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In 1879, the federal government floated bonds in London and called for tenders to construct the 206 kilometers section of the railway from Yale, British Columbia, to Savona's Ferry, on Kamloops Lake.
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They agreed to build the railway in exchange for $25 million (approximately $625 million in modern Canadian dollars) in credit from the Canadian government and a grant of 25 million acres of land.
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The steep drop would force the cash-strapped CPR to build a 7 kilometers long stretch of track with a very steep 41 percent gradient once it reached the pass in 1884.
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Van Horne stated that he would have 800 kilometers of main line built in 1882.
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Floods delayed the start of the construction season, but over 672 kilometers of main line, as well as sidings and branch lines, were built that year.
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There are also various long stretches of double track between Golden and Kamloops, British Columbia, and portions of the original Winnipeg-Thunder Bay double track (such as 20 miles through Kenora and Keewatin, Ontario) are still double track.
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Dominion Express Company was formed independently in 1873 before the CPR itself, although train service did not begin until the summer of 1882 at which time it operated over some 300 miles of track from Rat Portage (Kenora) Ontario west to Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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The locomotives ran 5189 kilometers across Canada, through 25 changes of crew, without engine failure.
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By Ian McInroy, Barrie Examiner, 1 December 2015 Each train is roughly 1000 feet in length with brightly decorated railway cars, including a modified box car that has been turned into a travelling stage for performers.
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It operates along a 1050 kilometers route from Calgary, through the Columbia Valley in British Columbia, and returning to Calgary via Crowsnest Pass.
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What once took 24 changes of engines in 1886, all of them 4-4-0s except for two of 2-8-0s in the mountains, for 2883 miles between Montreal and Vancouver became 8 changes.
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Comet nuclei with radii of up to 30 kilometers have been observed, but ascertaining their exact size is difficult.
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A lack of smaller comets being detected despite the increased sensitivity of instruments has led some to suggest that there is a real lack of comets smaller than 100 meters across.
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Further, the ALICE spectrograph on Rosetta determined that electrons (within 1.0 kilometers above the comet nucleus) produced from photoionization of water molecules by solar radiation, and not photons from the Sun as thought earlier, are responsible for the degradation of water and carbon dioxide molecules released fr...
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Although the solid nucleus of comets is generally less than 60 kilometers across, the coma may be thousands or millions of kilometers across, sometimes becoming larger than the Sun.
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Data from the Stardust mission show that materials retrieved from the tail of Wild 2 were crystalline and could only have been "born in fire", at extremely high temperatures of over 1000 Coulomb .
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The facility is 38690 meters square in area, equivalent to 4½ Canadian football fields, and the operating structure is the largest stainless steel building in North America.
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Frimy and Auguste Verneuil manufactured artificial ruby by fusing BaF 2 and Al 2 O 3 with a little chromium at temperatures above 2000 Coulomb .
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For a coal power plant with a 40% efficiency, it takes an estimated 325 kilograms of coal to power a 100 W lightbulb for one year.
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Mean monthly temperatures exceed 18 Coulomb during all months of the year.
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and monthly temperatures which are above 10 Coulomb for one to three months of the year, with permafrost in large parts of the area due to the cold winters.
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Winters within subarctic climates usually include up to six months of temperatures averaging below 0.0 Coulomb .
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A megathermal climate is one with persistent high temperatures and abundant rainfall, with potential annual evaporation in excess of 114 cms .
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Although the average annual precipitation is 2000 mm , water is a scarce commodity in many parts of the Comoros.
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In Canada and the United States, the sale and production of high-end CRT TVs ( 30 inches screens) in these markets had all but ended by 2007.
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Just a couple of years later, inexpensive "combo" CRT TVs ( 20 inches screens with an integrated VHS player) disappeared from discount stores.
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CRT screens had much deeper cabinets compared to flat panels and rear-projection displays for a given screen size; it was largely impractical to build or use CRTs larger than 40 inches .
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The Food and Drug Administration regulations in are used to strictly limit, for instance, television receivers to 0.5 milliroentgens per hour (mR/h) (0.13 µC/(kg·h) or 36 pA/kg) at a distance of 5 cms from any external surface; since 2007, most CRTs have emissions that fall well below this limit.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ) was born on 3 January 106 BC in Arpinum, a hill town 100 kilometers southeast of Rome.
