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  2. Salmon River (Idaho) - Wikipedia

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    The Salmon River, also known as " The River of No Return ", is a river located in the U.S. state of Idaho in the western United States. It flows for 425 miles (685 km) through central Idaho, draining a rugged, thinly populated watershed of 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2 ). The river drops more than 7,000 feet (2,100 m) from its headwaters ...

  3. Frank Church–River of No Return Wilderness - Wikipedia

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    The Frank Church—River of No Return Wilderness Area is a protected wilderness area in Idaho. [2] It was created in 1980 by the United States Congress and renamed in 1984 as the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area in honor of U.S. Senator Frank Church . At 2.367 million acres (9,580 km 2 ), it is the largest contiguous federally ...

  4. River of No Return - Wikipedia

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    River of No Return is a 1954 American Western musical film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. The screenplay by Frank Fenton is based on a story by Louis Lantz, who borrowed his premise from the 1948 Italian film Bicycle Thieves. [4] The picture was shot on location in the Canadian Rockies in Technicolor ...

  5. Crossing the Rubicon - Wikipedia

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    The modern Rubicon river (dark blue), believed to be the same river crossed by Caesar. The phrase " crossing the Rubicon " is an idiom that means "passing a point of no return ". [ 1] Its meaning comes from allusion to the crossing of the river Rubicon by Julius Caesar in early January 49 BC. The exact date is unknown. [ 2]

  6. Salmon run - Wikipedia

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    A salmon run is an annual fish migration event where many salmonid species, which are typically hatched in fresh water and live most of the adult life downstream in the ocean, swim back against the stream to the upper reaches of rivers to spawn on the gravel beds of small creeks. After spawning, all species of Pacific salmon and most Atlantic ...

  7. River Raid - Wikipedia

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    Mode (s) 1-2 players alternating turns. River Raid is a video game developed by Carol Shaw for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1982 by Activision. The player controls a fighter jet over the River of No Return in a raid behind enemy lines. The goal is to navigate the flight by destroying enemy tankers ...

  8. Bow Falls - Wikipedia

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    Bow Falls. /  51.1668861°N 115.5604861°W  / 51.1668861; -115.5604861. Bow Falls is a major waterfall on the Bow River, Alberta just before the junction of it and the Spray River. [1] They are located near the Banff Springs Hotel and golf course on the left-hand side of River Road. The falls are within walking distance of both Banff and ...

  9. Northern Rocky Mountain wolf - Wikipedia

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    The northern Rocky Mountain wolf ( Canis lupus irremotus ), also known as the northern Rocky Mountain timber wolf, [3] is a subspecies of the gray wolf native to the northern Rocky Mountains. It is a light-colored, medium to large-sized subspecies with a narrow, flattened frontal bone. [4] The subspecies was initially listed as Endangered on ...