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Flagstaff

City in Arizona, USA, 400 km/249 mi north of Phoenix; population (1990) 45,900. The largest city in north central Arizona, Flagstaff is the railway and livestock-market centre for the surrounding region, and has timber mills which use the local yellow pine. The Lowell Observatory (1894) is here. Situated 129 km/80 mi south of the Grand Canyon, Flagstaff is a centre of tourism, and there are local ski resorts.

Close to Flagstaff are Hopi and Navajo reservations. The city's Museum of Northern Arizona documents American Indian life in the region. Annual craft exhibitions are a tourist attraction.

The University of Northern Arizona (1899) is in Flagstaff. Three national monuments - Sunset Crater, Wupatki, and Walnut Canyon - lie within 40 km/25 mi of Flagstaff. These fields of volcanoes are important to American Indian culture.



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On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkonski bleeding profusely and unconsciously uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan.
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