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It is located in the North Caucasus, and within 100 kilometers of the Caspian Sea. [
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The plant is 15 kilometers north of the Chernobyl city.
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The CN Tower ( ) is a 553 meters concrete communications and observation tower located in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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The reflective nature of the new buildings compromised the quality of broadcast signals necessitating new, higher antennas that were at least 300 meters tall.
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This was a fairly unprecedented engineering feat on its own, consisting of a large metal platform that raised itself on jacks at about 6 meters per day as the concrete below set.
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The tower contains 40500 meters cube of concrete, all of which was mixed on-site in order to ensure batch consistency.
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Over the height of the tower, it varies from true vertical accuracy by only 29 mm .
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The tower was topped-off on April 2, 1975, after 26 months of construction, officially capturing the height record from Moscow's Ostankino Tower, and bringing the total mass to 118000 tonnes .
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The Glass Floor, at an elevation of 342 meters , opened to the public on June 26, 1994.
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In 2011, EdgeWalk (where at an elevation of 356 meters , visitors tethered to an overhead rail system can walk on the roof of the main pod) opened to the public.
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On top of the main concrete portion of the tower is a 102 meters tall metal broadcast antenna, carrying television and radio signals.
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Below the public areas — at 338 meters — is a large white donut-shaped radome containing the structure's UHF transmitters.
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The glass floor and outdoor observation deck are at 342 meters .
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The Horizons Cafe and the lookout level are at 346 meters .
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The 360 Restaurant, a revolving restaurant that completes a full rotation once every 72 minutes, is at 351 meters .
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A metal staircase reaches the main deck level after 1,776 steps, and the SkyPod 100 meters above after 2,579 steps; it is the tallest metal staircase on Earth.
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On August 1, 2011, the CN Tower opened the EdgeWalk, an amusement in which thrill-seekers can walk on and around the roof of the main pod of the tower at 356 meters , which is directly above the 360 Restaurant.
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Visitors are tethered to an overhead rail system and walk around the edge of the CN Tower's main pod above the 360 Restaurant on a 1 meters metal floor.
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The sun thawed the ice, and winds of up to 90 kmph blew some of it away from the structure.
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The Ostankino Tower was completed nine years before the CN Tower and is only 13 meters shorter.
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Emporis and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat both listed the CN Tower as the world's tallest free-standing structure on land, and specifically state that the CN Tower is not a true building, thereby awarding the title of world's tallest building to Taipei 101, which is 44 meters shorter than the CN Tower...
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Taller than the CN Tower are numerous radio masts and towers, which are held in place by guy-wires, the tallest being the KVLY-TV mast in Blanchard, North Dakota in the United States at 628 meters tall, leading to a distinction between these and "free-standing" structures.
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In 1887 Peirce spent part of his inheritance from his parents to buy 2000 acres of rural land near Milford, Pennsylvania, which never yielded an economic return.
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By the 1930s the United Fruit Company owned 3 million acres of land in Central America and the Caribbean and was the single largest land owner in Guatemala.
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At 4220 meters , Volcán Tajumulco is the highest peak in Central America.
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From 2001 to 2010, 5376 sqkm of forest were lost in the region.
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Most of the loss occurred in the moist forest biome, with 12201 sqkm .
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The bulk of the deforestation was located at the Caribbean slopes of Nicaragua with a loss of 8574 sqkm of forest in the period from 2001 to 2010.
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The most significant regrowth of 3050 sqkm of forest was seen in the coniferous woody vegetation of Honduras.
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The Central American pine-oak forests occupy an area of 111400 sqkm , extending along the mountainous spine of Central America, extending from the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in Mexico's Chiapas state through the highlands of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to central Nicaragua.
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Higher elevations above 1800 meters are usually covered with Central American montane forests.
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Laurel forest is the most common type of Central American temperate evergreen cloud forest, found in almost all Central American countries, normally more than 1000 meters above sea level.
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The entire ecoregion covers an area of 13200 sqkm and has a temperate climate with relatively high precipitation levels.
