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Valhalla Golf Club Valhalla Golf Club, located in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, is a private golf club designed by professional golfer Jack Nicklaus. The course, which sits on a 486-acre (197 ha) property on Shelbyville Road just outside the Gene Snyder Freeway (Louisville's second bypass), was envisioned by local business leader Dwight Gahm (pronounced "game") and his three sons in 1981, and opened in 1986.
Valhalla High School Valhalla High School is a public, comprehensive high school located in Rancho San Diego, a neighborhood near El Cajon, California, and serves approximately 2,000 students in grades nine through twelve. Opened in 1974, Valhalla is the tenth of twelve high schools established by the Grossmont Union High School District.
Valhalla Partners Valhalla Partners, based in Vienna, Virginia, is a venture capital firm which seeks to build world-class technology companies. Valhalla assists the companies it invests in by offering both seasoned advice and best practices which have been developed over the last twenty years.
Valia Kakouti Valia Kakouti, (Greek: Βάλια Κακούτη) born 1981 in Athens, won the Miss Star Hellas 2004 title and was chosen to represent Greece at the Miss Universe 2004 pageant held in Quito, Ecador. Valia was one of the stars of the preliminary competition and she was outstanding in evening gown and best overall presentations, which the judges voted for her as one of the top five nominees for BEST STAGE PRESENCE event, coming in 3rd place.
Valiant (automobile) The Valiant was a compact car based on the Chrysler A platform, introduced by the Chrysler Corporation in 1960 and was in production through 1976 in the US and to 1981 in Australia. While never a full-fledged division of its own, the Valiant was in theory its own make for one year in the United States and from 1960–66 in Canada.
Valiant class submarine The Valiant-class was the first fully British nuclear fleet submarine, as the first nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought, actually used an American nuclear reactor. There were only two boats of the class, the first boat, the nameship being commissioned just three years after Dreadnought in 1966, while Warspite commissioned the following year.
Valiant Comics trading cards During the trading card boom of the early 90s, Valiant Comics, through licenses with the major trading card manufacturers, produced a number of trading card sets and promotional cards to highlight the comics and characters of the Valiant Universe.
Valiant Charger The Valiant Charger was a short wheelbase Valiant coupe produced by Chrysler Australia from 1971, introduced with the VH model, through the 1973 VJ, VK up to CL range released in 1976 (770 model only). The best sales were in New Zealand, where they were also assembled, where the combination of the powerful engine, light body and short wheelbase were suited to New Zealand's windy and mountainous roads.
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie Valiant Is the Word for Carrie is a 1936 film which tells the story of a woman who runs an orphanage, fighting for the children against tough odds. It stars Gladys George, Arline Judge, Harry Carey, Isabel Jewell and Hattie McDaniel.
Valiant Sixty The Valiant Sixty were a group of early leaders and activists in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). They were itinerant preachers, mostly from northern England who spread the ideas of the Friends during the second half of the Seventeenth Century.
Valiant-Vazirani theorem The Valiant-Vazirani Theorem was proven by Leslie Valiant and Vijay Vazirani in their paper titled "NP is as easy as detecting unique solutions" published in 1986. The theorem states that if there is a polynomial time algorithm for UNIQUE-SAT, then NP=RP.
Valiathan Valiathan is the name of one of the Nair subcastes of Travancore region in Kerala state of India. They were part of the nobility in Travancore and this class originated through the marriages between high caste Nair ladies and Rajahs of the non ruling Kshatriya Houses of Kerala.
Valid Accessible Compatible Valid, Accessible and Compatible, or VAC, is an online project aimed at encouraging the development of standards compliant websites as well as accessible ones. Gaining popularity in the summer of 2006, VAC has served as the universal tag to identify websites whose owners have taken the time and effort to create websites that can be viewed properly, navigated easily, and accessed via any browser.
Valid but illicit Valid but illicit, also known as valid but illegal, is a term used within Roman Catholicism to describe the unauthorized practice of sacraments. In Roman Catholic theology several kinds of people have the inherent ability to perform the sacraments (see Catholic minister).
Valid but irregular Valid but irregular is a term applied in churches which have a concept of Holy Orders (particularly the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches) to acts carried out by someone who is able, due to their possession of the appropriate orders, to carry out the act, but does not have the necessary authority to do so. In the Roman Catholic church the term may be synonymous with 'valid but illicit'; however, the Anglican churches, being less centralised, do not usually go so far as to declare acts illicit.
