The pyramid-shaped island tufa that lies along the east shore of the lake and is the reason the lake was named Pyramid Lake. Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the Truckee River Basin, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Reno. Pyramid Lake is fed by the Truckee River, which is mostly the outflow from Lake Tahoe. The Truckee River enters Pyramid Lake at its southern end. Pyramid Lake has no outlet, with water leaving only by evaporation, or sub-surface seepage (an endorheic lake). The lake has about 10% of the area of the Great Salt Lake, but it has about 25% more volume. The salinity is approximately 1/6 that of sea water. Although clear Lake Tahoe forms the headwaters that drain to Pyramid Lake, the Truckee River delivers more turbid waters to Pyramid Lake after traversing the steep Sierra terrain and collecting moderately high silt-loaded surface runoff. Pyramid Lake is the site of some of the Earth's most spectacular tufa deposits. Tufa is a rock composed of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) that forms at the mouth of a spring, from lake water, or from a mixture of spring and lake water. The explorer John C. Fremont (1845) wrote about the tufas during his 1843-44 expedition and named the lake after the pyramidal-shaped island that lies along the east shore of the lake. The Paiute name for the island is Wono, meaning cone-shaped basket. The Paiute name for the lake is Cui-Ui Panunadu, meaning fish in standing water.

A picture of students posing outside of the Las Vegas School. Identified from left to right: 1. Iona Jurden 2. Ruth Boyd 3. Tusy Boyd of Highbie 4. Bess Dupuis 5. June Huff 6. Nona Harkins (Mrs.) 7. Lola Ball 8. Miss Britt 9. Ruth Norris 10. Glen Trout 11. Edward Hartsman 12. Prof. B. Street 13. Ray Cragin 14. Cecil Rowe 15. Herbert Burnside 16. Joe Jackson 17. Hon. R.R. Robertson, Jr. 18. Clarence Vandeventer 19. Sarah Peters 20. Verna Pollock 21. Verda Potter 22. Mildred Hinge 23. Zona Pollock 24. Ella Coughlin 25. Gladys Cyphus 26. Doris Cyphus 27. Fay Cyphus 28. Pauline Stephens 29. Eanis Liday 30. Rob Griffith 31. Hazel Potter 32. Alice Fell 33. Grace West (E.N.S.) 34. Helen Boyd 35. Barbara Bell 36. Daisy French 37. Alice Montgomery 38. Allison Moffet 39. Ida Brashaw 40. Miss Johnson 41. Miss Jackson 42. Irma Funk 43. Iona Summerville 44. Frank Coughlin 45. Thomas J. Loane, Jr. 46. Harold Clark 47. Gerald Nelson 48. Vernon Nutthall 49. Otto Westlake 50. Prof. J.F. Mojes 51. Beulah Booth 52. Margaret Wilson Site Name: Las Vegas High School (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Jacques Ribons describes his life during the Nazi occupation of Poland. During the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto, his family decided to turn themselves in to the Germans. They were sent to a prison and separated. He and his brother survived and went to France with the OSE, and came to the United States in 1947.