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Look up: Canyon

  1. Canyon
    Canyon is a city in Randall County Texas, USA
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. canyon
    [n] - (North America) a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. canyon
    a deep gorge or ravine with steep sides,at the bottom of which a river flows Category: The cosmos
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Canyon
    Can'yon noun The English form of the Spanish word Cañon .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/19

  5. canyon
    canon noun a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. canyon
    a valley with exceptionally steep sides, usually carved by a fast-flowing river that may or may not still be in evidence
    Found on http://www3.newberry.org/k12maps/glossar

  7. Canyon
    A `canyon` (rarely `cañon`) or `gorge` is a deep valley between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river. Most canyons were formed by a process of long-time erosion from a plateau level. The cliffs form because harder rock strata that are resistant to erosion and weathering remain exposed on the valley walls. Canyons are much more common in arid areas than in wetter areas because weathering has a lesser effect in arid zones. Canyon walls...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyon

  8. Canyon
    • (n.) The English form of the Spanish word Ca
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. canyon
    (from the article `alluvial fan`) Alluvial fans border the mountain fronts with the apex of each fan just within a canyon mouth that serves as the outlet for a mountain drainage ... Perhaps the most famous example of a canyon is the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in northern Arizona. The Grand Canyon is about 1.6 km (1 mile) ... ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/18

  10. Canyon
    city, seat (1889) of Randall county, northern Texas, U.S., in the Texas Panhandle, 16 miles (26 km) south of Amarillo, at a point where the Palo Duro ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/18

  11. Canyon
    Canyon is a English boy name. The meaning of the name is `Canyon` The name Canyon doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Canyon seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Cany

  12. Canyon
    Steep-sided valley where depth is considerably greater than width. These features are the result of stream erosion.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo

  13. CANYON
    (1) A deep valley with steep to vertical walls; in karst frequently formed by a river rising on impervious rocks outside the karst area. (2) A deep, elongated cavity cut by running water in the roof or floor of a cave or forming a cave passage.
    Found on http://www.cancaver.ca/docs/glossary.htm

  14. canyon
    Grand Canyon A steep-sided valley formed through erosion by a river of hard rock lying in horizontal strata. The best known example is the Grand Canyon, Arizona.
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi

  15. Canyon
    The first generation of large American SIGINT (signals intelligence) satellites and the first combined ELINT/COMINT satellites. The cover for them was that they were prototype early warning satellites, but they were actually intended to monitor the radio communications of command posts and the staff...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi


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10 November 2009

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On 10 November 1871, David Livingstone, missionary and explorer was `found` by New York Herald reporter Henry Morton Stanley, who greeted him with the famous words `Dr Livingstone, I presume`. Between November 1853 and May 1856 David Livingstone completed a remarkable coast-to-coast journey from Luanda in the west to the mouth of the Zambezi River in the east. It was an epic trip of 4,300 miles and Livingstone became the first European to complete it. Along the way he had discovered a giant waterfall called ‘Mosi-oa-tunya’ (the smoke that thunders). Livingstone named it Victoria Falls after the British monarch. read more

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