Valid Logic Systems Valid Logic Systems was one of the first commercial EDA Electronic design automation companies. It was founded in the early 1980s, along with Daisy Systems Corporation and Mentor Graphics, collectively known as DMV.
Valid name (botany) In botanical nomenclature, a valid name is a name that meets the requirements in the ICBN for valid publication. Valid publication of a name represents the minimum requirements for a botanical name to exist: therefore a botanical name inescapably is always valid.
Valid name (zoology) In zoological nomenclature, the valid name of a taxon is the zoological name that is to be used for that taxon following the rules in the ICZN. In other words: a valid name is the correct zoological name of a taxon.
Validation (drug manufacture) Within the highly regulated environment of Drug manufacture and development there is a requirement within the regulations to prove that each process involved in producing the product can be shown to be both doing the right job, and doing the job right. This is often referred to as Validation.
Validation of Marriage Validation of Marriage or Convalidation of Marriage is, in Roman Catholic canon law (Catholic Church), making a putative marriage a valid one, after the removal of an impediment, or its dispensation, or the removal of defective consent. Once a putative marriage has been validated, it cannot be annulled.
Validation rule This process is carried out after the data has been encoded onto an input medium and involves a data vet or validation program. Its purpose is to check that data falls within certain parameters defined by the systems analyst.
Validator A validator is a computer program used to check the validity or syntactical correctness of a fragment of code or document. The term is commonly used in the context of validating HTML, CSS and XML documents or RSS feeds though it can be used for any defined format or language.
Validity In logic, the form of an argument is valid precisely if it cannot lead from true premises to a false conclusion. An argument is said to be valid if, in every model in which all premises are true, the conclusion is true.
Valie Export Valie Export (born May 17 1940 in Linz as Waltraud Lehner) is an Austrian artist. Her artistic work includes video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, computer animations, photography, sculptures and publications covering contemporary arts.
Valiha The valiha is a bamboo tube zither from Madagascar. It is played by plucking the strings, which may be made of metal or (originally) the bamboo skin which is pried up in long strands and propped up by small bridges.
Valiollah Khakdan Valiollah Khakdan (1923, Baku, Azerbaijan – 1996, Tehran, Iran) (Persian: ولی الله خاکدان) was an Iranian art director. He graduated from the faculty of painting at the Art School in Baku and started his career as an art director with Prince's Prisoner (1998, E.
Valis IV Valis IV (or Super Valis IV as it was named on the Super Nintendo) was a video game platformer and the final release of the Mugen Senshi Valis series in the United States. It was the first Valis title not to be released on the Sega Genesis in any form.
Valiyat-e faqih (book by Khomeini) Waliyat al-faqih (), (more commonly known as Hokumat-e Islami or Islamic Government in English), is a book by the Iranian Shia Muslim cleric and revolutionary Ayatollah Khomeini, first published in 1970, and probably the most influential document written in modern times in support of theocratic rule.
Valkenburg resistance The Valkenburg Resistance was the resistance movement in Valkenburg, Limburg, Netherlands, during World War II. Most of the activities were related to helping people who had gone into hiding for various reasons.
Valkenswaard Valkenswaard () is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands, in the province of Noord-Brabant. The municipality had 30,943 citizens (as of June 1, 2005) and spans an area of 56,50 square kilometers (1,15 of which water).
Valkyrie Dome Valkyrie Dome () is an ice dome rising to about 3,700 m in eastern Queen Maud Land. In 1963-64, a Soviet Antarctic Expedition oversnow traverse crossed the north part of the dome at an elevation over 3,600 meters.
Valkyrie no Densetsu is an arcade game that was released by Namco in 1989 only in Japan. It is a sequel to a Japan-only 1986 NES game entitled "Valkyrie no BĹŤken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu" (The Adventures of Valkyrie: Legend of the Key of Time).
Valkyrie Press Valkyrie Press was a specialised publisher of British comics. Originally established to publish Redfox, they also later published Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, both of which won Eagle Awards.
