The Valley of Ghosts
The Valley of Ghosts may refer to:
Valley of the Queens
The Valley of the Queens is a site in Egypt, where the wives of pharaohs were buried in ancient times.
It was known then as Ta- Set- Neferu, meaning" the place of beauty".
It was most famous for being the burrial site of many wives of Pharaohs.
Pharaohs themselves were burried in The Valley of the Kings.
Using the limits described by Christian Leblanc, the Valley of the Queens consists of the main wadi, which contains most of the tombs, along with the Valley of Prince Ahmose, the Valley of the Rope, the Valley of the Three Pits, and the Valley of the Dolmen.
The main wadi contains 91 tombs and the subsidiary valleys add another 19 tombs.
The burials in the subsidiary valleys all date to the 18th Dynasty.
The reason for choosing the Valley of the Queens as a burial site is not known.
The close proximity to the workers' village of Deir el- Medina and the Valley of the Kings may have been a factor.
Another consideration could have been the existence of a sacred grotto dedicated to Hathor at the entrance of the Valley.
This grotto may have been associated with rejuvenation of the dead.
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer is a 1956 American western adventure film co-produced and directed by Albert C. Gannaway and Ismael Rodríguez and starring Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr. and Faron Young.
The film was shot in Trucolor in Mexico.
It was released by Republic Pictures at the height of the" Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier" craze.
The Valley of Gwangi
The Valley of Gwangi is a 1969 American western fantasy film, produced by Charles H. Schneer and Ray Harryhausen, directed by Jim O'Connolly, written by William Bast, and starring James Franciscus, Richard Carlson, and Gila Golan.
Creature stop-motion effects were by Harryhausen, the last dinosaur- themed film that he animated.
He had inherited the film project from his mentor Willis O'Brien, responsible for the effects in the original" King Kong"( 1933).
O'Brien had planned to make" The Valley of Gwangi" decades earlier but died in 1962 before it could be realized.
Valley of Mexico
The Valley of Mexico is a highlands plateau in central Mexico roughly coterminous with present- day Mexico City and the eastern half of the State of Mexico.
Surrounded by mountains and volcanoes, the Valley of Mexico was a centre for several pre-Columbian civilizations, including Teotihuacan, the Toltec, and the Aztec.
The ancient Aztec term" Anahuac( Land Between the Waters)" and the phrase Basin of Mexico are both used at times to refer to the Valley of Mexico.
The Basin of Mexico became a well known site that epitomized the scene of early Classic Mesoamerican cultural development as well.
The Valley of Mexico is located in the Trans- Mexican Volcanic Belt.
The valley contains most of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, as well as parts of the State of Mexico, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala and Puebla.
The Valley of Mexico can be subdivided into four basins, but the largest and most-studied is the area which contains Mexico City.
This section of the valley in particular is colloquially referred to as the" Valley of Mexico".
The valley has a minimum elevation of above sea level and is surrounded by mountains and volcanoes that reach elevations of over.
It is an enclosed valley with no natural outlet for water to flow and a gap to the north where there is a high mesa but no high mountain peaks.
Within this vulnerable watershed all the native fishes were extinct by the end of the 20th century.
Hydrologically, the valley has three features.
The first feature is the lakebeds of five now- extinct lakes, which are located in the southernmost and largest of the four sub-basins.
The other two features are piedmont, and the mountainsides that collect the precipitation that eventually flows to the lake area.
These last two are found in all four of the sub- basins of the valley.
Today, the Valley drains through a series of artificial canals to the Tula River, and eventually the Pánuco River and the Gulf of Mexico.
Seismic activity is frequent here, and the valley is considered an earthquake- prone zone.
The valley has been inhabited for at least 12,000 years, attracting humans with its mild climate( average temperatures between 12 and 15 ° C, or 54 and 59 ° F), abundant game and ability to support large- scale agriculture.
Civilizations that have arisen in this area include the Teotihuacan( 800 BC to 800 AD) the Toltec Empire( 10th to 13th century) and the Aztec Empire( 1325 to 1521).
