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Bonneville Salt Flats, the Glossary

The Bonneville Salt Flats are a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah, United States.^[1]

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Benjamin Bonneville

Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (April 14, 1796 – June 12, 1878) was an American officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West.

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The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub steppe ecoregion) of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa north of Reno, Nevada, that encompasses more than of land and contains more than of historic trails.

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Bonneville International

Bonneville International Corporation is a media and broadcasting company, wholly owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) through its for-profit arm, Deseret Management Corporation.

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Bonneville Speedway

Bonneville Speedway (also known as the Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track) is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats northeast of Wendover, Utah, that is marked out for motor sports.

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Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering U.S. federal lands.

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Gerry (2002 film)

Gerry is a 2002 American drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, and starring and co-written by Matt Damon and Casey Affleck.

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Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world.

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Grove Karl Gilbert

Grove Karl Gilbert (May 6, 1843 – May 1, 1918), known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist.

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Independence Day (1996 film)

Independence Day (also promoted as ID4) is a 1996 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and the film's producer Dean Devlin, and stars an ensemble cast that consists of Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, Vivica A.

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Independence Day: Resurgence

Independence Day: Resurgence is a 2016 American science fiction action film co-written, directed and co-produced by Roland Emmerich and co-written and co-produced by Dean Devlin, serving as a sequel to Independence Day (1996).

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Intermountain West

The Intermountain West, or Intermountain Region, is a geographic and geological region of the Western United States.

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Interstate 80 in Utah

Interstate 80 (I-80) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey.

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Knight Rider (1982 TV series)

Knight Rider is an American action crime drama television series created and produced by Glen A. Larson.

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Lake Bonneville

Lake Bonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America.

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Land speed racing

Land speed racing is a form of motorsport.

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Land speed record

The land speed record (LSR) or absolute land speed record is the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land.

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List of counties in Utah

There are 29 counties in the U.S. state of Utah.

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List of vehicle speed records

The following is a list of speed records for various types of vehicles.

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Modern competitive archery

Modern competitive archery involves shooting arrows at a target for accuracy and precision from a set distance or distances.

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Officer (armed forces)

An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service.

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Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company

The Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company was an American motor vehicle manufacturer based in Buffalo, New York, active from 1901 to 1938.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007 American epic fantasy swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by the writing team of Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pontiac (automobile)

Pontiac, or formally the Pontiac Motor Division of General Motors, was an American automobile brand owned, manufactured, and commercialized by General Motors.

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Pontiac Bonneville

The Pontiac Bonneville is a model line of full-size or mid-size front-engine rear drive cars manufactured and marketed by Pontiac from 1957 until 2005, with a hiatus for model years 1982-1986.

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Potash

Potash includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.

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Public land

In all modern states, a portion of land is held by central or local governments.

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Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Salt (chemistry)

In chemistry, a salt or ionic compound is a chemical compound consisting of an assembly of positively charged ions (cations) and negatively charged ions (anions), which results in a compound with no net electric charge (electrically neutral).

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Salt pan (geology)

Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun.

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SLC Punk!

SLCPunk! is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by James Merendino.

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Smith Creek (Lander County, Nevada)

Smith Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Stardust (spacecraft)

Stardust was a 385-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on 7 February 1999.

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Sunset

Sunset (or sundown) is the disappearance of the Sun below the horizon of the Earth (or any other astronomical object in the Solar System) due to its rotation.

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Teddy Tetzlaff

Theodore Herbert Tetzlaff (February 5, 1883 – December 8, 1929) was an American racing driver active in the formative years of auto racing.

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The Ballad of Big Al

The Ballad of Big Al, marketed as Allosaurus in North America, is a 2000 special episode of the nature documentary television series Walking with Dinosaurs.

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The Brown Bunny

The Brown Bunny is a 2003 film written, directed, produced, photographed and edited by Vincent Gallo.

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The Cremaster Cycle

The Cremaster Cycle is a series of five feature-length films, together with related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books, created by American visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney.

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The Tree of Life (film)

The Tree of Life is a 2011 American epic experimental coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick.

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The World's Fastest Indian

The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 New Zealand biographical sports drama film based on the Invercargill, New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle.

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Tooele County, Utah

Tooele County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Top Gear series 12

Series 12 of Top Gear, a British motoring magazine and factual television programme, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two during 2008, consisting of seven episodes that were aired between 2 November and 14 December.

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Triumph Bonneville

The Triumph Bonneville is a standard motorcycle featuring a parallel-twin four-stroke engine and manufactured in three generations over three separate production runs.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Utah

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Warlock (1989 film)

Warlock is a 1989 American supernatural horror film directed by Steve Miner and written by David Twohy.

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West Wendover, Nevada

West Wendover is a small city in Elko County, Nevada, United States.

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5535 Annefrank

5535 Annefrank, provisional designation, is a stony Florian asteroid and suspected contact binary from the inner asteroid belt, approximately 4.5 kilometers in diameter.

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81P/Wild

Comet 81P/Wild, also known as Wild 2 (pronounced "vilt two"), is a comet named after Swiss astronomer Paul Wild, who discovered it on January 6, 1978, using a 40-cm Schmidt telescope at Zimmerwald, Switzerland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Salt_Flats

Also known as Bonneville Flats, Bonneville Flats, Utah, Bonneville Salt, Utah Salt Flats.

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See also

Bureau of Land Management areas in Utah

Deserts of Utah

Great Salt Lake Desert

Salt flats of the United States

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