Valkyries in popular culture In modern media, the Valkyrie BrĂĽnnhilde, accompanied by the Ride of the Valkyries, is one of the most recognizable visual and aural motifs from opera, notwithstanding the fact that, in Act III of Die WalkĂĽre, the Ride takes place before she appears on stage. These depictions have subsequently led to modern representations of valkyries less as gore-spattered, shrieking and wolf-riding figures in a battle's sky but more commonly as angelic, pristine white and gold clad figures riding winged horses.
Vall de Boí The Vall de Boí is a narrow, steep-sided valley and a small municipality in the Spanish province of Lleida, in the autonomous community of Catalonia (also known in Spanish as Valle de Bohí). It lies in the northeastern corner of the comarca of Alta Ribagorça, on the edges of the Pyrenees.
Vallabha Acharya Sri Vallabha Acharya (1479 - 1531) was a devotional philosopher, who founded the Pushti sect in India, and the philosophy of Shuddha advaita (Pure Non-dualism). He is regarded as an acharya and guru within the Vaishnava traditions.
Valladares VALLADARES is not a typical Indian name; in fact it is not an Indian name at all. Yet, there are a lot of people with this family name living in the states of Maharashtra, (primarily in Mumbai), as well as in Goa.
Valladolid (province) Valladolid is a province of western Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Zamora, León, Palencia, Burgos, Segovia, Ávila, and Salamanca.
Vallance Jupp Vallance William Crisp Jupp (born 27 March 1891 in Burgess Hill, Sussex, England; died 9 July 1960 in Spratton, Northamptonshire, England) was an amateur cricketer who played for Sussex and Northamptonshire. Jupp also played eight Test matches for England, and was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1928.
Vallarpadam Church The Church of Our Lady of Ransom, Vallarpadam is a famous centre of pilgrimage. People from all parts of Kerala and outside, irrespective of caste or creed go to the church to seek the blessings of Mary, the mother of Jesus, popularly known as "Vallarpadathamma".
Vallauris Vallauris is a commune in the département of Alpes-Maritimes and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. It is located in the metropolitan Community of Agglomeration of Sophia-Antipolis, and is a suburb of the city of Antibes, bordering it on its west side.
Vallø Vallø is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Roskilde County on the east coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in east Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 84 km², and has a total population of 10,337 (2005).
Vallès El Vallès is a natural shire of Catalonia situated in the center Catalan Prelitoral Depression. It contains two administrative divisions, named comarques, the Vallès Occidental (capitals: Sabadell and Terrassa) and the Vallès Oriental (capital: Granollers).
Valle Crucis, North Carolina Valle Crucis is a unincorporated community located in Watauga County, North Carolina. The name of the town is Latin for "Vale of the Cross," a reference to a valley in the area where three streams converge to form a shape similar to an archbishop's cross.
Valle de los Caídos The Monumento Nacional de Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caidos ("National Monument of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen") is a monumental memorial site erected at Cuelgamuros in the Guadarrama Valley near Madrid, Spain, as conceived by Generalisimo Francisco Franco, to honour those who fell during the Spanish Civil War and as a national act of atonement. Underneath the monument lie the remains of 40,000 — roughly 50% per faction — whose names are accounted for in the monument registrar.
Valle de Mai Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve is a nature park and UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed in 1983) located on the island Praslin, Seychelles. It consists of a well-preserved palm forest made up of the endemic coco de mer species as well as five other endemic species of palm.
Valle della Cupa (Valley of Cupa) - Area of Italy centered around the town of Lecce, including the towns of Trepuzzi, Novoli, Carmiano, Arnesano, Monteroni, San Pietro in Lama, Lequile and San Cesareo di Lecce. Thanks to the particularly beautiful countryside and panorama, since XV century the region's aristocracy has elected the area as the ideal place for country-life and there has build numerous villas and mansions.
Valle Gran Rey Valle Gran Rey (Spanish meaning the "Valley of the Great King") is located on the southwestern coast of La Gomera in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife of the Canary Islands. The Guanche name of the area was Hupalupa.
Valle Mäkelä Valle Mäkelä (born February 2 1986, Laitila, Finland) is a Finnish motor racing driver, currently (2006) racing for Manor Motorsport in British Formula Renault. British Formula Ford champion in 2004, a lack of funds left him struggling for drives in 2005.
Valle San Giovanni Valle San Giovanni is a small village of approximately 350 people located about six miles away from the town (comune) of Teramo, the capital of the province of Teramo, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The Adriatic Sea and the Gran Sasso are about 25 km away.
Valle, Arizona Valle, Arizona, USA, lies at , at the junction of US Highway 180 and Arizona Highway 64, in Coconino County, Arizona. Its attractions include the Valle Airport (40G), the Planes of Fame Air Museum, and Flintstones Bedrock City.
Vallecas Vallecas is a neighborhood of Madrid composed of two districts: Puente de Vallecas (population 240,917) and Villa de Vallecas (population 65,162). The Villa of Vallecas was an independent village until 1950 when it became part of Madrid.
Vallecitos Nuclear Center The Vallecitos Nuclear Center was an electricity-generating nuclear power plant in Pleasanton, California, about 30 miles east of San Francisco. It is owned by the General Electric and located on State Highway 84.
Vallecula Vallecula is an anatomic term for a crevice, depression, or furrow in something. There are a variety of valleculae in the human body, including one between the hemispheres of the brain, on the inferior surface of the cerebellum, in which the medulla oblongata is located.
Vallecular recess The vallecular recesses (from Latin, valles, or valley) are bilateral spaces at the base of the tongue. They are limited inferolaterally by the lateral glossoepiglottic folds and separated by the median glossoepiglottic fold.
Valledupar Valledupar is a city and municipality in northeastern Colombia, capital of the Department of Cesar founded in 1550 by Spanish Conqueror Hernando de Santana. Its name Valle de Upar (Valley of Upar) was established in honor of an amerindian cacique that ruled the valley; Cacique Upar.
Vallee Blanche Aerial Tramway The Vallee Blanche Aerial Tramway is a passenger aerial tramway with small, which was taken in 1958 in service. It connects Aiguille du Midi and the Col du Géant with each other and runs from the Aiguille du Midi to the angle station Gros Rognon, whereby it crosses the Vallée Blanche, a rock valley, on a length of 1684 meters.
Vallegrande Vallegrande (Spanish: "Big Valley") is a small town in Bolivia, located in the Department of Santa Cruz, some 125 km (bee-line) southwest of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. It is the capital of the Vallegrande Province and serves as a regionally important market town.
Vallehermoso, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Vallehermoso is located on the southwestern and the northwestern coasts of La Gomera in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife of the Canary Islands. Vallehermoso is linked with a main highway encircling every part of the island and is located WNW of the island capital, San Sebastián de la Gomera .
Vallejo Flour Mill The Vallejo Flour Mill in Fremont, California, was built in 1856 by José de Jesús Vallejo, brother of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, on his Rancho Arroyo de la Alameda. The former town of Niles, California was once called Vallejo Mills.
Vallejo Transit Vallejo Transit or VT is a public transportation service in Solano County, California. It provides local, express, and school bus service to the Solano County cities of Vallejo, Fairfield, Suisun City, and Vacaville.
Vallensbæk Vallensbæk is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Copenhagen County on the east coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. The municipality, the second smallest in area in Denmark after Frederiksberg covers an area of 9,15 km², and has a total population of 12,260 (2005).
Valles Marineris Valles Marineris (Latin for Mariner Valleys, named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter of 1971-72 which discovered it) is a vast canyon system that runs along the Martian equator just east of the Tharsis region. At 4,500 km long, 200 km wide and up to 5.
Vallespir Vallespir is a historical Catalan comarca of Northern Catalonia, now part of the French Département of Pyrénées-Orientales. The capital of the comarca is Ceret, and it borders Conflent, Rosselló, Alt Empordà, Garrotxa and Ripollès.
Valletta treaty The Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological heritage of Europe, usually referred to as the Valletta Treaty or Malta Convention, is an initiative from the Council of Europe. The treaty from 1992, aims to protect the European archaeological heritage ‘as a source of European collective memory and as an instrument for historical and scientific study.
Valley A valley (in Scotland, a glen) is a landform, which can range from a few square miles (square kilometers) to hundreds or even thousands of square miles in area. It is typically a low-lying area of land, surrounded by higher areas such as mountains or hills.
