Date: 1848-1885 Building Type: Monument Construction System: Masonry Cut Stone Climate: Temperate Context: Neo-Egyptian Fact: At 555 feet tall, the highest all-masonry tower in the world. It is 55 feet wide at the base. ... The only metal portion is the uppermost tip " a 100-ounce pyramid of aluminum, which in the 1880s was, considered such a rare and precious metal that it was exhibited at Tiffany's jewelry store in New York before installation. ... The bridge sways 27 feet to withstand winds of up to 100 miles per hour. ... The two towers of the bridge rise an impress...

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The institution will encompass classrooms, labs, offices and about 100 apartments. ... Masdar City will spread over 46 hectares including organic farms, 550 residential villas, educational facilities, and 600,000 square feet of solar panels that will power the city. ... There will not be a structure within the city that is more than five stories high and majority of the roads will be about ten feet wide and no longer than 200 feet. Individuals residing in in this dense casbah-style grid will not be any greater than 600 feet from public transport. ... Within 200 metres they can access a car par...

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" Its foundation penetrates 30 feet below the surface, weighing more than the Needle itself and helping center the building's gravity five feet above ground (Leibach).... The initial plan was to make the tower 1828 feet high, which would have made it the tallest freestanding structure in the world, but some fundamental issues forced the designers to reduce it to 1149 feet. ... The engineers recommended 100 year speed of 79 mph. ... The home stood 62 feet high, 122 feet wide, and 119 feet deep. ... Though the brick foundation was twelve feet, it was poorly constructed. ...

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When this crumbling earthquake happens, it does so with such a force that it displaces water as far as 20,000 feet above it. ... Now, taking that mass, multiplying its size by 10 and its weight by 1,000 and elevating the springboard about 100-200 meters, this will elicit a serious splash. ... Run-Up After a considerable seismic event, the waves out in the deep sea may only be a few feet high. ... Normal wind-generated waves may have a wavelength of only 100 meters at most, but tsunamis can span as much as 100 miles from crest to crest. So, as the initial wave runs up the shore it has a ...

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The site was laid over several landlords' properties in order to establish the 100-ft-subterranean-passage, into which water from the Falls was routed. ... The dimensions of these mills were all slightly different; No. 1 and No. 2 were both 154-feet-long, 27-feet-wide, and 60-feet-tall; No. 3 was a little smaller while No. 4 was 156-feet-long, 33-feet-wide and 70-feet-tall. ...

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There was also a marshmallow factory, Kidd & Co. less than 500 feet away from the PEPCON facility. ... The location of the repair was only about 60 feet away from open barrels of possibly contaminated AP. ... Because of all of these unique factors, causing the fire to spread so rapidly, the flame front was moving throughout the plant at almost 4 feet per second, on average. ... This explosion also ruptured a large gas pipeline underneath the plant, resulting in a large fireball of natural gas, which continued to burn as a 100 foot flame for over an hour, before the line could be shut off. ...

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New Orleans is located in one of the lowest spots in the U.S. and although half of the city lies above sea level, its average elevation is six feet below sea level; it's completely surrounded by water (Hurricane Katrina). ... The river and lake ultimately feed into the Gulf of Mexico, which lies approximately 100 miles from New Orleans. ... In most areas, the levee only measured three feet and failed to contain the river during periods of heavy flooding. ... Researchers have strong evidence that Katrina's surge from the north was 7 feet below the necessary height needed to overtop th...

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Being physically active is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Individuals who participate in moderate or vigorous intensity physical activity can reduce their risk for disease and premature death (USDHHS, 1996). Physical activity has been shown to have the following health benefits: Reduces the risk of dying prematurely. Reduces the risk of heart disease. Reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. ...

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Even though Best Buy annually has over 1 billion visitors, only 1% or 1 in every 100 makes a purchase according to UBS AG a global financial firm But, its main weakness is online sales. ... Even though Best Buy annually has over 1 billion visitors, only 1% or 1 in every 100 makes a purchase according to UBS AG a global financial firm. ...

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However, this doesn't apply to 100% of Chinese women. ... The next step was the binding of the feet. ... "The binding was a strip of cloth about two inches wide and nine feet long. ... Some of these reasons were that "it was more desirable to men for women to have small feet, marriage, status, and beauty." ...

