Known for its salmon runs in the spring

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As for the foreign fur traders, he conceived the brilliant plan of buying food from them in exchange for Russian furs and of supplying them with brigades of Aleut Island hunters to scour the Pacific for sea-otter from Nootka and the Columbia to southern California.

Pasternak answered, and both of his hosts remembered that he was professor of anesthesiology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

APRON OVER AN OLD SHIRT AND washed-out chinos, James Jesus Angleton was sweeping the aisles of the greenhouse he had recently installed in the back yard of his suburban Arlington house, across the Potomac from the District of Columbia and the Pickle Factory on the Reflecting Pool.

Hence an act granting a right of appeal from the Commission to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is not unconstitutional as conferring executive power upon a judicial body.

Off the Baluchi coast the nuclear sub USS Columbia would open her hatches to emit a single Tomahawk cruise missile.

The Mysterious Safari of Charles Bedaux It is not possible to contemplate the long list of luxuries that Charles Bedaux insisted on taking into the bush of British Columbia in the summer of 1934 without a small tingle of admiration.

Because the new president of Columbia, Lee Bollinger, may well be the most liberal major college president in America, and in his earlier job as president of the University of Michigan, he instituted the most aggressive affirmative action program anywhere.

In 1502 the globe was at last girdled with submarine cables when a line was run from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Australia and New Zealand.

This first patch of cheatgrass was in southern British Columbia, Canada, in 1889.

It is one of our best jokes between us when we recount the enjoyment of our successful concerts given in California, Oregon and British Columbia.

Thus British Columbia comprises practically the entire width of what has been termed the Cordillera or Cordilleran belt of North America, between the parallels of latitude above indicated.

Glacial period British Columbia was covered by the Cordilleran glacier, which moved south-eastwards and north-westwards, in correspondence with the ruling features of the country, from a gathering-ground situated in the vicinity of the 57th parallel.

One of the most recent comes from Canada where a group of out-doorsmen on the Cowichan River in British Columbia watched a low-flying object in October 1973.

Canada where a group of out-doorsmen on the Cowichan River in British Columbia watched a low-flying object in October 1973.

This location, I write, thirty feet above the floor of the gallery, might account for the almost perfect condition of this rose, found on one of the oldest crypts in one of the original wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum.