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On 20 August 2014, scientists confirmed the existence of microorganisms living 800 meters below the ice of Antarctica.
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Its forces encountered little resistance and by the time the Greeks accepted the Bulgarian request for armistice they had reached Vrazhdebna, 7 miles from the center of Sofia.
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The highest point of the Balkans is Mount Musala, 2925 meters , in the Rila mountain range, Bulgaria.
2,925
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0
The Balkan Peninsula has a combined area of about 470000 sqkm (slightly smaller than Spain).
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0
Its total area is usually given as 666700 sqkm and the population as 59,297,000 (est.
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On June 29, when Lee learned that the Army of the Potomac had crossed the Potomac River, he ordered a concentration of his forces around Cashtown, located at the eastern base of South Mountain and 8 miles west of Gettysburg.
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The Union line ran from Culp's Hill southeast of the town, northwest to Cemetery Hill just south of town, then south for nearly 2 miles along Cemetery Ridge, terminating just north of Little Round Top.
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Thus, the Union army had interior lines, while the Confederate line was nearly 5 miles long.
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The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) and its partners have acquired and preserved 1022 acres of the battlefield in more than 30 separate transactions since 1997. [
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Scientists are currently investigating whether "hexagonal" clouds may be the source of these up-to- 170 mph "air bombs".
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Some writers say that while the two aircraft did collide there were two distinct crash sites, separated by over 160 miles of water.
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The 44 meters tall monument to Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert Chichester, H. M. (2004) 'Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, first baronet (1785–1853)’, rev.
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It is 208 sqkm in size, and dates from the Carboniferous period of geological history.
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3
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The River Fowey rises at a height of 290 meters and flows through Lostwithiel and into the Fowey estuary.
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The River Camel rises on Hendraburnick Down and flows for approximately 40 kilometers before joining the sea at Padstow.
40
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It settled on a location north of Oakland along the foot of the Contra Costa Range (later called the Berkeley Hills) astride Strawberry Creek, at an elevation about 500 feet above the bay, commanding a view of the Bay Area and the Pacific Ocean through the Golden Gate.
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The highest peak along the ridge line above Berkeley is Grizzly Peak, elevation 1754 feet .
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January is normally the wettest month, averaging 5 inches of precipitation.
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Average annual precipitation is 25 inches , falling on an average of 63.7 days each year.
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35
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The most rainfall in one month was 14 inches in February 1998.
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34
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The most rainfall in 24 hours was 6 inches on January 4, 1982.
6
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George C. Edwards Stadium – Located at intersection of Bancroft Way and Fulton Street on University of California, Berkeley campus ( 80 acres , 3 buildings, 4 structures, 3 objects; added 1993).
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Site of the Clark Kerr Campus, UC Berkeley – until 1980, this location housed the State Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, also known as The California Schools for the Deaf and Blind – Bounded by Dwight Way, the city line, Derby Street, and Warring Street ( 500 acres , 20 buildings; added 1982).
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In the coastal southeast lies Cox's Bazar, the longest beach in the world at 125 kilometers .
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The highest point in Bangladesh is in Mowdok range at 1052 meters . [
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The state has a total area of 88752 sqkm .
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This region contains Sandakfu ( 3636 meters )—the highest peak of the state.
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The MLRS, first used in Operation Granby, has an 85 kilometers range.
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The AS-90 is a 155 mm self-propelled armoured gun with a 24 kilometers range.
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When the secularization of church lands took place (1802) the diocese covered 3305 sqkm and had a population of 207,000.
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It is situated on the Regnitz river, 3 kilometers before it flows into the Main river.
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Mining came to an end in 1920 but a 7 miles tunnel network remained.
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Growth occurs at the rate of 1.0 mm per month, a typical seven-month growth run producing emerald crystals of 7 mm of thickness.
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In Roman Gaul, Augusta Raurica was established some 20 kilometers from Basel as the regional administrative centre, while a castra (fortified camp) was built on the site of the Celtic oppidum.
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Basel has an area, as of 2009 lc=on , of 23 sqkm .
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The city averages 120.4 days of rain or snow annually and on average receives 842 mm of precipitation.
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The wettest month is May during which time Basel receives an average of 99 mm of rain.
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The driest month of the year is February with an average of 45 mm of precipitation over 8.4 days.
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In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 meters square as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics.
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The Roche Tower, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is 41 floors and 178 meters high, upon its opening in 2015 it has become the tallest building in Switzerland.
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Ben Nevis ( , ; ) is the highest mountain in the British Isles, the summit is 1345 meters above sea level.