Valley and Sierra Miwok The Valley and Sierra Miwok (also called the Plains and Sierra Miwok), were the largest group of Miwok Native American people. They lived in Northern California on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains between the Fresno and Cosumnes Rivers and also in the "Central Valley" in the delta area, where the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers converge.
Valley Arts Guitar Valley Arts Guitar is a small electric guitar manufacturer currently owned and operated by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. Mike McGuire and Al Carness founded the company in the mid-1970s in North Hollywood, California, a district of Los Angeles, California in the San Fernando Valley; the name "Valley Arts" is a reference to the firm's original location.
Valley Boulevard Valley Boulevard is a street in Southern California, United States, running east from Los Angeles to Pomona, where it becomes Holt Boulevard, and a continuation from Fontana to Colton. It generally parallels Interstate 10 and State Route 60, and is the original alignment of U.
Valley Campaigns of 1864 The Valley Campaigns of 1864 were American Civil War operations and battles that took place in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia from May to October 1864. Military historians divide this period into three separate campaigns, but it is useful to consider the three together and how they interacted.
Valley Cemetery The Valley Cemetery (or the Valley Street Cemetery) is a public cemetery located in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. It is bounded on the east by Pine Street, on the north by Auburn Street, on the west by Willow Street, and on the south by Valley Street, from which it derives its name.
Valley Centertainment Valley Centertainment is a large entertainment complex in the Don Valley in Sheffield. It was built on land previously occupied by steel mills near what is now Meadowhall and Meadowhall Retail Park and is home to several restaurants, bars, cinema multiplex and bowling alley.
Valley City State University Valley City State University (VCSU) is a baccalaureate- and masters-granting public institution of higher learning in Valley City, North Dakota and one of eleven campuses in the North Dakota University System. It is located on a 55 acre (223,000 m²) campus in the southern part of the city.
Valley City Times-Record The Valley City Times-Record is a daily newspaper printed in Valley City, North Dakota. The Times-Record is the official newspaper of Barnes County, North Dakota and has a modest circulation in southeast North Dakota.
Valley County, Idaho Valley County is located in west central Idaho. The county was established in 1917, named after the Long Valley of the North Fork of the Payette River, which extends nearly 30 miles from Payette Lake at McCall south to Cascade.
Valley Forge Valley Forge was the site of the camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 in the American Revolutionary War. This was a time of great suffering for George Washington's Army, but it was also a time of retraining and rejuvenation.
Valley Forge (play) Valley Forge is a 1934 play by Maxwell Anderson, about the winter that George Washington spent in Valley Forge. Philip Merivale played Washington in the original production, and Richard Basehart played him in the Hallmark Hall of Fame television version.
Valley Forge High School Valley Forge High School is a high school located in the Cleveland, Ohio suburb of Parma Heights. It is part of the Parma City School District, which is one of the largest school districts in the State of Ohio, serving the cities of Parma, Parma Heights, and Seven Hills.
Valley Forge Military Academy and College The Valley Forge Military Academy is a boarding school for up and coming young men grades seven through twelve, and additionally offers a co-ed 2 year junior college program. The academy is located in the Pennsylvania Main Line suburb of Wayne in Radnor Township (outside of Philadelphia).
Valley Forge National Historical Park Valley Forge National Historical Park is the site where the Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–1778 near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War. The National Historical Park preserves the site and interprets the history of the Valley Forge encampment.
Valley Forge Pilgrimage The Valley Forge Pilgrimage and Encampment is the oldest annual Scouting event in the United States. It was first held on February 22 1913 (George Washington's 181st birthday), and has been held every year since.
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania The Village of Valley Forge is an unincorporated settlement located on the west side of Valley Forge National Historical Park at the confluence of Valley Creek and the Schuylkill River. The remaining villiage is in Schuylkill Township of Chester County, Pennsylvania, but once spanned Valley Creek into Montgomery County.
Valley Heights Secondary School Valley Heights Secondary School (VHSS) is a two-story rural high school located near Langton, Ontario. Opened in 1971, Valley Heights sits on a property that spans a hundred acres and includes fields, Carolinian forests, rivers and marshy areas.
Valley Hunt Club The Valley Hunt Club is an exclusive private social club located in Pasadena, California, that is most noted for starting the Tournament of Roses in 1890. Valley Hunt is dominated by an elite cadre of Pasadena's very rich, many of whom still live in the historic South Orange Grove Boulevard and South Lake Avenue mansion districts.
