Saint Helens
Britishnoun
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a town in NW England, in St Helens unitary authority, Merseyside: glass industry. Pop: 102 629 (2001)
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a unitary authority in NW England, in Merseyside. Pop: 176 700 (2003 est). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)
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a volcanic peak in S Washington state; it erupted in 1980 after lying dormant from 1857
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Lee says the government would certainly know how to orchestrate a cover-up, citing reports of soldiers spiriting away Bigfoot bodies after the eruption of Mount Saint Helens in 1980.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2017
Lava Butte isn’t on the scale of Mount Saint Helens.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2017
Mount Saint Helens has a good example of a lava dome inside of a collapsed stratovolcano crater.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Laura Kaminsky’s mainly minimalist score, performed brilliantly by the Saint Helens String Quartet, chugs busily along, with some beautiful lyrical moments – and some cleverly surreal swooping and drooping during Hannah’s disorienting hormonal transformative period.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2016
The armament returned to Saint Helens, to the astonishment and disgust of the whole nation.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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