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	Promontory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A promontory is a prominent mass of land which overlooks lower laying land or a body of water (example: Crown Point, Oregon).
		Especially: (a) the projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra ; (b) a prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.
		Wilsons Promontory National Park Combines details on all accommodation, food outlets, scenic areas and activities within the South Gippsland - Wilsons Promontory.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Promontory.html (343 words)

	Promontory Point Park in Chicago, Illinois.
		Promontory Point is an historic landscape and the focal point of Chicago's Burnham Park at the Eastern boundary of Hyde Park.
		Caldwell began by adding soil to the Promontory, raising the meadow to its present height and creating a hill where a shelter would be built.
		The Chicago park district and the public realize the place of Promontory Point in Chicago's past and are working together to restore it for future generations.
	www.hydeparkhistory.org /parks.html (266 words)

	EducationPage
		Any discussion of the Promontory community must first come to some satisfactory conclusion as to where and what is "Promontory." On the map, Promontory is the name given to a range of mountains that runs from the Utah-Idaho border country south, eventually extending into the Great Salt Lake to form a 30 mile-long peninsula.
		Promontory was the affirmation of national greatness, not to mention the repository of that democratic raucousness that was already part of Western Myth.
		Promontory Station was essentially a railroad work camp, however it did serve as the commercial center and focal point of the surrounding rural community.
	www.nps.gov /gosp/research/promontory_hist.htm (10884 words)

	Wilsons Promontory National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wilsons Promontory is a national park in Victoria (Australia), 157 km southeast of Melbourne.
		It covers the southern portion of Wilsons Promontory, a narrow peninsula containing the southernmost point on the Australian mainland.
		The area is often known as "the Prom" or "Wilsons Prom".
	www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/w/wi/wilsons_promontory_national_park.html (86 words)

	Encyclopedia: Promontory Summit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Promontory Summit achieved note as the location where the United States first Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, with the driving of the Golden Spike, joining the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
		Promontory was the site of a temporary city during and shortly after the construction of the railroad, but this was then dismantled, and since then Promontory has had no permanent population.
		Important note: This place is sometimes called Promontory Point, which is, however, a different location at the southern tip of a peninsula in the Great Salt Lake.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Promontory-Summit (187 words)

	NPS Historical Handbook: Golden Spike
		A gang of cutthroat gamblers and confidence men called the "Promontory Boys" set up headquarters and were "thicker than hypocrites at a camp meeting of frogs after a shower." Their modus operandi was to put "cappers" aboard the trains at Kelton or Corinne to gain the confidence of passengers.
		At Promontory the cappers led their victims to one of the gambling tents and into the clutches of the Promontory Boys.
		Promontory's life as a "hell on wheels" boomtown was a short but lively one.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/40/hh40r.htm (830 words)

	EducationPage
		The town of Promontory developed slowly when compared with its earlier "Hell on Wheels" predecessors, even though the Summit area as a meeting point for the transcontinental railroad had been established as early as April 9, 1869.
		The slow germination of Promontory is no indication of the lack of human habitation in the Summit area, however.
		But Promontory did grow, and the best sources on this birth and development are the photographs taken on May 9 and 10 by Andrew J. Russell and Alfred A. Hart, Union Pacific and Central Pacific commissioned photographers respectively, as well as the shots taken by C.R. Savage.
	www.nps.gov /gosp/research/promontory_tents.html (1159 words)

	Wilsons Promontory
		Wilsons Promontory, also known as "The Prom" is the furthest southern point of Australian mainland.
		Wilsons Promontory is situated 200 km south-east from Melbourne, and it is a surprisingly wild area, there is only one public road to the Tidal River township.
		Wilsons Promontory is famous for its bushwalking paths, beautiful mountain and beach views and wildlife.
	www.ozshots.com /20040207_The_Prom (213 words)

	Promontory fort - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dunbeg, promontory fort on Mount Eagle, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, Ireland
		Promontory forts are defensive structures located above a steep cliff, often only connected to the mainland by a small neck of land, thus utilizing the topography to reduce the ramparts needed.
		Only a few promontory forts have been excavated, therefore their dating is problematic.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Promontory_fort (126 words)

	Promontory Resident For Truth
		Like the narrow-minded and belligerent representatives of the sports groups that malign the Promontory residents in the public park workshops and CSD board meetings, this letter was obviously written by a misinformed resident that is more comfortable throwing verbal bombs and running than investing the time to truly understand the issues surrounding the Promontory Park.
		Promontory residents were slated to the show the Davis Playfields Park video during the public comments portion of the CSD's monthly board meeting on October 14th but were hastily removed from the agenda just hours before the meeting started.
		Furthermore, every Promontory resident that has spoke at the public workshops (at least the workshops that we were invited to) started by saying that they support the park and youth sports.
	promontorypark.blogspot.com (9146 words)

