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    Ashima Shiraishi (born 2001) US, first female to climb V15 (Horizon, Mount Hiei, Japan) William Shockley (1910–1989) US, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, proponent...
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    at point-blank range. At one point Laffey was so close to the battleship Hiei that she was able to use her machine guns to cause critical damage to the...
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  • charter bus plunging 270 ft (80 m) into a valley along the toll road of Mount Hiei, Ōtsu, Shiga, killing 30 people and injuring another 18. September 14 – Greece...
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    14d (9a) (32-pitch). 2016 : March 22, Ashima Shiraishi solves Horizon, at Mount Hiei, Japan, first-ever female 8C (V15) boulder problem. 2016 : August 3, the...
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    Bingo province as a consequence of complaints of Buddhist priests from Mt. Hiei; but shortly thereafter, he was recalled to Heian-kyō because of past services...
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  • The decommissioned minesweeper, a former destroyer, was sunk as a gunnery target by the battlecruisers Haruna and Hiei (both  Imperial Japanese Navy)....
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