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 * ... that Tacora (pictured), Chile's northernmost volcano, was the site of substantial sulfur mining operations that were explicitly given to Chile in a 1929 treaty with Peru?
 * ...that Bodega Bay in California was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds?
 * ...that the legendary Buenaventura River was imagined to parallel the significance of the Mississippi River within the western North America?
 * ... that the 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake destroyed all the buildings of Port-au-Prince, in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (the future Haiti)?
 * ... that the early-February 1995 winter storm was the only major nor'easter of the 1994–1995 winter?
 * ... that the view atop Mount Kaputar in Mount Kaputar National Park, Australia, encompasses about 1/10th of New South Wales?