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	S-Cool! - GCSE Geography Revision - Quicklearn
		“Honeypot” sites, such as Hay Tor, attract a disproportionate amount of visitors, creating problems of parking, footpath erosion and littering.
		The NPA has had to try to encourage people to go to other equally spectacular tors to try to take the pressure off the Hay Tor area.
		All that is being attempted in Belize is building towards the goal of continuing to benefit from tourism, whilst protecting and nurturing the natural environment.
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	Tor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tor (geography), a high craggy hill, particularly those found on Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor in South-West England
		Tor (port), a port on the Sinai Peninsula
		Tor Johnson (1903–1971), a Swedish-born professional wrestler and actor who gained cult fame by appearing in B-movies
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tor (203 words)

	Data and Maps
		Address: Centre for China Urban and Regional Studies, c/o Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
		Ng Tor Tai International House, Hong Kong Baptist University,@ HKD330 (equivalent to USD42.5) per night per room.
		This is an international conference on urban change and state reorganization in China.
	mumford.cas.albany.edu /chinanet/News_files/hkbaptistuniv.htm (583 words)

	AllRefer.com - TorreOn, Mexico (Mexican Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - TorreOn, Mexico (Mexican Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Mexican Political Geography > TorreOn
		TorreOn [tOr A O n´] Pronunciation Key, city (1990 pop.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Torreon.html (583 words)

	AllRefer.com - Porto Torres, Italy (Italian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Porto Torres, Italy (Italian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Italian Political Geography > Porto Torres
		Porto Torres[pOr´tO tOr´res] Pronunciation Key, town, NW Sardinia, Italy, at the mouth of the Mannu River.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/PortoTor.html (173 words)

	Paradigm, No. 20 (July, 1996)
		Later in the course, the student would study condensed treatises on subjects such as history, geography and science, and only later still would he or she tackle the literature.
		reformers such as the Norwegian linguist Johan Storm and the German educationalists Wilhelm Viëtor and Hermann Klinghardt argued for a return to the spoken language and a new emphasis on ‘connected texts’ rather than learning grammar rules.
		Viëtor, Wilhelm [pseudonym: Quousque Tandem], Der Sprachunterricht muB umkehren!
	w4.ed.uiuc.edu /faculty/westbury/Paradigm/atherton.html (5653 words)

	ARTS
		TEILLET, Philippe, BSc(Ott.), MSc(Tor.), PhD(Ott.), remote sensing and optical sensors calibration (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)
		NEEDHAM, Roger, BA(UWO), MA(ibid.), PhD(Wat.), Associate Professor, natural resources, international environmental programmes, water policy, management, mass media and environmental education and socio-economic geography
		ROBERGE, Roger A., BA(Assumption College), MA(Clark), PhD(ibid.), Associate Professor, economic geography, regional development, Latin America, project evaluation, transportation, risk analysis
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/info/newsletter/crs/0203/artsEN/arts-eng18.htm (5653 words)

	Geography Recent publications
		LEWKOWICZ, A.G. 2001 "Temperature regime of a small sandstone tor, latitude 80°N, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut" Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 12(4), 351-366
		________ and ²FRAPPIER, M. 2001 " Postglacial environmental history from Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut, Canada" Boreas 30, 485-489
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/geography/research/publications.htm (5653 words)

	Yorvit Torrealba - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Yorvit Torrealba [yor-VEET tor-ray-AHL-bah] (born April 19, 1978 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball catcher and right-handed batter who plays for the San Francisco Giants.
		Torrealba has shown some potential, but when Benito Santiago left via free agency in 2003, the Giants opted to trade for A.J. Pierzynski rather than test the 26-year-old as a full-time player.
		In four-season career, Torrealba is a.256 hitter with 12 home runs and 68 RBI in 186 games.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Yorvit_Torrealba (191 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bandar-e Torkaman, Iran (Iranian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Iranian Political Geography > Bandar-e Torkaman
		Bandar-e Torkaman[bAn´dAr-A tOr´´kAmAn´] Pronunciation Key town (1991 pop.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Bandar-e Torkaman
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BandareT.html (191 words)

	Natural Selection: subject gateway to the natural world
		This page gives access to Atlas of Missouri Vascular Plants, prepared by Wallace R. Weber and William T. Corcoran of the Departments of Biology and Geography at Southwestern Missouri State University and edited and revised by SMSU herbarium staff.
		The list was last updated in January 1997 by Einar Timdal and Tor Tønsberg.
		The list is the result of work by John Hendricks, Ken Hill, Roy Osborne and Dennis Stevenson over the past two decades and was originally published in print in the Journal of The Cycad Society of South Africa, in 1985.
	nature.ac.uk /browse/581.9.html (10120 words)

