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Snowfalls of at least 1.0 inches on both December 10, 2008, and December 4, 2009, marked the first time measurable snowfall had occurred in two consecutive years in the city's recorded history.
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On February 14 and 15, 1895, Houston received 20 inches of snow, its largest snowfall from one storm on record.
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The coldest temperature officially recorded in Houston was 5 °F on January 18, 1930.
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Houston generally receives ample rainfall, averaging about 49 inches annually based on records between 1981 and 2010.
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The "Inner Loop" encompasses a 97 sqmi area which includes Downtown, pre–World War II residential neighborhoods and streetcar suburbs, and newer high-density apartment and townhouse developments.
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A succession of skyscrapers was built throughout the 1970s—many by real estate developer Gerald D. Hines—culminating with Houston's tallest skyscraper, the 75-floor, 1002 feet -tall JPMorgan Chase Tower (formerly the Texas Commerce Tower), completed in 1982.
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In 1983, the 71-floor, 992 feet -tall Wells Fargo Plaza (formerly Allied Bank Plaza) was completed, becoming the second-tallest building in Houston and Texas.
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The tallest building in Uptown is the 64-floor, 901 feet -tall, Philip Johnson and John Burgee designed landmark Williams Tower (known as the Transco Tower until 1999).
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Bayou Bend is a 14 acres facility of the Museum of Fine Arts that houses one of America's most prominent collections of decorative art, paintings, and furniture.
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Of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, Houston has the most total area of parks and green space, 56405 acres .
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The city also has over 200 additional green spaces—totaling over 19600 acres that are managed by the city—including the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center.
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The third-largest university in Texas, the University of Houston has nearly 44,000 students on its 667 acres campus in the Third Ward.
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Founded in 1912, Rice's historic, heavily wooded 300 acres campus, located adjacent to Hermann Park and the Texas Medical Center, hosts approximately 4,000 undergraduate and 3,000 post-graduate students.
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A commuting study estimated that the median length of commute in the region was 12 miles in 2012.
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Arterial roads handle an additional 40% of daily VMT, while toll roads, of which Greater Houston has 180 miles , handle nearly 10%.
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Completed segments D through G provide a continuous 70 miles limited-access tollway connection between Sugar Land, Katy, Cypress, Spring, and Porter.
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Therefore, Houston exercises transportation planning authority over a 2000 sqmi area over five counties, many times larger than its corporate area.
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METRO's service area covers 1303 sqmi containing a population of 3.6 million.
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METRO began light rail service in 2004 with the opening of the 8 miles north-south Red Line connecting Downtown, Midtown, the Museum District, the Texas Medical Center, and NRG Park.
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In the early 2010s, two additional lines—the Green Line, servicing the East End, and the Purple Line, servicing the Third Ward—opened, and the Red Line was extended northward to Northline, bringing the total length of the system to 22 miles .
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George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), located 23 miles north of Downtown Houston between Interstates 45 and 69, is the eighth busiest commercial airport in the United States (by total passengers and aircraft movements) and forty-third busiest globally.
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The five-terminal, five-runway, 11000 acres airport served 40 million passengers in 2016, including 10 million international travelers.
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2000 pounds
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Like the first removable pack drive, the first "Winchester" drives used platters 14 inches in diameter.
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Specially manufactured sealed and pressurized disks are needed for reliable high-altitude operation, above about 3000 meters .
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The first foragers visited the West Mouth of Niah Caves (located 110 kilometers southwest of Miri) 40,000 years ago when Borneo was connected to the mainland of Southeast Asia.
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The California Institute of Technology, another school known for its strength in the natural sciences and engineering, is located 26 miles away from Harvey Mudd College.
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The beings of this world are 4500 feet tall and live for 9,216,000,000 years (Sarvāstivāda tradition).
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The beings of this world are 3750 feet tall and live for 2,304,000,000 years (Sarvāstivāda tradition).
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The beings of this world are 3000 feet tall and live for 576,000,000 years (Sarvāstivāda tradition).
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The beings of this world are 750 feet tall and live for 9,000,000 years (Sarvāstivāda tradition) or 90,000 years (Vibhajyavāda tradition).
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The town of Zawiya, 48 kilometers from Tripoli, was bombarded by air force planes and army tanks and seized by Jamahiriya troops, "exercising a level of brutality not yet seen in the conflict."
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The distance across the floor of the House between the government and opposition benches is 13 feet , said to be equivalent to two swords' length, though this is likely to be purely symbolic given weapons have been banned in the chamber for hundreds of years.
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The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place 8 miles to the north-west at Senlac Hill in 1066.
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The start of the Norman Conquest was the Battle of Hastings, fought on 14 October 1066, although the battle itself took place 8 miles to the north at Senlac Hill, and William had landed on the coast between Hastings and Eastbourne at Pevensey.
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The town is generally built upon a series of low hills rising to 500 feet above sea level at "The Ridge" before falling back in the river valley further to the north.
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This block of flats can be seen up to 20 miles away on a clear day, from Holywell, in the Meads area of Eastbourne.
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The Saxon Shore Way, (a long distance footpath, 163 miles in length from Gravesend, Kent traces the Kent and Sussex coast "as it was in Roman times" to Hastings.
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The world record for straight distance is held by Dustin B. Martin, with a distance of 764 kilometers in 2012, originating from Zapata, Texas.
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France in the Ancien Régime covered a territory of around 520000 sqkm .
