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The prosaically named High Cliff, between Boscastle and St Gennys, is the highest sheer-drop cliff in Cornwall at 223 meters .
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The case of R v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273 (QB) is an English case which dealt with four crew members of an English yacht, the Mignonette, who were cast away in a storm some 1600 miles from the Cape of Good Hope.
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The remainder of us were taken to another spot 50 miles away where 10 prisoners died of sickness.
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The 60 inches cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, in August 1939.
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In their experiments, they used a 60 inches cyclotron.
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Californium was discovered when a microgram-sized target of curium-242 was irradiated with 35 MeV alpha particles using the 60 inches cyclotron at Berkeley:
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Two crystalline forms exist for californium under normal pressure: one above and one below 900 Coulomb .
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Californium metal starts to vaporize above 300 Coulomb when exposed to a vacuum.
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To produce californium, a microgram-sized target of curium-242 ( ) was bombarded with 35 MeV-alpha particles ( ) in the 60 inches cyclotron at Berkeley, which produced californium-245 ( ) plus one free neutron (neutron).
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Californium-251 has a very small calculated critical mass of about 5 kilograms , high lethality, and a relatively short period of toxic environmental irradiation.
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Cambridge grew slowly as an agricultural village 8 miles by road from Boston, the colony's capital.
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Between 1790 and 1840, Cambridge grew rapidly, with the construction of the West Boston Bridge in 1792 connecting Cambridge directly to Boston, so that it was no longer necessary to travel 8 miles through the Boston Neck, Roxbury, and Brookline to cross the Charles River.
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The city owns over 1200 acres of land in other towns that includes these reservoirs and portions of their watershed.
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It is then treated in an adjacent plant and pumped uphill to an elevation of 176 feet above sea level at the Payson Park Reservoir (Belmont).
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A vealer is a fat calf weighing less than about 330 kilograms which is at about eight to nine months of age.
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Heifers will weigh at least 200 kilograms at eight months of age.
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This first difference engine would have been composed of around 25,000 parts, weighed fifteen tons (13,600 kg), and would have been 8 feet tall.
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The Channel Tunnel ( ) is a 50 kilometers railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France), beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
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At 37 kilometers , the tunnel has the longest underwater section of any tunnel in the world.
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The speed limit for trains through the tunnel is 160 kmph .
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On the French side, a similar machine dug 1669 meters from Sangatte.
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By this time the British tunnel boring machine was ready and the Ministry of Transport was able to do a 300 meters experimental drive.
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Euroroute, a 21 kilometers tunnel between artificial islands approached by bridges.
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The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), now called High Speed 1, runs 69 miles from St Pancras railway station in London to the tunnel portal at Folkestone in Kent.
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High Speed 1 trains travel at up to 300 kmph , the journey from London to Paris taking 2 hours 15 minutes, to Brussels 1 hour 51 minutes.
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The chalk marl runs along the entire length of the English side of the tunnel, but on the French side a length of 5 kilometers has variable and difficult geology.
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The average depth is 45 meters below the seabed.
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Ideally the tunnel would be bored in the bottom 15 meters of the chalk marl, allowing water inflow from fractures and joints to be minimised, but above the gault clay that would increase stress on the tunnel lining and swell and soften when wet.
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Marine soundings and samplings by Thomé de Gamond were carried out during 1833–67, establishing the seabed depth at a maximum of 55 meters and the continuity of geological strata (layers).
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63–128 with the service tunnel always preceding the main ones by at least 1.0 kilometers to ascertain the ground conditions.
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On the English side, a marshalling area was 140 meters below the top of Shakespeare Cliff, the New Austrian Tunnelling method (NATM) was first applied in the chalk marl here.
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The TBMs were of a closed nature during the initial 5 kilometers , but then operated as open, boring through the chalk marl stratum.
