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The unique red rock buttes often show up in movies, calendars and magazines.
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Towering buttes shoot out of waving prairie grasses.
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Teams should be much more aggressive in calling bluffs from agents in situations like this.
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The Pacific Coast Highway is one of America’s most scenic drives, with stunning bluffs and designated vista points featuring sparkling ocean views.
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Although Chicago had its issues with redlining and massive disinvestment that left generational scars on some primarily Black neighborhoods, the small town ethos held little sway over me.
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Adding these impacts to the early Earth’s heat budget, though, proved rather challenging because Earth has a peculiar way of healing its scars.
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Coley learns that Sonya is on the precipice of leaving for dance camp — something that will separate them for the rest of the summer — which Sonya has neglected to mention before now.
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An awareness of cultural shifts on the precipice — how to harness it all whilst not losing her own identity.
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Whenever someone reaches the top of the 25-meter (82-feet) cliff — often for the first time — spectators, instructors and climbers break into applause.
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Every twenty minutes cliff divers, costumed characters, and magicians put on performances and interact with diners.
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The house sits on a road tucked alongside a steep railroad embankment, where tracks carry rumbling trains to a rail yard in the village of fewer than 1,000 residents.
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The house where the children were found sits on a road tucked away alongside a steep railroad embankment, where tracks carry rumbling trains through Hamden.
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Built around a towering sandstone escarpment that rises through the centre of the property, surrounded by a deliciously cold pool, the architecture was conceived in careful negotiation with the landscape.
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The tents are perched on top of escarpment with views of the TK below.
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But, typical of Hockney portraiture, the resulting drawings magnificently captured every crag in Auden’s impossibly craggy face.
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Recommendations The Storr, a hill known for its peculiar crags, is one of Scotland’s most popular destinations.
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“Tor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tor. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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