	Walkabout - Wilsons Promontory
		The promontory is in fact one of the highest points on a batholith (a huge igneous rock deposit) which is 300-km long and, at times, 50-km wide and which links Tasmania to the rest of Australia.
		The Yanakie Isthmus, a sandy bar connecting the promontory to the mainland, was added to the park in the 1960s on condition that the seasonal grazing which began in 1852 be allowed to continue.
		The promontory functions as a feeding ground for international migratory birds and includes endangered species such as the ground and orange-bellied parrots.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/VICWilsonsPromontory.shtml (1199 words)

	Box Elder County Cities - Promontory
		Presently located at the north end of the Great Sale Lake, Promontory is an arm of land jetting southward into the lake, thus the name Promontory.
		Promontory is approximately 40 miles long and varying in width.
		A shortcut was built across the lake in 1903 by the railroad, and consequently, the Promontory Station was deserted.
	www.boxelder.org /tourism/cities/promontory.html (695 words)

	Promontory Utah and the Nation's railway uniting
		The historic events in Promontory, Utah when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads met to unite the nation with the first transcontinental railroad.
		The fanfare revolving around the meeting of the railroads at Promontory, Utah was equivalent to the public reaction to the Moon landing of a hundred years later in 1969.
		As the gap between the two railroads narrowed, it was apparent that the historic meeting would occur at the Promontory Point area of Utah which was in a level circular valley of about three miles diameter and surrounded by mountains.
	mo.essortment.com /promontory_raic.htm (806 words)

	Promontory Point: The Transcontinental Railroad and the Coming Linguistic User Interface
		I'm sure the uniting of the world's continents via the ARPAnet (in the 1980s?) and via the modern graphical internet (1990s) was celebrated by a number of technical elite, but it didn't make the radar screen of the average first-world citizen.
		It may be true that the major third-world advantages of this massive new construction project won't be realized until after the conversational user interface arrives, when any curious human mind, regardless of background or resources, will be increasingly able to make use of the system as an educational, communication, and collective produtivity tool.
		Promontory Point can be defined and worked toward with increasing hope, energy, and excitement every year.
	www.singularitywatch.com /promontorypoint.html (3919 words)

	Promontory Asset Finance Company, LLC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Promontory Financial Group, LLC ("Promontory"), is a leading investment and advisory firm focused on the financial services sector.
		Promontory includes former principals and senior staff from the three federal banking agencies as well as skilled professionals with hands-on experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, hedge fund investing and business restructuring
		Promontory Asset Finance Company, LLC is an affiliate of the Promontory Group, LLC.
	promontoryfg.net /PAFC/about.htm (384 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia
		On 10 May 1869 from Promontory Summit northwest of Ogden, Utah, a single telegraphed word, "done," signaled to the nation the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
		For several weeks Promontory continued to be a town of tents and crude shacks.
		In 1942 the old rails over the 123-mile Promontory Summit line were salvaged for war efforts in ceremonies marking the "Undriving of the Golden Spike." Artifact hunters picked over the area for ties and materials.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/g/GOLDENSPIKE.html (942 words)

	NPS Historical Handbook: Golden Spike
		Built in the valley near where the lines commence the ascent of the Promontory, it is nearly surrounded by grading camps, Benson, Farr and West's headquarters a mile or two south west.
		Sharp and Young's [Union Pacific] blasters are jarring the earth every few minutes with their glycerine and powder, lifting whole ledges of limestone rock from their long resting places, hurling them hundreds of feet in the air and scattering them around for a half mile in every direction.
		The proximity of the earth-work and blasting to each other, at these and other points along the Promontory line, requires the utmost care and vigilance on the part of all concerned, else serious if not fatal, consequences would be of frequent occurrence.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/40/hh40o.htm (2015 words)

	Save The Point! - Promontory Point Community Task Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Promontory Point is a peninsula of land jutting out into Lake Michigan in Chicago at 55th Street.
		This unique park is threatened by the current plans of the Chicago Park District to encase it in a concrete and steel seawall, as well as by encroachment from portions of the South Lake Shore Drive reconstruction project.
		Besides Promontory Point, particular endangered areas are from Belmont to Fullerton, at the half-gone 57th Street Beach, and now most recently at Monroe Harbor.
	www.savethepoint.org (528 words)

	Luxury Private Golf Clubs - Promontory The Ranch Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Promontory’s private golf club community members will enjoy the Pete Dye Canyon Golf Trail (opening Summer 2002) and the Jack Nicklaus Valley Golf Trail (tentative 2006 opening).
		Up to three additional golf courses may be added in the future depending on the demand for memberships in the luxury private golf club community.
		At Promontory, he has been given a breathtaking site — Painted Valley — and the freedom to design the most enjoyable mountain golf experience found anywhere.
	www.promontoryclub.com /promo/luxury_private_golf_clubs.html (179 words)

