Urra Dam
Urra may refer to: * Urra Moor, a moor in North Yorkshire, England * Urra (antiquity), a city in ancient Babylonia; see Geography of Mesopotamia * Urra, a parish (freguesia) in the district of Portalegre in Portugal * Urra Dam, in Colombia ** Urrá, the company that built the dam See also * Urras, a fictional world in ''The Dispossessed'' by Ursula K. Le Guin * Oorah ''Oorah'' is a battle cry common in the United States Marine Corps since the mid-20th century. It is comparable to Hooah in the United States Army, the United States Air Force, and the United States Space Force, or Hooyah in the United States Na ...

Urra Moor
Urra Moor is the highest moor in the North York Moors, North Yorkshire, England. At above sea level it is the highest point in Hambleton District and the North York Moors National Park, and the fourteenth most prominent hill in England. The name is a mix of Old English and Old Norse (''horh'' and ''haugr'') which means ''The Dirty Hill''. The name of Urra Moor applies to the moor as a whole; the summit itself is known as Round Hill. The summit is crowned by a trig point, and a track passes about to the south of this point. This track forms part of the route of both the Lyke Wake Walk and the Cleveland Way, and also forms the most commonly used route of ascent for Urra Moor. It is from the car park at Clay Bank to the summit via this route; total ascent is just under . Urra Moor is noted for its prehistoric remains. There are a number of barrows, and several carved rocks, including some cup and ring carvings. Probably the most striking relic is the Face Stone, a carved ston ...
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Urra (antiquity)
Urra may refer to: * Urra Moor, a moor in North Yorkshire, England * Urra (antiquity), a city in ancient Babylonia; see Geography of Mesopotamia * Urra, a parish (freguesia) in the district of Portalegre in Portugal * Urra Dam, in Colombia ** Urrá, the company that built the dam See also * Urras, a fictional world in ''The Dispossessed'' by Ursula K. Le Guin * Oorah ''Oorah'' is a battle cry common in the United States Marine Corps since the mid-20th century. It is comparable to Hooah in the United States Army, the United States Air Force, and the United States Space Force, or Hooyah in the United States Na ...

Geography Of Mesopotamia
The geography of Mesopotamia, encompassing its ethnology and history, centered on the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. While the southern is flat and marshy, the near approach of the two rivers to one another, at a spot where the undulating plateau of the north sinks suddenly into the Babylonian alluvium, tends to separate them still more completely. In the earliest recorded times, the northern portion was included in Mesopotamia; it was marked off as Assyria after the rise of the Assyrian monarchy. Apart from Assur, the original capital of Assyria, the chief cities of the country, Nineveh, Kalaḫ and Arbela, were all on the east bank of the Tigris. The reason was its abundant supply of water, whereas the great plain on the western side had to depend on streams flowing into the Euphrates. Defining Mesopotamia Mesopotamia means "(Land) between two rivers" in ancient Greek, referring to the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, but the region can be broadly defi ...
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Portalegre, Portugal
Portalegre () is a municipality in Portugal. The population was 22,368, in an area of . The municipality is located by the Serra de São Mamede in the Portalegre District. Its name comes from the Latin Portus Alacer (meaning "cheerful port"). The municipal holiday is 23 May. According to the 2001 census the city of Portalegre had 15,768 inhabitants in its two parishes (Sé and São Lourenço). These two parishes, plus the eight rural parishes, had a total of 25,608 inhabitants. The current mayor is Adelaide Teixeira, who was elected as an independent. History According to a frequently mentioned legend, described by Friar Amador Arrais in his 1589 work, ''Diálogos'', Portalegre was founded by Lísias in the 12th century BC, following the disappearance of his daughter Maia. She was walking with Tobias when she is coveted by a vagabond, Dolme, who kidnaps and murders Tobias. Lísias is desperate for his daughter's disappearance and goes in search of her, eventually finding her ...
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Urra Dam
Urra may refer to: * Urra Moor, a moor in North Yorkshire, England * Urra (antiquity), a city in ancient Babylonia; see Geography of Mesopotamia * Urra, a parish (freguesia) in the district of Portalegre in Portugal * Urra Dam, in Colombia ** Urrá, the company that built the dam See also * Urras, a fictional world in ''The Dispossessed'' by Ursula K. Le Guin * Oorah ''Oorah'' is a battle cry common in the United States Marine Corps since the mid-20th century. It is comparable to Hooah in the United States Army, the United States Air Force, and the United States Space Force, or Hooyah in the United States Na ...

The Dispossessed
''The Dispossessed'' (in later printings titled ''The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia'') is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number of books to win the Hugo, Locus and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. It achieved a degree of literary recognition unusual for science fiction due to its exploration of themes such as anarchism (on a satellite planet called Anarres) and revolutionary societies, capitalism, utopia, and individualism and collectivism. It features the development of the mathematical theory underlying a fictional ''ansible'', a device capable of faster-than-light communication (it can send messages without delay, even between star systems) that plays a critical role in the Hainish Cycle. The invention of the ansible places the novel first in the internal chronology of the Hainish Cycle, although it was the fifth published. Background In her introduction to the L ...
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