. Located on the Pacific flyway, heavy migrations of waterfowl, marsh and seabirds occur during spring and fall.

  6. Salvation Mountain - Wikipedia

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    Salvation Mountain at the LOVE IS UNIVERSAL area; 2008 photo. Salvation Mountain is a hillside visionary environment created by local resident Leonard Knight (1931–2014) in the California Desert area of Imperial County, north of Calipatria, northeast of Niland, near the Slab City squatter/art commune, [1] and several miles from the Salton Sea.

  7. Mathematical fiction - Wikipedia

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    The form and the medium of the works are not important. The genre may include poems, short stories, novels or plays; comic books; films, videos, or audios. One of the earliest, and much studied, work of this genre is Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Mathematical ...

  8. Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie - Wikipedia

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    Before that wi' Salton I'd wear gowd on my head, Wear gowd on my head, or gowns fring'd to the knee; And I'll die if I getna my love Auchanachie. "O Salton's [a] valley lies low by the sea, He's bowed on the back, and thrawin on the knee;"..... "O Salton's a valley lies low by the sea; Though he's bowed on the back and thrawin on the knee,

  9. Alamo River - Wikipedia

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    The 52-mile-long (84 km) [1] river drains into the Salton Sea. The New River , Alamo River, and the Salton Sea of the 21st century started in autumn 1904, when the Colorado River , swollen by seasonal rainfall and snow-melt, flowed through a series of three human-engineered openings in the recently constructed levee bank of the Alamo Canal . [ 4 ]