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We meet Gillies at the Jehovah's Witnesses UK headquarters set in 85 acres of Essex countryside.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Plans call for two large dams about 300 feet high, as well as nine smaller ones, holding water pumped from the Sacramento River and inundating about 15,000 acres in a valley northwest of Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
“The house sits on a mountain, on 26 acres and has a 140 mile view,” she said on a social media post describing the place.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
The authority, which manages the Vancouver port, said the expansion project would increase container capacity by about 50%, through a new land-mass and wharf structure covering 300 acres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
One night, she recalled, thousands of acres of Hale’s land had been set on fire.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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