When the Spaniards arrived in the Valley of Mexico, it had one of the highest population concentrations in the world with about one million people.
After the Conquest, the Spaniards rebuilt the largest and most dominant city here, Tenochtitlan, renaming it Mexico City.
The valley used to contain five lakes called Lake Zumpango, Lake Xaltocan, Lake Xochimilco, Lake Chalco, and the largest, Texcoco covering about of the valley floor, but as the Spaniards expanded Mexico City, they began to drain the lakes' waters to control flooding.
Although violence and disease significantly lowered the population of the valley after the Conquest, by 1900 it was again over one million people.
The 20th and 21st centuries have seen an explosion of population in the valley along with the growth of industry.
Since 1900, the population has doubled every fifteen years.
Today, around 21 million people live in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area which extends throughout almost all of the valley into the states of Mexico and Hidalgo.
The growth of a major urban, industrial centre in an enclosed basin has created significant air and water quality issues for the valley.
Wind patterns and thermal inversions trap contaminants in the valley.
Over-extraction of ground water has caused new flooding problems for the city as it sinks below the historic lake floor.
This causes stress on the valley's drainage system, requiring new tunnels and canals to be built.
Trail Blazer (train)
The Trail Blazer was a deluxe all-coach train, inaugurated between New York and Chicago via Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 17:25 schedule operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The "Trail Blazer" was one of the first all-coach trains (along with the Santa Fe's "El Capitan") to provide premium services comparable to a Pullman train.
The "Trail Blazer" was name first used for East St. Louis-Pittsburgh preferred freight VL-6 in 1927.
Two days before service began, the "Trail Blazer" equipment, including streamlined P70's, twin-unit diner, and observation designed by Raymond Loewy, were exhibited at Penn Station, made press runs to Philadelphia, and returned to New York on July 28 after display at Philadelphia.
On July 28, 1939, service officially began, and was an immediate success.
On July 29, 1939, the first eastbound "Trail Blazer" arrived at New York World's Fair for a special ceremony.
Eastbound trips continued to run direct to the Fair.
According to LIFE magazine, reservations were made as far as 6 weeks in advance during the first month of service.
The PRR felt very pleased with the performance of this new coach-only train.
Instead of the eight-car consist originally planned, the train had to carry an average of ten.
The number of passengers on the "Trail Blazer" frequently exceeded those of Pennsylvania's better-known train, the "Broadway Limited" and PRR's rival, New York Central's coach-only "Pacemaker".
New York Central's "Pacemaker" offered identical service and schedule but with ordinary heavyweight equipment inaugurated on same day.
The "Trail Blazer" carried about 132,000 passengers in the first year and 175,000 in the second.
In 1940-41 it sometimes operated in second and third sections.
Historical photographic and films evidences showing that PRR S1 #6100 "
The Big Engine" was the preferred engine of this popular, highly profitable (It carried 35 times more passengers than Broadway Limited in 1939, gross revenue equal to $2,260,000 in 1940 or $ today).
The "Trail Blazer" was one of the longest and heaviest passenger train (more than 1000 tons) during the heyday of PRR's passenger services in the early 40s.
Besides PRR S1 #6100, streamlined K4s, PRR S2 direct-drive steam turbine engine #6200, and PRR T1 were assigned to haul the train occasionally.
In 1948, PRR re-equipped the "Trail Blazer" with new EMD E8 Diesel engines, new lightweight P85b 44-seat coaches and new twin-unit dining car built by PRR's own shop and ACF.
In 1951, due to rapidly declining demand, the Pennsylvania combined the "Trail Blazer" and "General" into one service.
However, their timetable continued to distinguish the two trains until July 26, 1959, when PRR removed the name "Trail Blazer"
Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Movie 2: Attack of the Mecha-Vulcan
Discotek Media released both movies on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time in North America on March 27, 2018.
Daniel Boone High School
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Daniel Boone Hotel
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Valley of the Shadow (disambiguation)
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Question: Are both movies, Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer and The Valley of Gwangi, from the same country?
Answer: yes