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  Encyclopedia: Lake Chagan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lake Chagan (or Lake Balapan), Kazakhstan, 49.93° N 79.01° E, is a lake created during the Soviet atomic bomb project by the Chagan nuclear test.
Chagan was a Soviet nuclear test the during the Soviet atomic bomb project and was equivalent of the US Operation Plowshare to investigate peaceful uses of nuclear weapons.
The average yearly temperature reaches 43 in the south and 34 in the north; the winter is very cold, and frosts of 44 F. are not uncommon, while the thermometer rises to 122 in the shade in the summer.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lake-Chagan   (604 words)

  
 Soviet atomic bomb project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chagan nuclear test, photo not to be confused with Joe 1.
Chagan was shot in the Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy or Project 7, the Soviet equivalent of the US Operation Plowshare to investigate peaceful uses of nuclear weapons.
The site was a dry bed of the Chagan River at the edge of the Semipalatinsk Test Site, and was chosen such that the lip of the crater would dam the river during its high spring flow.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project   (1008 words)

  
 Section 22 – The Kingdom of Yanqi 焉耆 (Karashahr)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The lake is the Bagragh or Baghrash Kol (or Bositeng Hu in Pinyin).
The lake at Korla is the playground, too, of innumerable flocks of water-birds, and is the breeding-place of swans, whose plumage is in much demand by the Chinese as an edging for valuable robes.
The latter is identified with Bostang Lake or Bagrash Kul and the former with the Hai-tu or Yulduz.
depts.washington.edu /uwch/silkroad/texts/hhshu/notes22.html   (2031 words)

  
 SEMIPALATINSK - LoveToKnow Article on SEMIPALATINSK
The Kurchum, the Narym and the Bukhtarma are the chief righthand tributaries of the Irtysh, while the Char-urban, Chagan and many smaller streams join it from the left; none are navigable; neither are the Kokpekty and Bugaz, which enter Lake Zaisan on the west.
Lake Balkash, which borders Semipalatinsk on the south-west, formerly received several tributaries from the Chinghiz-tau.
Fishing, which is carried on in lakes Zaisan and Balkash, as also in the Black Irtysh, is of considerable importance.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEMIPALATINSK.htm   (796 words)

  
 Soviet atomic bomb project
The test was at Novaya Zemlya Nuclear Range on Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Sea.
Chagan was the Soviet equivalent of the US Operation Plowshare to investigate peaceful uses of nuclear weapons.
It was an underground test (note the debris fallout in the photo), and was fired on January 15 1965.
en.mcfly.org /Soviet_atomic_bomb_project   (777 words)

  
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The chagan had never seen an elephant; and his curiosity was excited by the strange, and perhaps fabulous, portrait of that wonderful animal.
In the disposition both of his troops and provinces the chagan exposed the vassals, whose lives he disregarded, ^33 to the first assault; and the swords of the enemy were blunted before they encountered the native valor of the Avars.
In the mean while, the magistrates of Constantinople repeatedly strove to purchase the retreat of the chagan; but their deputies were rejected and insulted; and he suffered the patricians to stand before his throne, while the Persian envoys, in silk robes, were seated by his side.
www.alcdsb.on.ca /literature/GIBBON,%20EDWARD/DECLINE%20AND%20FALL%20OF%20THE%20ROMAN%20EMPIRE%20BY%20GIBBON%20V4/DECLINE%20AND%20FALL%20OF%20THE%20ROMAN%20EMPIRE,%20V4%20PART%206.TXT   (18071 words)

  
 Beijing Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Chagan Lake, covering an area of 400 square kilometers in the Qianguo Mongolian Autonomous County, is one of the ten largest freshwater lakes in China, and also home to some 70 species of fish.
From Chagan lake you can also take a cruise to enjoy the idyllic grasslands and rice fields along the 54-kilometer-long Yinsong Canal, which was dug 20 years ago and links Chagan lake with the faraway Songhua River.
Fifteen kilometers northeast of Chagan lake are the ruins of the 1000-year-old Tahu city, which was a thriving city during the Liao and Jin dynasties.
biz.beijingportal.com.cn /5369/2003-1-31/207@661718.htm   (683 words)