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Even though Best Buy annually has over 1 billion visitors, only 1% or 1 in every 100 makes a purchase according to UBS AG a global financial firm But, its main weakness is online sales. ... Even though Best Buy annually has over 1 billion visitors, only 1% or 1 in every 100 makes a purchase according to UBS AG a global financial firm. ...

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Explosive effects from the 1200-pound bomb caused a crater 180 feet deep, 100 feet long, and 200 feet wide in the underground parking garage. ... According to Fred Holliday, approximately 400,000 square feet of space required complete structural demolition and reconstruction. ... They ride past 200 acres of lawn to park approximately 8,770 cars in 16 parking lots; climb 131 stairways or ride 19 escalators to reach offices that occupy 3,705,793 square feet. ...

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Lunar Module is 17.9 ft high, 14 feet wide and 13.3 ft deep. ... Saturn V was 363 feet high and 33 feet in diameter and weighs about 40 tons. ... The S-IVB contained Liquid hydrogen tank, unlike other two stages, S-IVB separated with a single step, nearly 12 minutes after takeoff, the craft went into orbit 100 miles up, when all systems were working fine, the astronauts restarted the third stage, which pushed the rocket out of the Earth's gravity and send Apollo mission to the moon. ... Mercury spacecraft was only 11.5 feet long and 6.5 feet in diameter. ... Gemini spacecraft was bigge...

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Dan Wilmot estimated that the unidentified flying object was about 20-25 feet across. ... Topic=Belgium) The object was approximately 700 feet off to one side of the road, and 1000 feet above a field. ... Local police reported the sightings to the RADAR station in Glons; they confirmed the sightings on RADAR at an altitude of 10,000 feet. ...

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In addition, because the country was a poor subsistence-agriculture nation until the middle of the 19th century, cultural activities have really only blossomed in the last 100 years. In addition, because the country was a poor subsistence-agriculture nation until the middle of the 19th century, cultural activities have really only blossomed in the last 100 years. ...

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More than 100 nativity sets collected by Father Joe over 20 years were moved from the Village to 3350 E Street, San Diego, the new home office of St. ... Now, 100 percent of TAAS students graduating from its high school go on to college or vocational school. ...

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If you've been to the corner of Clark and Addison on the North side of Chicago in the last 100 years, then you know the splendor that is Wrigley Field. ... He was nicknamed "Long Tom " because he stood a soaring 6 feet and one inch above the mound. ... Before being signed to the Cubs, he played for a New York minor league team and weighed a mere 100 pounds. ...

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We live in a culture that is obsessed with looking young and beautiful. As women and celebrities age they feel the need to maintain their youthful appearance to live up to the standards of our society. In our youth crazed society, millions of people try to get rid of their wrinkles through the use o...

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- with solid pavement under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbors ready to cheer you or to fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman, in the holy terror of scandal and gallows and lunatic asylums - how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammelled feet may take him into by the way of solitude - utter solitude without a policeman - by the way of silence - utter silence, where no warning voice of a kind neighbor can be heard whispering of public opinion? ... (p 24) Marlow is horrified by the sight of a curled up man dying at h...

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The seven hangings were each 16.5 feet high, and up to 80 feet long. ... They are usually 100% wool or wool and silk, they have very fine details with a dense weave and are expensive due to the time, skill, and materials involved. ...

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ASSIGNMENT COVER Course name: DATA COMMUNICATION Assignment title: WIRELESS NETWORKS Comments: Grade: /100 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. ... There for the towers should have enough altitude (eg if they have altitude of 100 m they can be placed in distance of 80 km.). ...

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Introduction Since ages Space have been a mysterious and interesting subject that we human beings only could stare at, until the development of the telescope all astronomical observations were made with the eye. By using measuring instruments, astronomers documented the positions of the planets aga...

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More than 100 billion kilograms of them are shipped around the world every year, delivered to processing plants and then heated up, treated with other chemicals, stretched and moulded into our familiar products, containers and packaging " (Grant, Richard). ... Each year, 100 million tones of plastic are used worldwide. ...

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We have divided them and have concluded; there are eight different rooms, four are larger stretching approximately 62 feet in length, the four smaller similar rooms are roughly (on average) 18-25 feet in length. ...

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Over the past several years, temperatures around the world kept rising. Sometimes it's unbearable for people on this planet. "The temperature during an eight-day heat wave in Chicago in July 1995 hovered around 100 degrees Fahrenheit. High levels of humidity made the air feel even hotter, creatin...

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