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The French effort required five TBMs: two main marine machines, one main land machine (the short land drives of 3 kilometers allowed one TBM to complete the first drive then reverse direction and complete the other), and two service tunnel machines.
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Wilson p. 44 A 900 mm gauge railway was used on the English side during construction.
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The loading gauge height is 5 meters .
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Article: Railway electric traction 9 August 2009 with a normal overhead clearance of 6 meters .
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UIC60 (60 kg/m) rails of 900A grade rest on 6 mm rail pads, which fit the RN/Sonneville bolted dual leaf-springs.
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255–270 At Folkestone there are 20 kilometers of main-line track, 45 turnouts and eight platforms.
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At Calais there are 30 kilometers of track and 44 turnouts.
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He was arrested close to the British side, after having walked about 30 miles through the tunnel.
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The event occurred 11 kilometers from the French entrance to the tunnel.
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The maximum speed is 80 kmph when the steering is locked.
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The LADOGS have a short wheelbase with a 3 meters turning circle, allowing two-point turns within the service tunnel.
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Steering cannot be locked like the STTS vehicles, and maximum speed is 50 kmph .
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The design limit was set at 30 Coulomb , using a mechanical cooling system with refrigeration plants on both sides that run chilled water circulating in pipes within the tunnel.
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212–230 Piston relief ducts of 2 meters diameter were chosen to solve the problem, with 4 ducts per kilometre to give close to optimum results.
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The crossing took under an hour, reaching speeds of 64 kmph –faster than most cross-channel ferries.
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The world's longest comic strip is 88 meters long and on display at Trafalgar Square as part of the London Comedy Festival.
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The Canary Islands ( ; , ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish archipelago and the southernmost autonomous community of Spain located in the Atlantic Ocean, in a region known as Macaronesia, 100 kilometers west of Morocco at the closest point.
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The island of Fuerteventura is the second largest in the archipelago and located 100 kilometers from the African coast.
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The island rises to almost 4000 meters above sea level, and at altitude, in the cool relatively wet climate, forests of the endemic pine Pinus canariensis thrive.
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In October a submarine eruption occurred about 2 kilometers south of Restinga.
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The park's highlight is the Teide volcano; standing at an altitude of 3718 meters , it is the highest elevation of the country and the third largest volcano on Earth from its base.
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The total area of the archipelago is 7493 sqkm , resulting in a population density of 287.4 inhabitants per square kilometre.
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El Hierro, the westernmost island, covers 268 sqkm , making it the second smallest of the major islands, and the least populous with 10,798 inhabitants.
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Fuerteventura, with a surface of 1660 sqkm , is the second-most extensive island of the archipelago.
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Being also the most ancient of the islands, it is the one that is more eroded: its highest point is the Peak of the Bramble, at a height of 807 meters .
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Gran Canaria's surface area is 1560 sqkm .
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La Gomera has an area of 369 sqkm and is the second least populous island with 21,136 inhabitants.
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It has a surface of 845 sqkm , and a population of 149,183 inhabitants, including the adjacent islets of the Chinijo Archipelago.
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It has a surface of 40 sqkm , and a population of 658 inhabitants all of them on La Graciosa.
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With 29 sqkm , La Graciosa, is the smallest inhabited island of the Canaries, and the major island of the Chinijo Archipelago.
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La Palma, with 81,863 inhabitants covering an area of 708 sqkm , is in its entirety a biosphere reserve.
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In addition, it is the second-highest island of the Canaries, with the Roque de los Muchachos 2423 meters as highest point.
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Tenerife is, with its area of 2034 sqkm , the most extensive island of the Canary Islands.
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The Teide, with its 3718 meters is the highest peak of Spain and also a World Heritage Site.
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The first licensed Call of Cthulhu 25 mm gaming miniatures were sculpted by Andrew Chernack and released by Grenadier Models in boxed sets and blister packs in 1983.
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The 10311 sqkm island accounts for 18.7% of Nova Scotia's total area.
