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Prisoners would be kept in 'quartier de sauveté' and 'donner quartier' is short for 'donner quartier de sauveté'.

Of course the guy leading the Donner Party probably could say the same thing too.

The rails along that route (encompassing Donner Pass) are better than raised, they're roofed.

In this new hands-on workshop, Ed Donner and I (Jon Krohn) introduce AI agents, including multi-agent systems.

Two Words: Donner Party They did eventually get where they were going.

It also mentions the rescue train from Reno got stuck at Soda Springs, which _is_ on the RR line and west of Donner Pass.

There are some views of the American river valley, and the mountains a bit higher up, but not much of the high peaks around the Donner summit.

> Dutch chess grandmaster Jan Hein Donner was asked how he’d prepare for a chess match against a computer, like I.

Either way I will always fondly remember having a donner kebab on a Wednesday evening, sat in the kitchen watching Star Trek Enterprise on the telly on its spinning turntable.

Case in point: a long haul truck from Oakland to Chicago has to tackle Donner Pass, the Wasatch, Sherman hill (the Wyoming continental divide) and then finally gets a flat stretch across the Great Plains.

Organizations like the Trust for Public Land and the Truckee Donner Land Trust that are systematically acquiring many of these checkerboard inholdings to preserved them from future development and open them to low-impact public recreation.

The reason no one stumbled upon them was that no one was foolish enough to attempt crossing the mountains at that time of the year anymore (and, if they had attempted it, they would have ended up in the same situation as the Donner Party).

The article says "near Yuba pass" but Yuba Pass is on the 49, far north of Donner Pass and not on the RR line.

Donner replied: “I would bring a hammer.” Okay, but why not bring a gun to a chess match against a human?

Watching the car battery eating its own range while driving to "Donner pass road" on your way out of Tahoe or Reno feels rather appropriately horrific.

There's a "Jumpoff Joe creek" in Oregon, in addition to a "whorehouse meadow", a town called Boring, and a Donner and Blitzen river.

The real core science behind the testing is Yoni Donner's thesis at Stanford, and he's the founder and lead developer...

Donner's Model 3500 is a full-fledged analog computer weighing just 28 lbs.

Think about how his star system worked, so that Donner's Superman shared a rating with Herzog's Aguirre, The Wrath of God, and that somehow still made sense.