  
 Lake Charles - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lake Charles
Most of the city's industries are related to the area's oil and gas resources; they include chemicals, oil refining, plastics, and synthetic rubber.
Lake Charles is also a distribution centre for the region's major crop, rice.
Lake Charles was settled in 1781 and incorporated as a city in 1904; it is the seat of McNeese State University (1938).
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Lake+Charles   (182 words)

  
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Maximum lake levels would not have left strandlines, because at that stage the lakes were bounded on all sides by glaciers.
The dam of Lake Chuya was created by a surging glacier moving down the Chagan Uzun valley from the Chuya Range to the south.
There were almost certainly spillways from Lake Chuya to the north, and there may have been spillways to the south into Mongolia; Lake Kuray spilled upstream into Lake Chuya helping to fill that basin, and may have spilled to the north.
www.mines.edu /academic/geology/faculty/klee/cat/altai.doc   (4160 words)

  
 The Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program
Joe-1 was a 20 Kt tower shot, and study of the Chagan picture shows copious amounts of debris fallout, a sure-fire indicator of a subsurface explosion.
The crater formed by the Chagan explosion had a diameter of 408 m and a depth of 100 m.
The nuclear explosive used for the Chagan test was reported to be a low-fission design, which had a pure thermonuclear secondary driven by a fission primary with a yield of about 5-7 kt.
nuclearweaponarchive.org /Russia/Sovwpnprog.html   (2117 words)

  
 Species info - HTML
The main breeding grounds of the continental population are in the wetlands in the Amur and Ussuri river watersheds near to the border between Russia and mainland China, as far west as the Zeya valley in Amur and north to Lake Bolon' in Khabarovsk.
It occurs on passage at Xingkai lake from mid-October to mid-November, and the peak of autumn migration is in early November (Zhang Aizhong et al.
In Primorye, there were intensive drainage schemes at Lake Khanka in the 1960s_1980s, mainly to develop rice cultivation, but most of the marshlands used by this species survived; however, when the nature reserve was established there in 1990, the bird's habitats were mainly excluded from the reserve and remain practically unprotected (Glushchenko and Shibaev 1996).
www.rdb.or.id /view_html.php?id=57&op=grusjapo   (10630 words)

  
 Semipalatinsk Test Site - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Later tests were moved to the Chagan River complex and nearby Balapan in the east of the STS (including the site of the Chagan test, which formed Lake Chagan).
Once atmospheric tests were banned, testing was transferred to underground locations at Chagan, Murzhik (in the west), and at the Degelen Mountain complex in the south, which is riddled with boreholes and drifts for both subcritical and supercritical tests.
After the closure of the Semipalatinsk labor camp, construction duties were performed by the 217th separate engineering and mining battalion (who later build the Baikonur Cosmodrome).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site   (644 words)

  
 The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Chapter 42
Leonidas, and his three hundred companions, devoted their lives at Thermopylae; but the education of the infant, the boy, and the man, had prepared, and almost insured, this memorable sacrifice; and each Spartan would approve, rather than admire, an act of duty, of which himself and eight thousand of his fellow-citizens were equally capable.
They were bold and dexterous archers, who drank the milk, and feasted on the flesh, of their fleet and indefatigable horses; whose flocks and herds followed, or rather guided, the motions of their roving camps; to whose inroads no country was remote or impervious, and who were practised in flight, though incapable of fear.
The chagan, the peculiar title of their king, still affected to cultivate the friendship of the emperor; and Justinian entertained some thoughts of fixing them in Pannonia, to balance the prevailing power of the Lombards.
www.ccel.org /g/gibbon/decline/volume2/chap42.htm   (14044 words)