	King Arthur: The Places
		It has never been positively placed in the geography, but the good folks in Glastonbury would have you believe that Glastonbury Tor, which was an island centuries ago, was Avalon.
		This forest is also said to be the place where a mad Merlin took refuge.
		Cunomorus, a leader in the 6th century, is thought to be the basis for both King Mark and Mordred.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/kingarthurplaces.html (1241 words)

	Fell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In geography a fell is a treeless mountain landscape that has been shaped by glacier ice earlier in history.
		Fell comes from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, whereas the words hill, down, or tor, used in the South, have their roots in Old English or Celtic.
		It is the name used in the North of England for a large hill or small mountain, especially in the Lake District, made famous by the Victorian era poet laureate William Wordsworth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fell (1241 words)

	Fell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In geography, a fell is a treeless mountain landscape that has been shaped by glacier ice earlier in history.
		Fell comes from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings (in Norwegian the word Fjell means mountain) whereas the words hill, down, or tor, used in the South, have their roots in Old English or Celtic.
		It is the name used in the North of England for a large hill or small mountain, especially in the Lake District, made famous by the Victorian era Poet Laureate William Wordsworth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fell (168 words)

	King Arthur: The Places
		It has never been positively placed in the geography, but the good folks in Glastonbury would have you believe that Glastonbury Tor, which was an island centuries ago, was Avalon.
		It is the last of Arthur's 12 victories, but its exact location has not been determined.
		As with Badon Hill, the location has yet to be conclusively proven.
	geocities.com /CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/kingarthurplaces.html (168 words)

	King Arthur: The Places
		It has never been positively placed in the geography, but the good folks in Glastonbury would have you believe that Glastonbury Tor, which was an island centuries ago, was Avalon.
		As with Badon Hill, the location has yet to be conclusively proven.
		Also thought to be the hill wherein Merlin made his name famous by seeing the Red and White Dragons.
	geocities.com /CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/kingarthurplaces.html (168 words)

	Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) Filming Locations
		hen Lola crosses the Spree, she uses the quaintly turretted and covered Oberbaumbrücke in the far east of the city, a pre-Wende crossing point into East Berlin (U-bahn: Schlesisches Tor or U-bahn-S-bahn: Warschauer Strasse).
		Tykwer, though, plays fast and loose with the geography of the city, where the film is set.
		Lola is supposed to cross the city but, in fact, flits about all over central Berlin, from her apartment (which you'll find not far from the Berliner Ensemble theatre) to the museum, which stood in for the casino, where the movie climaxes).
	www.movie-locations.com /movies/l/lola.html (168 words)

	King Arthur: The Places
		It has never been positively placed in the geography, but the good folks in Glastonbury would have you believe that Glastonbury Tor, which was an island centuries ago, was Avalon.
		This forest is also said to be the place where a mad Merlin took refuge.
		Cunomorus, a leader in the 6th century, is thought to be the basis for both King Mark and Mordred.
	geocities.com /CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/kingarthurplaces.html (168 words)

	King Arthur: The Places
		It has never been positively placed in the geography, but the good folks in Glastonbury would have you believe that Glastonbury Tor, which was an island centuries ago, was Avalon.
		Lincolnshire: Anglian area containing the River Glen and Lindsey, thought to be the sites of Arthur's second through sixth battles.
		This forest is also said to be the place where a mad Merlin took refuge.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/kingarthurplaces.html (1241 words)

	IF YOU LIKE THIS page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
		David Hartwell [Age of Wonders, New York: Walker, 1984, p.14] summarizes this genre as "Tolkienesque fantasy, in the manner of Lord of the Rings -- carefully constructed worlds as the setting for a heroic quest." Here we mean tales of a world sufficient unto itself, with its own history, geography, cultures, races, and nonhuman beings.
		Walter John Williams' "Voice of the Whirlwind" [Tor, 1987]
		The book "All Judgment Fled", by James White, [All Judgment Fled, James White, New York: Walker, 1969] is a novel of first contact by human astronauts who board an extraterrestrial spaceship which has entered the solar system, and is in orbit near Jupiter.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/thisthat.html (1241 words)

	King Arthur: The Places
		It has never been positively placed in the geography, but the good folks in Glastonbury would have you believe that Glastonbury Tor, which was an island centuries ago, was Avalon.
		This forest is also said to be the place where a mad Merlin took refuge.
		Cunomorus, a leader in the 6th century, is thought to be the basis for both King Mark and Mordred.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/kingarthurplaces.html (1241 words)

	`Dragonmount` Wheel of Time News
		Knife of Dreams comes in at #7 on Amazon.com's Best of 2005 Editors' Top 10 Picks for Fantasy and Science Fiction.
		The chapter summaries and many of the ancillary files are done but we still have some work to do on the Characters and Geography sections.
		George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows (Bantam, $28) made its debut at No. 2 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list last week; Robert Jordan's Knife of Dreams (Tor, $29.95) opened at No. 2 a week after its Oct. 11 publication.
	irc.dragonmount.com /News (1463 words)

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