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Another onshore continuation of the Cayman Trough is the Chixoy-Polochic Fault, which runs parallel to, and roughly 80 kilometers to the north, of the Motagua Fault.
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The Inter-American Highway is the Central American section of the Pan-American Highway, and spans 5470 kilometers between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Panama City, Panama.
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Because of the 87 kilometers break in the highway known as the Darién Gap, it is not possible to cross between Central America and South America in an automobile.
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It was finally achieved by the Prince Torlonia in the 19th century, producing over 160000 acres of new arable land.
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On November 7, 1954, while in Egypt filming the Exodus sequence for The Ten Commandments, DeMille (who was seventy-three) climbed a 107 feet ladder to the top of the massive Per Rameses set and suffered a serious heart attack.
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As the first human to officially break the sound barrier, on October 14, 1947, he flew the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1 and an altitude of 45000 feet , for which he won both the Collier and Mackay trophies in 1948.
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Having unusually sharp vision (a visual acuity rated 20/10), which once enabled him to shoot a deer at 600 yards , Yeager displayed natural talent as a pilot and was accepted for flight training.
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Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the X-1 Glamorous Glennis at Mach 1.05 at an altitude of 45000 feet .
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The new record flight, however, did not entirely go to plan, since shortly after reaching Mach 2.44, Yeager lost control of the X-1A at about 80000 feet due to inertia coupling, a phenomenon largely unknown at the time.
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This raid lasted about 75 minutes, destroyed 600 acres of built-up area (61%), http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/worldwar2/theatres-of-war/western-europe/investigation/hamburg/sources/docs/6/ killed 486 civilians and made 59,000 people homeless.
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The metropolitan area encompasses over 405 sqkm , extending around a central point that lies at 50° 56' 33 latitude and 6° 57' 32 longitude.
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As of 31 December 2016, there were 1,080,701 people registered as living in Cologne in an area of 401 sqkm .
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Green areas account for over a quarter of Cologne, which is approximately 75 meters square of public green space for every inhabitant.
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Cologne's tallest structure is the Colonius telecommunication tower at 266 meters .
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(literally: Cologne Tower), Cologne's second tallest building at 165 meters in height, second only to the Colonius telecommunication tower.
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opposite to the cathedral with a 103 meters high viewing platform and a view of the cathedral over the Rhine.
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In total, the exposed area of the Shield covers approximately 8000000 sqkm .
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The Shield was originally an area of very large, very tall mountains (about 12000 meters )
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The range's highest peak is Nunavut's Barbeau Peak at 2616 meters above sea level.
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The kimberlite eruptions then bring the diamonds from over 150 kilometers depth to the surface.
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Nicholas was a 4th-century Greek bishop of Myra, a city in the Roman province of Lycia, whose ruins are 3 kilometers from modern Demre in southwest Turkey.
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It is in east central Colorado, on Fountain Creek, 60 miles south of Denver.
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Colorado Springs is near the base of Pikes Peak, which rises 14115 feet above sea level on the eastern edge of the Southern Rocky Mountains.
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The city covers 194 sqmi , making it the most extensive municipality in Colorado.
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Colorado Springs is 69 miles or one hour and five minutes south of Denver by car using I-25.
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The city has abundant sunshine year-round, averaging 243 sunny days per year, and receives approximately 16 inches of annual precipitation.
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Winters range from mild to moderately cold, with December, the coldest month, averaging 30 °F ; historically January has been the coldest month, but, in recent years, December has had both lower daily maxima and minima.
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Typically, there are 5.2 nights with sub- 0.0 °F lows and 23.6 days where the high does not rise above freezing.
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Snowfall is usually moderate and remains on the ground briefly because of direct sun, with the city receiving 38 inches per season, although the mountains to the west often receive in excess of triple that amount; March is the snowiest month in the region, both by total accumulation and number of days with measurable s...
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Due to the high elevation and aridity, nights are usually relatively cool and rarely does the low remain above 70 °F .
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The first autumn freeze and the last freeze in the spring, on average, occur on October 2 and May 6, respectively; the average window for measurable snowfall (≥ 0.1 inches ) is October 21 through April 25.
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The city's Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services managae 136 neighborhood parks, eight community parks, seven regional parks, and five sports complexes, totaling 9000 acres .
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