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Pindamonhangaba, SP. Pindamonhangaba is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, located in the Paraíba Valley, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It is accessible by the Via Dutra (BR-116 – SP-60 highway) at the 99th kilometer.
The Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of the Côa Valley is an open-air Paleolithic archaeological site located in northeastern Portugal, near the border with Spain. In the early 1990s, rock engravings were discovered in Vila Nova de Foz Côa during the construction of a dam in the Côa River valley. They include thousands of engraved rock drawings of ...
Welcome to Night Vale is a satirical science fiction podcast presented as a community radio show in the fictional American desert town of Night Vale, reporting on the strange events that occur within it. The series was created by Joseph Fink, who writes every episode with Jeffrey Cranor, in 2012, and is published by Night Vale Presents.
Maida Vale. / 51.530; -0.186. Maida Vale ( / ˈmeɪdə veɪl / MAY-də vayl) is an affluent residential district in West London, England, north of Paddington, southwest of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn, on the Edgware Road. It is part of the City of Westminster and is 3 miles (5.0 km) north-west of Charing Cross. [3]
Paraíba Valley. The Paraíba Valley ( Portuguese: Vale do Paraíba) is a landform that encompasses the regions: Paraíba Valley Metropolitan Region and Northern Coast, in the state of São Paulo and Sul-Fluminense Region, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, which stands out for concentrating a considerable portion of the Brazilian economy .
Skanda Vale is a non-denominational spiritual centre and monastery located in Carmarthenshire, Wales, near the village of Llanpumsaint. Founded in 1973 by Guru Sri Subramanium, [1] the monastery is inhabited and run by the Community of the Many Names of God, which also runs Somaskanda Ashram in Switzerland .
Pinda (riceball) A man holding Pinda in hand, in Pitri Paksha rituals. Piṇḍas are balls of cooked rice mixed with ghee and black sesame seeds offered to ancestors during Hindu funeral rites ( Antyesti) and ancestor worship ( Śrāddha ). [1] [2] [3] According to traditions in the Garuda Puran, offering a pinda to a recently departed soul ...
Balaenoptera sibbaldii Sars , 1875. The blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of 29.9 meters (98 ft) and weighing up to 199 tonnes (196 long tons; 219 short tons), it is the largest animal known ever to have existed. [3] [a] The blue whale's long and slender body can be of ...