	Wilsons Promontory
		It is believed Wilsons Promontory was once part of a "land bridge" connecting the mainland with Tasmania.
		The Aborigines who once lived here were members of the Boon-Oor-Rong tribe and their middens are still evident on the western side of the promontory.
		There’s no public transport to Wilsons Promontory; the nearest you can get to it is with the evening V/Line bus from Dandenong, which will take you as far as Foster on the South Gippsland Highway.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/victoria/wilsonsprom.asp (1635 words)

	Promontory Point in Chicago's Burnham Park
		General information on Promontory Point staffing and advisory council is in the Parks Website Home page, Advisory Councils, and Directory of Parks in the Hyde Park-Kenwood Area.
		Promontory Point's revetment is a common place for tours and investigations of local geology, deep history, and natural history.
		Promontory Point was the focus of the only council for many years in all of Burnham Park.
	www.hydepark.org /parks/point/prompointpark.htm (3767 words)

	Search Results for promontory - Encyclopædia Britannica
		promontory on the south coast of the county of Kent, England.
		It is a bleak triangle of shingle (gravel), projecting southeastward into the English Channel where it narrows to the north into the...
		It is separated from Marsamxett harbour by Mount Sceberras, a rocky promontory on which Valletta, Malta's capital, is built.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=promontory&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (391 words)

	The Chinese at Promontory, Utah, April 30 - May 10, 1869
		The Central Pacific had completed laying track to Mile Post 690 at Promontory on April 30th, 1869 and Superintendent J.H. Strobridge moved his camps back to Victory away from the bars, gambling tables and violence that was prevalent in the new town of Promontory.
		The Union Pacific track forces were still twelve miles from Promontory, held up by the 485' long "Big Trestle" and the long rock cut located a few miles east of the junction point.
		They were part of the track crew that had been planned to lay a permanent siding and claim Promontory as the Central Pacific terminus however the U.P. had worked all night and beat the C.P. to that claim.
	cprr.org /Museum/Chinese_at_Promontory_ETS.html (955 words)

	The Australian: End of Promontory fire in sight [April 16, 2005] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Firefighters are building control lines completely by hand due to the difficulty of the Wilsons Promontory terrain and are being flown in to the affected areas," he said.
		The fire flared out of control at the start of the state's school holidays on April 2 when strong winds fanned the flames of a fuel reduction burnoff.
		Wilsons Promontory National Park, one of the nation's oldest reserves, is the southernmost point on the Australian mainland.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,12876694%255E1702,00.html (275 words)

	Travel Golf: Promontory - The Ranch Club, Utah.
		Promontory is a family area and they didn’t want a course that was impossible for some people to play.”
		Work is underway on the Promontory Equestrian Center, the Kinnikinnick Cabin for children, and the Ranch House, which will have facilities for tennis, swimming and ice skating, plus a full-service fitness center and spa.
		The back nine plays through scenic mountain canyons and meadows at the highest elevations of Promontory, 80% of which is an open-land conservancy, where moose, elk, deer and bobcat roam.
	www.travelgolf.com /departments/coursereviews/utah/promontory-ranch-club.htm (1863 words)

	Promontory Point, Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Promontory Point is a locale in southern Box Elder County Utah centered approximately at 41°13'20"N 112°24'38"W with elevation of 1285 meters (4217 feet) above sea level.
		[1] (http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.GetDetail?tab=Yandid=1431484) It is located on a promontory (peninsula) in the northern part of the Great Salt Lake.
		Promontory Point is also the cape where this place is located centered at 41°12'18"N 112°25'43"W with an elevation of 1309 meters (4297 feet) above sea level.
	www.freeglossary.com /Promontory_Point,_Utah (224 words)

	Wilsons Promontory @ ExplorOz
		A weekender from Melbourne, Wilson Promontory reminded us of a slice of Tasmania and has a lot to attract the nature and beach lover.
		The southernmost point of the Australian mainland, Wilsons Promontory is one of the most popular national parks in Victoria.
		Wilsons Promontory is famous for its granite mountains and pristine beaches.
	www.exploroz.com /TrekNotes/EastVic/Wilsons_Promontory.asp (1164 words)

	Promontory Ridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1869, the completion of the nation's first Transcontinental Railroad was celebrated at Promontory Point, Utah with a commemorative golden spike.
		Our vision is that Promontory Ridge will be a place that brings families together, build friendships and allows a true sense of community to flourish.
		The intention is to protect views and ensure that the built environment at Promontory Ridge blends with the natural one, rather than obscuring it.
	www.promontoryridge.net /amenities.asp (241 words)

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