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The 700 meters cliffs of the north face are among the highest in Scotland, providing classic scrambles and rock climbs of all difficulties for climbers and mountaineers.
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Both mountains are among the nine in Scotland over 4000 feet ; Aonach Beag and Aonach Mòr are also on the Nevis massif.
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To the north, by contrast, cliffs drop some 600 meters to Coire Leis (pronounced Koruh Laysh.)
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A descent of 200 metres from this corrie leads to the Charles Inglis Clark Memorial Hut (known as the CIC Hut), a private mountain hut 680 meters above sea level, owned by the Scottish Mountaineering Club and used as a base for the many climbing routes on the mountain's north face.
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In addition to the main 1345 meters summit, Ben Nevis has two subsidiary "tops" listed in Munro's Tables, both of which are called Càrn Dearg ("red hill").
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The higher of these, at 1221 meters , is to the northwest, and is often mistaken for Ben Nevis itself in views from the Fort William area.
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The other Càrn Dearg ( 1020 meters ) juts out into Glen Nevis on the mountain's southwestern side.
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A lower hill, Meall an t-Suidhe ( 711 meters ), is further west, forming a saddle with Ben Nevis which contains a small loch, Lochan Meall an t-Suidhe.
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It begins at Achintee on the east side of Glen Nevis about 2 kilometers from Fort William town centre, at around 20 metres above sea level.
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The summit of Ben Nevis comprises a large stony plateau of about 40 hectares .
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The summit is the highest ground for over 400 miles , before the Scandinavian Mountains in western Norway are reached, which contain many peaks higher than Ben Nevis.
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Under ideal conditions, it can extend to over 190 kilometers , including such mountains as the Torridon Hills, Morven in Caithness, Lochnagar, Ben Lomond, Barra Head and to Knocklayd in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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Other classic routes were put up by G. Graham Macphee, Dr James H. B. Bell and others between the Wars; these include Bell's 'Long Climb', at 1400 feet reputedly the longest sustained climb on the British mainland.
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The 300 employees occupy 230000 sqft of leased office space. "[
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Additional distinguishing features of the blue whale include a broad, flat head, which appears U-shaped from above; 270–395 entirely black baleen plates on each side of their upper jaw; 60–88 expandable throat pleats; long, slender flippers; a small (up to 13 inches ) falcate dorsal fin positioned far back toward the t...
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A blue whale skull measuring 19 feet
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Neither the horns nor the trumpet could produce the 1st note of the harmonic series ... A horn giving the C of an open 8 ft organ pipe had to be 16 feet .
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In April 2012, Marc Jenner from Tunbridge Wells in Kent ran in the Virgin London Marathon dressed in a 7 feet Bagpuss costume to raise money for the charity, supported by Emily Firmin (seen in the programme’s opening titles) and Postgate's family.
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caption = The Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornets "1–4" fly in a tight diamond formation, maintaining 18 inches wing tip to canopy separation.
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The minimum ceilings allowed for low and flat shows are 3,500 feet (~1 km) and 1500 feet , respectively.
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Control sticks are tensioned with 35 pounds of force installed on the control stick as to allow the pilot minimal room for uncommanded movement.
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Two hornets slow down to 125 knots as they pitch up together to 45 degrees.
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The Valkyrie was a six-engine bomber that could cruise at Mach 3 at high altitude ( 70000 feet ).
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During the Vietnam War, the concept that all future wars would be nuclear was turned on its head, and the "big belly" modifications increased the B-52's total bomb load to 60000 pounds , turning it into a powerful tactical aircraft which could be used against ground troops along with strategic targets from high altitud...
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With a range of 1500 miles , the ALCM could be launched well outside the range of any Soviet defenses and penetrate at low altitude like a bomber (with a much lower radar cross-section due to smaller size), and in much greater numbers at a lower cost.
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The MJU-23A/B flare is one of the world's largest infrared countermeasure flares at a weight of over 3 pounds .
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By 1991, the B-1 had a fledgling conventional capability, forty of them able to drop the 500 pounds Mk-82 General Purpose (GP) bomb, although mostly from low altitude.
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The B-1 has deployed an array of conventional weapons in war zones, most notably the GBU-31, 2000 pounds Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM).
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bombs=3 internal bomb bays for 75000 pounds of ordnance.
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This 57 feet sandstone cross commemorates the first use of the Book of Common Prayer in California by Sir Francis Drake's chaplain on June 24, 1579.
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BSA bought 25 acres of land at Small Heath, Birmingham, built a factory there and made a road on the site calling it Armoury Road.
