The French Alps shootings, known in France as the Chevaline massacre (French: tuerie de Chevaline), were the deaths on 5 September 2012 of three members...
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The Alps (/ælps/) are some of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately 1,200 km (750 mi) across eight Alpine...
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about a woman who visits with friends at their hunting lodge in the Austrian Alps. Left alone while her friends walk to a nearby village, the woman soon discovers...
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Italian invasion of France (redirect from Battle of the Alps)
Italian invasion of France (10–25 June 1940), also called the Battle of the Alps, was the first major Italian engagement of World War II and the last major...
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Kinetta, Dogtooth, and Alps are greatly influenced by his Greek heritage. Similarly, his English-language films The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer...
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Lötschberg Tunnel (category Tunnels in the Alps)
Brig at the northern end of the Simplon Tunnel cutting through the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. Its ends are at the towns of Kandersteg (2 km away) in the...
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US: /bərˈnɑːrd/) is a breed of very large working dog from the Western Alps in Italy and Switzerland. They were originally bred for rescue work by the...
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perpetrator(s) responsible for their disappearances, or a confession to their killings. There are separate lists covering disappearances before 1950 and then...
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line worker and roof-sweeper in Norway, and as a bar manager in the French Alps. He then traveled for four to five months at a time over a period of two...
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Bleiburg repatriations (redirect from Bleiburg killings)
the German Army Group E from the Balkans. The Partisans conducted mass killings of POWs and ethnic Germans after securing control of Serbia. The Communist...
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Mottarone (category Mountains of the Alps)
Mottarone is a mountain in the Western Alps of Piedmont, north-western Italy, with an elevation of 1,492 metres (4,895 ft). It is located between the provinces...
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Mass murder (category Killings by type)
Time: Did the killings occur more or less simultaneously, or did they extend over several days, months, or years? Place: Did the killings occur in a single...
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George Mallory (section The Alps)
Winchester College, where a teacher recruited him for an excursion in the Alps, and he developed a strong natural climbing ability. After graduating from...
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Foibe massacres (redirect from Foibe killings)
the thousands. The first wave of killings is widely regarded as a disorganized, spontaneous series of revenge killings by Slovenes and Croats after twenty...
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The 2008 Iron Alps Complex Fire, also called the Iron/Alps Complex Fire, was a large wildfire complex in Trinity County, California, United States. The...
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Aircraft in fiction (category Articles with dead external links from April 2012)
James Bond film Spectre, Bond pilots a BN-2 Islander through the Austrian Alps to rescue Madeleine Swann from Spectre gang members. In the 1963 epic film...
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Gotthard Road Tunnel (category Tunnels in the Alps)
kilometres (10.5 mi) in length below the St Gotthard Pass, a major pass of the Alps. At time of construction, in 1980, it was the longest road tunnel in the...
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List of Mayday episodes (section Season 12 (2012–13))
Geographic Channel. 20 September 2021. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. "Air Disasters". Smithsonian Channel. Archived from the original on 8 March...
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Lötschberg railway (category Transport in the Alps)
canton of Bern with Brig in the canton of Valais. It crosses the Bernese Alps, from the Bernese Oberland to Upper Valais, through the Lötschberg Tunnel...
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Hispania, sparking the Second Punic War. Hannibal invaded Italy by crossing the Alps with North African war elephants. In his first few years in Italy, as the...
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Williams, Cassie (25 August 2022). "Robert Leroy Anderson: The serial killings that rocked South Dakota in the '90s". Mitchell Daily Republic. Archived...
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Knight and Day (category Films set in the Alps)
discover Feck has gone into hiding, but left Roy a clue that he is in the Alps. They are attacked by henchmen sent by Antonio Quintana, a Spanish arms dealer...
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Washington D.C., Kennedy said: "Even in Hitler's Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you could hide in the attic like Anne Frank did. Today...
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the Jura Mountains, and the rest in the Alps and Pre-Alps. The Eurasian lynx was exterminated in the French Alps in the early 20th century. Following reintroduction...
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trekking practice, including rock climbing in California and the European Alps with his co-star David Thewlis. Pitt had the lead role in 1998's fantasy...
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Neuschwanstein Castle (category Articles with failed verification from September 2012)
19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany, near the border with Austria. It is located...
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to enjoy a year of surfing in Hawaii and France, as well as skiing in the Alps. In 1988, Eckhart returned to the United States and enrolled as a film major...
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is found in either low lying wetlands or at high altitudes. In the Swiss Alps, it may ascend to about 3,000 m (9,800 ft). In Hungary and Russia, it avoids...
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consists of a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily...
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the Italian Peninsula. It inhabits the Apennine Mountains and the Western Alps, though it is undergoing expansion towards the north and east. As of 2022...
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