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Date Posted: 12:00:10 04/01/02 Mon
Author: Buffy's vampire
Subject: Biggest hill in the world

No doubt about the Americans... you just have to admire their ingenuity. As I have been informed, the British put a boundary around the notion of a mountain by declaring that a mountain is a rise above the surrounding land of 2000 feet [The British classification of a mountain is 2,000 feet or higher].
Well, the Oklahomans have a beautiful rise named ... here...I will paste what I consider to be ingenius:

There appears to be something majestic about the everlasting hills of Oklahoma that keeps drawing people back to them, people that may have left here during the dust bowl days, the "Grapes of Wrath" period. Perhaps it is the simplicity of life, the laid back lifestyle offered by those ever alluring hills. Cavanal is such a hill, so named because of the many caves and caverns on the "Worlds Highest Hill". The British classification of a mountain is 2,000 feet or higher. Cavanal, being 1,999 feet above average terrain, lacks just one foot being classified as a mountain, thus the reason why Potonians claim fame to being home of "The World's Highest Hill". The view from the top of "the hill" is breathtaking and stretches for miles, even into neighboring Arkansas.

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