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The Yuille family, Scottish settlers Archibald Buchanan Yuille and his brother William Cross Yuille, arrived in 1837 and squatted a 10000 acres sheep run.
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Prolonged drought (an average annual rainfall with falls averaging as low as 400 mm per year since 2001) caused Lake Wendouree to dry up completely for the first time in its history between 2006 and 2007.
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More recently higher rainfall levels have been recorded including 95 mm in the 24 hours to 9 am on 14 January 2011, ending a four-day period of flooding rains across much of Victoria and Tasmania, Millar, Paul and Sexton, Reid Victoria and Tasmania struggle with heavy rain The Courier 14 January 2011.
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and contributing to the wettest January on record, with a total of 206 mm of rain for the month.
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Ballarat's highest maximum recorded temperature was 44 °C on 7 February 2009 during the 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave.
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The lowest-ever recorded minimum was -6.3 °C at sunrise on 19 July 2015. [
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Approximately half ( 38000 hectares ) of the municipality's area is rural with optimal conditions for agriculture including rich volcanic soils and climate.
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The largest, Waubra Wind Farm, completed in 2009, ( 35 kilometers W – 192 MW, 128 turbines) is capable of producing enough electricity to power a city 3 to 4 times the size of Ballarat.
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The first community-owned wind farm in Australia, the Hepburn Wind Project at Leonards Hill, completed in 2011, ( 24 kilometers NE – 4 MW, 2 turbines) produces the equivalent amount of electricity used by the town of Daylesford.
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and the Lal Lal Wind Farm ( 24 kilometers SE – 150 MW, 64 turbines).
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The main campus is located in Mount Helen, approximately 6 kilometers southeast of the city.
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The main street is Sturt Street and is considered one of the finest main avenues in Australia with over 2 kilometers of central gardens known as the Sturt Street Gardens featuring bandstands, fountains, statues, monuments, memorials and lampposts.
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The 15 kilometers Ballarat Avenue of Honour consists of a total of approximately 4,000 trees, mostly deciduous which in many parts arch completely over the road.
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Swimming and water sport is facilitated at two Olympic-sized pools as well as an indoor 25 meters competition short course pool.
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Victorian Transport Plan – Ballarat:Wendouree Station http://www4.transport.vic.gov.au/vtp/projects/wendouree.html From Ballarat station, V/Line operates VLocity trains running at up to 160 kmph east to Melbourne, west to Ararat and north to Maryborough.
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The report made a series of recommendations and forecasts that included eventual lengthening, widening and strengthening of the existing main runway up to 1800 meters , consideration for expansion of the passenger terminal and recommendations for future use of aprons and development of future structures supporting lar...
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The current cycling network continues to grow and consists of several marked on-road routes and 50 kilometers of segregated bicycle facilities including several main routes: the Ballarat–Skipton Rail Trail and the Yarrowee River Trail with connections to the Gong Gong Reservoir.
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The long-debated location of Abritus was believed to have been established ( 1.0 kilometers east of the city of Razgrad) after the excavations published by T. Ivanov in 1969 and 1971.
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Ivanov and Stojanof 1985, p.1 However recent work has shown that the location of the battle is about 15 kilometers northwest of Abritus, in the valley of the river Beli Lom, to the south of the village of Dryanovets near the site known locally as "Poleto" (the Field). [
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After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were planning to use Kadena Air Base on the large island of Okinawa as a base for Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands, 340 miles away.
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The first Americans ashore were soldiers of the 77th Infantry Division, who landed in the Kerama Islands, 15 miles west of Okinawa on March 26.
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On March 31, Marines of the Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion landed without opposition on Keise Shima, four islets just 8 miles west of the Okinawan capital of Naha.
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A group of 155 mm "Long Tom" artillery pieces went ashore on the islets to cover operations on Okinawa.
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1 and about 5 miles northwest of Shuri, from what came to be known as Cactus Ridge.
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The 7th Infantry Division encountered similarly fierce Japanese opposition from a rocky pinnacle located about 1000 yards southwest of Arakachi (later dubbed "The Pinnacle").
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General John R. Hodge now had three divisions in the line, with the 96th in the middle, and the 7th to the east, with each division holding a front of only about 1 miles .
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Rising 476 feet above the Yonabaru coastal plain, this feature was the eastern anchor of the main Japanese defenses and was defended by about 1,000 Japanese.
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Brabham, Nye (2004) p. 140 Later, Brabham offered a Coventry-Climax FWE-engined version of the Herald, with 83 horsepower and uprated suspension to match the extra power.
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