  
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In mountain and hill areas, there is desert grassland vegetation dominated by perennial xerophytic and tussock grass, Allium plants and super-xerophytic shrubs, mainly occur at the lower hills with elevation of 1OOOm near Sitai, and is the transition belt for horizontal deserta of plain and vertical grassland vegetation of mountains.
The oval Sailimu Lake is an inland lake with elevation of 2073m, area of457m and depth of 86m.
Lake water is blue and clear with higher clarity because the huge Calcium carbonate melted in lake.
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 Lake Erie Fishing Guides - Read All About It   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lake Erie fishing is known for it's abundance of trophy walleyes, smallmouth and perch.
Lake Erie Walleye fishing charter based in the Western Basin of Lake Erie at Marblehead Ohio.
Lake Erie fishing charters for walleye, smallmouth bass and perch at Vermilion and Port Clinton, Ohio with Capt....
www.greendir.info /index.php?k=lake-erie-fishing-guides   (1310 words)

  
 Chinese Lakes-Virtual Science Museum of China
The lake possesses various expressions in different languages: "Lake"in English, "Lac"in French, "See m.-n"in German, and "Ozepo"in Russian, which are all simple and singular.
All the expressions for lakes are characterized by regional distribution, and feature the nations and languages.
For example, the lake is called Dang, Jiu and Yang in Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, and Shanghai Municipality, Po in Shandong Province, Dian in Hebei Province, and Haizi in Sichuan Province.
www.kepu.com.cn /english/lake/divine/200309220016.html   (192 words)

  
 Babati
It was because of the big potential for sugar cane that IPI earmarked the area for the installation of prototypes of mini-sugar plants in an effort to promote the technology as well as produce crystalling or table sugar for the local market.
The lake, which over the last ten years had over flooded on two separate occasions, has recently burst its shores and is encroaching into the township.
It is claimed that agricultural activities around the lake are the cause of siltation in the lake.
www.ntz.info /gen/n00740.html   (5473 words)

  
 Ubwani, Zephania: Babati land conflict
Mzee Chagan was (and probably still is) the owner of the 3,000 acre Dudumera Plantations Limited which is roughly ten kilometres off the Arusha-Babati road..
According to the villagers, the present Dudumera Plantations, which Mzee Chagan owns under a 99 year lease, was formerly run by a famous Greek settler called A. Matsis, who later settled near Arusha and died in the 1980s.
It was not a favorable land for cattle grazers because of the high incidence of trypanosomiasis, a disease caused by tsetse flies and which is lethal to livestock and human beings.
www.ntz.info /gen/b00625.html   (1803 words)

  
 Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, vol 3, The   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The united stream flows westwards towards Balkh, before reaching which it gradually trends to the northwest until, after a course of about 1300 miles, it reaches the south coast of the Aral Sea.
In the fourteenth century it is supposed to have entered the Caspian by the Uzboi channel, near Mikhailovsk.
It was proposed at one time to attempt to reopen this bed, but the scheme has been abandoned in favour of the steppe river, Chagan.
manybooks.net /pages/hakluytretext058hk0310/276.html   (255 words)

  
 Chinese Lakes-Virtual Science Museum of China
In the bottom of the valley there always distribute some lakes in vertical extensions, and the direction of the lake major axis is identical to that of tectonic line in the area.
Sun-moon Lake in Taiwan Province is a mountain tectonic lake formed due to the water accumulation in the rift basin between Yu Mountain and Ali Mountain.
Xingkai Lake on the Sino-Russian border is a tectonic lake formed on the basis of rift in the Tertiary Period.
www.kepu.com.cn /english/lake/origin/200309230010.html   (453 words)

  
 Fishing Information - Fishing
Lakes in certain parts of the country contain more than something you want in your livewell.
I was fishing a small lake in central California back in 1980, I think it was that year.
I had been fishing for a couple of hours and doing ok, catching some 1-2 pound fish and in a far I was fishing a small lake in central California back in 1980, I think it was that year.
www.teacherforums.net /fishing   (2519 words)

