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  • noun a peak in the San Juan mountains of Colorado (14,246 feet high)

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Examples

  • More than 3 inches of rain fell Monday at Mount Wilson, which is within the Station Fire burn area; 2.64 inches fell in Sierra Madre, where a minor mudslide was reported beneath the Santa Anita Fire burn area; and Morris Dam, where the Morris Fire originated, got 2.40 inches, the NWS reported.

    EMSResponder.com: Top EMS News rss@emsresponder.com (Dan Abendschein and Alfred L 2010

  • Police said the Bellevue Hill woman was canyoning with a group of friends in the Whungee Wheengee Canyon, near Mount Wilson, which is close to where 15-year-old Nick Delaney died in a suspected rock collapse last month.

    The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines 2010

  • Firefighters burned away vegetation below the northeast slope of Mount Wilson, which is crowned with TV and communications antennas for the region, and helicopters made runs in and out of the S.n Gabriel Mountains while expert hotshot crews worked deep in the wilderness, said U.S. Forest S.rvice spokesman Nathan Judy.

    Home 2009

  • One of the two lines serving Mount Wilson, which is topped by a historic observatory and key broadcast and communications antennas for the Los Angeles region, must be completely replaced.

    unknown title 2009

  • I took the Evoque up the Angeles Crest to Mount Wilson and back—L.A.'s Nürburgring—and the thing drove like a champ.

    Evoque: A Range Rover for a Smaller Era Dan Neil 2011

  • We drive about an hour, up the 2 Freeway in his Saab convertible, through rugged mountain terrain, to Mount Wilson and pull off near the observatory.

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • We drive about an hour, up the 2 Freeway in his Saab convertible, through rugged mountain terrain, to Mount Wilson and pull off near the observatory.

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • He then worked for three years at the California Institute of Technology, supported as a Fellow of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories.

    Contributor: Spencer Weart 2010

  • Then at Mount Wilson there were more living trees, because fire crews fought successfully to save the Mount Wilson Observatory and the trees around it.

    Lorraine Roe: Angeles Crest Highway Reopens: A Bittersweet Trip Through The Barren San Gabriel Mountains 2009

  • While still in Princeton, Einstein received news of preliminary experiments conducted at Mount Wilson, which seemed to find evidence for the effect of an ether — whose existence had been disproved by Michelson-Morley 33 years before.

    What Did Einstein Know, And When Did He Know It? 2009

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