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Although the island is physically separated from the Nova Scotia peninsula by the Strait of Canso, the 1385 meters long rock-fill Canso Causeway connects it to mainland Nova Scotia.
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The island measures 10311 sqkm in area, making it the 77th largest island in the world and Canada's 18th largest island.
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In 1936, the federal government established the Cape Breton Highlands National Park covering 949 sqkm across the northern third of the Highlands.
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The endocervical mucosa is about 3 mm thick and lined with a single layer of columnar mucous cells.
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410–411 A buildup of mucus in the glands forms Nabothian cysts, usually less than about 5 mm in diameter, which are considered physiological rather than pathological.
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During childbirth, the cervix must dilate to a diameter of more than 10 cms to accommodate the head of the fetus as it descends from the uterus to the vagina.
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The second phase of labor begins when the cervix has dilated to 10 cms , which is regarded as its fullest dilation, and is when active pushing and contractions push the baby along the birth canal leading to the birth of the baby.
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It is estimated that a cave cannot be more than 3000 meters vertically beneath the surface due to the pressure of overlying rocks.
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Kazumura Cave near Hilo, Hawaii is a remarkably long and deep lava tube; it is 65 kilometers .
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For example, China, despite containing around half the world's exposed limestone—more than 1000000 sqkm —has relatively few documented caves.
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The cave system with the greatest total length of surveyed passage is Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, US, at 652 kilometers . [
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The longest surveyed underwater cave, and second longest overall, is Sistema Sac Actun in Yucatán, Mexico at 335 kilometers .
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The deepest known cave — measured from its highest entrance to its lowest point — is Veryovkina Cave in Abkhazia, Georgia, with a depth of 2204 meters . [
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http://www.caverbob.com/wdeep.htm World's Deepest Caves List from The National Speleological Society] This was the first cave to be explored to a depth of more than 2 kilometers . (
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The first cave to be descended below 1.0 kilometers was Gouffre Berger in France.)
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The deepest outside Georgia is Lamprechtsofen Vogelschacht Weg Schacht in Austria, which is 1623 meters deep.
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The deepest vertical shaft in a cave is 603 meters in Vrtoglavica Cave in Slovenia.
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The second deepest is Ghar-e-Ghala at 562 meters in the Parau massif near Kermanshah in Iran.
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The deepest underwater cave bottomed by a remotely operated underwater vehicle at 404 meters , is the Hranice Abyss in the Czech Republic.
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The nearby Clearwater Cave System is believed to be the world's largest cave by volume, with a calculated volume of 3800000 meters cube .
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Cave insects such as Oligaphorura (formerly Archaphorura) schoetti are troglophiles, reaching 1 mm in length.
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Chinese and Arabic numerals may coexist, as on this kilometer marker: 1620 kilometers on Hwy G209 (G二〇九)
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Its 40 units weighed 30 tons, occupied 1800 sqft , and consumed $650 per hour (in 1940s currency) in electricity when idle.
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In 1917 Hale hired architect Bertram Goodhue to produce a master plan for the 22 acres campus.
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The highest point in Mayo (and Connacht) is Mweelrea, at 814 meters
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Mayo has Ireland's highest cliffs at Croaghaun, Achill Island, while the Benwee Head cliffs in Kilcommon Erris drop almost perpendicularly 900 feet into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Colombia has a land size of 1138910 sqkm and it is the 25th largest nation in the world and the fourth-largest country in South America (after Brazil, Argentina, and Peru). [
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Colombia has the 35th largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 808158 sqkm .
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The chief western mountain range, the Cordillera Occidental, is a moderately high range with peaks reaching up to about 15000 feet (4,670 m).
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Several snow-clad volcanoes in the Cordillera Central have summits that rise above 17000 feet .
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Altitudes reach more than 18700 feet , and mountain peaks are permanently covered with snow.
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Summits are only about 9840 feet above sea level and do not have permanent snows.
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