  
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LAKES At the maximum extent of late Pleistocene lake filling, about 14 Ka, the Chuya lake system [here used to denote the combined Lakes Kuray and Chuya] may have spilled south into the Mongolian Gobi and almost certainly spilled north into the Bashkaus River drainage.
In contrast, at Altai two lakes interacted in a lake system, perhaps Lake Kuray sometimes acting independently; each had its own ice dam formed by an alpine or outlet glacier.
Rudoy, A. N., 1998, Mountain ice-dammed lakes of southern Siberia and their influence on the development and regime of the intracontinental runoff systems of north Asia in the Late Pleistocene, in Benito, G., Baker, V.R., and Gregory, K.J., eds., Palaeohydrology and environmental change: New York, Wiley, p.
www.mines.edu /academic/geology/faculty/klee/altai.doc   (4367 words)

  
 Lake Trout Ontario Fishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lake and Brook Trout Fishing in Ontario, Canada.
Lake and Brook trout are abundant in Northwestern Ontario!.
If you are looking for lake trout fishing ontario, you will find it at South Bay Lodge..
www.afishingschool.com /outerbankskittyhawkfishingpi/lake_trout_ontario_fishing.html   (777 words)

  
 RAMBAUD ON THE RUSSIAN SLAVS OF NESTOR THE CHRONICLER
The Slavs, properly so called, inhabited the basin of the Ilmen, and the west bank of Lake Peïpus; their towns, Novgorod, Pskof (Pskov), lzborsk, appear in the very beginning of the history of Russia.
The Krivitches, again, were settled on the sources of the Dwina (Dvina) and the Dnieper, round their city of Smolensk.
The Israelitish Khazars became afterwards mingled with the Kharaite Jews, and the Moslem Khazars with the Tatars of the Crimea.
www.shsu.edu /%7Ehis_ncp/RusNest.html   (2336 words)

  
 Ottawa River Brown Trout Web-Page, Portal And Content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Hepatica, spring beauty, trout lily, bloodroot, asters, daisies, brown eyed susan, viper s bugloss scenes, seasonal paudash lake, ontario ottawa river scenes purdon conservation area, ontario.
The river also has excellent fishing for resident brown trout, lake superior run salmon, and steelhead.
Spring creeks or spring fed lakes will probably require 15 feet of leader.
www.fishing-and-more.info /ottawa-river-brown-trout.html   (1168 words)

  
 Winter Bass Fishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
While the nights are down to 30 degrees, the days are producing decent bass at clear lake.
There's been an afternoon bite and if you can find the fish you have a good chance at those 6 10 pounders that the lake is famous for.
Clear lake is open all year 24 hours a day for fishing.
www.anglingsite.com /info/WinterBassFishing   (1284 words)

  
 Fishing: fishing lake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Officials say two men were fishing on the lake late yesterday afternoon when their 16-foot boat began taking on water.
More than 360 people took part in traditional winter fishing on Chagan Lake in northeastern part of Jilin Province on Tuesday, setting a new record in Guinness...
Four of the vehicles broke through the ice, while at two were surrounded by lake water that...
fishing.sillylife.com /fishing/lake/fishing_lake.html   (716 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The vast grasslands of Songyuan is an important part of Kerqin Prairie and connects with Asia-Europe Prairie, so it is an ideal place to develop animal husbandry.
ChaGan lake, one of the top 10 largest fresh water lakes of China lies in Songyuan too.
The natural resorts of SanJiangkou, ChaGanhu Lake, Huang Yuquan, mud forest etc. are worth visiting and JiangBin park, Forest Park, River Island tour area are under construction.
www.chinarainbow.com /en/tzkf/tzhj1-en.htm   (330 words)

  
 Saltwater Fishing Reals Articles - Saltwater Fishing Reals Data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
For the new lake fly fisher, the current also provides a familiar fishing ally.
Cliffs will trap poor flying terrestrials time and again, sending these errant flyers down into the lake, where schools of fish are apt to be waiting.
Lake fishing with a fly can seem daunting to the newcomer.
www.fishing-and-more.info /saltwater-fishing-reals.html   (1204 words)

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