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Recent Examples of loughAlong with a grassy walled garden, an arboretum, the property has nearly three miles of lough frontage and shooting rights across a total of 3,000 acres.—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025 On the shores of Belfast's lough, The Culloden Estate and Spa is a serene escape from the buzzy city scene.—Ciara McQuillan, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2022
Kayaking, swimming, and snorkeling to see the lake's vibrant cichlid fish population are popular pastimes.
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Melanie van Zyl,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Mar. 2026
For generations the park has served as a cultural and recreational hub for the largely Latino working-class neighborhood, with a lake, playgrounds, sports fields and a band shell that hosts concerts and community events.
The 80-foot-long grinning behemoth floating in a roadside pond was built as an anniversary gift for the owner’s whale-loving wife.
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Zoey Goto,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
The backyard flock in New London County consisted of chickens, ducks and peacocks that were family pets, not commercial poultry, and had close contact with wild birds in a nearby pond, officials said.
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Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
7 Mar. 2026
Located on the shores of Loch Linnhe, one of 31,000 freshwater lochs in Scotland, Fort William sits in the shadow of Ben Nevis, at 4,490 feet the highest peak in Britain.
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Patti Nickell,
Boston Herald,
15 Feb. 2026
Curling is a game of tradition, first played centuries ago on Scottish lochs, where players slide heavy granite rocks down a sheet of ice toward a target.
Bahrain and Qatar have effectively halted production of oil and LNG, keeping output at a trickle to avoid complete shutdowns that could damage reservoirs and delay restarts.
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Amena Bakr,
semafor.com,
9 Mar. 2026
Iran’s own water supply at risk After a fifth year of extreme drought, water levels in Tehran’s five reservoirs plunged to some 10% of their capacity, prompting President Masoud Pezeshkian to warn the capital may have to be evacuated.
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Annika Hammerschlag,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026