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Lost World Caverns: Lewisburg, West Virginia (WV) (257 words) |
 | Lost World Caverns features the nation's largest compound-stalactite, the 30-ton "Snowy Chandelier," which is one of the world's best displays of pure white calcite. |
 | The Guiness World Record for stalagmite sitting was set in the caverns in 1971 by Bobby Addis, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, who endured a vigil at the top of the 28-foot-tall "War Club" for 15 days, 23 hours, and 22 minutes. |
 | Lost World's expert guides will customize a four-and-a-half-hour adventure through caverns more than a mile beyond the developed commercial cave area. |
| The Lost World (Michael Crichton) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (524 words) |
 | The Lost World is a novel by Michael Crichton, published in 1995 by Ballantine Books. |
 | Like Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name, Crichton's novel concerns an expedition to an isolated Central American location where dinosaurs roam - though in this case, the dinosaurs were recreated by genetic engineering, rather than surviving from antiquity. |
 | The eccentric mathematician Ian Malcolm and the egocentric paleontologist Richard Levine head to Isla Sorna to invesigate extinction theories in the "Lost World" left by InGen's cloning program. |