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2. The Four Winds (Mesopotamian) - Wikipedia

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   These winds, aside from being used for cardinality, were also figures important to mythology and general culture in Mesopotamia. As figures, the four winds have been identified with four winged beings on cylinder seals. [3] Three are male (the NE, NW, and SW winds) and one (The South wind or South-East wind) is female.

3. The Secret Hide-Out - Wikipedia

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   The Secret Hide-Out is a children's novel written and illustrated by children's author John Peterson, who also created The Littles. It was originally published as a hardback title by Four Winds Press in 1965, then became a long-running paperback for Scholastic Press and its book clubs, through the 1970s. The book is an adventure story about two ...

4. House of the Four Winds - Wikipedia

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   House of the Four Winds. /  36.59778°N 121.89611°W  / 36.59778; -121.89611. The House of the Four Winds, or La Casa de Los Vientos, is a historic adobe building located at 540 Calle Principal in Monterey, California. It was built by Thomas O. Larkin in 1834 (or 1840). The house acquired its named because of the weather vane on its ...

5. The House of the Four Winds - Wikipedia

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   318 [1] Preceded by. Castle Gay. The House of the Four Winds is a 1935 adventure novel by the Scots author John Buchan. It is a Ruritanian romance, and the last of his three Dickson McCunn books. The novel is set in the fictional Central European country of Evallonia and opens two years after the events recounted in Castle Gay .

6. Four Winds - Wikipedia

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   Four Winds (New Orleans), a historic apartment building in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Casinos in Michigan, United States: Four Winds Dowagiac. Four Winds Hartford. Four Winds New Buffalo. Four Winds Field at Coveleski Stadium, baseball facility, South Bend, Indiana, United States. Four Winds, a suburb of south Belfast, Northern Ireland.

7. Edmond Halley - Wikipedia

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   Halley took a twenty-four-foot (7.3 m) long telescope with him, apparently paid for by his father. While still an undergraduate, Halley published papers on the Solar System and sunspots . [12] In March 1675, he wrote to John Flamsteed , the Astronomer Royal (England's first), telling him that the leading published tables on the positions of ...