Valley Lines The Valley Lines is the commonly-known name for the network of local train services in valleys of South Wales from Cardiff, Wales. It was the trading name of the Cardiff Railway Company, the franchise which operated most of these services (the Maesteg Line being the exception, which was operated by Wales and West) from privatisation in 1995 until 2001, when it became part of the new Wales and Borders franchise.
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Valley Metro (Roanoke) Valley Metro, the operational name for the Greater Roanoke Transit Company, is a local government-owned urban-suburban bus line based in Roanoke, Virginia. First Transit Management Services currently provides the general manager and assistant general manager.
Valley National Bank Valley National Bank is the principal subsidiary of Valley National Bancorp (NYSE:VLY) a regional bank holding company with assets over $12 billion. VNB was founded in 1927 and operates as a super-community bank based in Wayne, New Jersey with 164 branch offices in northern and central New Jersey and following it's purchase of the Merchants Bank of New York, it also has branches in Manhattan.
Valley of a Thousand Hills The Valley of a Thousand Hills is a valley between Pietermaritzburg, and Durban, South Africa. The Umgeni River meets the Msunduzi River (Duzi River) in the valley, and the Dusi Canoe Marathon is run through the area every year.
Valley of Alma According to The Book of Mormon, a group of refugees from the land of Lehi-Nephi paused in this valley long enough to pitch their tents (probably one night). They gave to the valley the name of their leader, Alma, a former priest of king Noah.
Valley of Corrupted Gravity A fictional location seen in The Legend of Dragoon, The Valley of Corrupted Gravity is a by-product of a great war between the Dragoons and Winglies of past times. Due to the effects of the destruction caused by the warring parties, many of the natural laws of physics do not apply here.
Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz) Valley of Death in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, is a site of Nazi German mass murder and a mass grave of 5 000 – 6 600 Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by local Germans (Selbstschutz) and Gestapo.
Valley of Hamon-Gog The phrase, from Ezekiel 39:15, literally means "Valley of the multitudes of Gog". It is to be the place where all of Israel buries the five-sixths of the army of Gog and Magog that are struck down by God.
Valley of Jehoshaphat The Valley of Jehoshaphat is mentioned once in the Hebrew Bible, in the Book of Joel 3:2, 3:12 (AV). There, after the present devastation of the land, when the northern army is repelled, Yahweh would gather all the heathen nations and would sit in judgment on their misdeeds to Israel.
Valley of Josaphat The Valley of Josaphat is mentioned in only one passage of the Bible (Joel 3 -- Hebrew text, 4). In Verse 2 we read: "I will gather together all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations" (cf.
Valley of Mexico The Valley of Mexico is a highlands plateau in central Mexico roughly coterminous with the present-day Distrito Federal and the eastern half of Estado de Mexico. Surrounded by mountains and volcanoes, the Valley of Mexico was a center for several pre-Columbian civilizations, including the Teotihuacanos, Toltecs, and Aztecs.
Valley of the Dolls Valley of the Dolls is the title of a best selling novel by Jacqueline Susann, published in 1966, and the Hollywood film which followed it in 1967. It is widely considered one of the most commercially successful novels of all time.
Valley of the Fallen Phoenix Valley of the Fallen Phoenix (落鳳坡, Luòfèngpō), is the location where Pang Tong was killed in an ambush by Zhang Ren's archers during Liu Bei's invasion of Sichuan in the Three Kingdoms period of China. It was here where Pang Tong was mistaken for Liu Bei and shot repeatedly in many areas of the body.
Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings (Arabic: وادي الملوك Wadi Biban el-Muluk; "Gates of the King")Reeves and Wilkinson (1996), p. 6 is a valley in Egypt where for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the kings and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom (the Eighteenth through Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt).
Valley of the Queens The Valley of the Queens, also known as Biban el-Harim (), Biban el-Sultanat (), and Wadi el-Melikat (), is a place in Egypt where wives of Pharaohs were buried in ancient times. In ancient times, it was known as Ta-Set-Neferu, meaning –‘the place of the Children of the Pharaoh’, because along with the Queens of the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties (1550–1070 BCE) many princes and princesses were also buried with various members of the nobility.

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