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Including metropolitan France, the total amount of land under French sovereignty reached 11500000 sqkm in 1920, with a population of 110 million people in 1939.
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By early September they were within 65 kilometers of Paris, and the French government had relocated to Bordeaux.
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The ancient yew tree in the churchyard is believed to be the oldest yew in the country, with a girth of some 9 meters .
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The 5 miles Hayling Billy Trail is a former light rail right-of-way which has been converted to one of many footpaths on the island. [
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date=June 2015 Terrier steam locomotives pulled carriages along the 5 miles Hayling Billy Line from Havant Station on the mainland to a station which was located at the northern end of Staunton Avenue, passing through Langstone where there was a Halt. "
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A tourist attraction – the East Hayling Light Railway – is a gauge railway that runs for just over 1.0 miles from Beachlands Station to Eastoke Corner with aspirations to extend the route to Ferry Point within the next few years.
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The county's geography is varied, with upland to 286 meters and mostly south-flowing rivers.
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On 16 October 1908, Samuel Franklin Cody made the first powered flight of 400 yards in the United Kingdom at Farnborough, then home to the Army Balloon Factory.
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Erosion of the weak rock and sea level change flooding the low land has carved several large estuaries and rias, notably the 16 kilometers long Southampton Water and the large convoluted Portsmouth Harbour.
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Butser Hill, at 271 meters , where the A3 crosses the South Downs, is probably the best known.
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The highest village in Hampshire at about 240 meters above sea level is Ashmansworth, Ordnance Survey. ''[
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Farlington Marshes, 125 hectares of flower-rich grazing marsh and saline lagoon at the north end of Langstone Harbour, is a nature reserve and an internationally important over-wintering site for wildfowl.
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H dies are dies designed for hydraulic presses and are offered in calibers up to 25 mm and jacket lengths of more than 1.3".
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In 1890, so-called Potin lumps were found, whose largest weights 59 kilograms at the Prehistoric pile dwelling settlement Alpenquai in Zürich, Switzerland.
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the Urban Honolulu Census-designated place (CDP) has a total area of 177 sqkm .
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of it (88.44%) is land, and 20 sqkm of it (11.56%) is water.
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The closest location on the mainland United States to Honolulu is the Point Arena Lighthouse in California, at 2045 nautical miles .
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Currently the tallest building is the 438 feet tall First Hawaiian Center, located on King and Bishop Streets.
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Temperatures reach or exceed 90 °F on an average 38 days annually, with lows in the upper 50s °F (14–15 °C) occurring once or twice a year.
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The highest recorded temperature was 95 °F on September 19, 1994 and August 31, 2019.
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The lowest recorded temperature was 52 °F on February 16, 1902, and January 20, 1969.
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There have been as many as 116 days (in 1995) that reached 90 °F , and as recently as, 2012, no days.
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The annual average rainfall is 17 inches , which mainly occurs during the winter months of October through early April, with very little rainfall during the summer.
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Founded by Jim Cotton in 1970, the course is 2 miles and spans from the New Otani Hotel to the Hilton Rainbow Tower.
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The City and County of Honolulu is currently constructing the 20 miles rail transit line that will connect Honolulu with cities and suburban areas near Pearl Harbor and in the Leeward and West Oahu regions.
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Robert Sewell notes that a big dam across was built the Tungabhadra and an aqueduct 15 miles long was cut out of rock ( ).
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The wall was moved in to 409 feet , which the team hoped would generate more home runs.
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195, 1692, pp 563–578 put forth the idea of Earth consisting of a hollow shell about 800 kilometers thick, two inner concentric shells and an innermost core.
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De Camp and Ley have claimed (in their Lands Beyond) that Leonhard Euler also proposed a hollow-Earth idea, getting rid of multiple shells and postulating an interior sun 1000 kilometers across to provide light to advanced inner-Earth civilizations but they provide no references; indeed, Euler did not propose a hollow-...
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Gates added that Hezbollah is possibly armed with chemical or biological weapons, as well as 65 miles anti-ship missiles that could threaten U.S. ships.
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In 2010, Hezbollah claimed that the Dalit and Tamar gas field, discovered by Noble Energy roughly 50 miles west of Haifa in Israeli exclusive economic zone, belong to Lebanon, and warned Israel against extracting gas from them.
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At 7:35 a.m. on September 11, 2001, Hanjour arrived at the passenger security checkpoint at Washington Dulles International Airport, 26 miles west of Washington, D.C., en route to board American Airlines Flight 77.
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Hanjour advanced the throttles to maximum power and dove towards the Pentagon at a speed of over 530 mph .
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Dartmouth College was established in 1769 beside the Common at a village called "the Plain"—an extensive and level tract of land a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the Connecticut River, and about 150 feet above it.
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The highest point in Hanover is the north peak of Moose Mountain, at 2313 feet above sea level.
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Extremes range from -40.0 °F , recorded on February 16, 1943, to 103 °F (39 °C), recorded on August 2, 1975.
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Site investigations found an area of marshy ground some 15 feet deep on the tidal river-bank, about 150 metres west of the boat-house.
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It grew steadily; by the early 3rd century, it covered an area of about 125 acres , behind a deep ditch and wall.
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They eventually found him on the left bank of the Aufidus River, and encamped 6 miles away.
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The A7 Edinburgh to Carlisle road passes through the town, with main roads also leading to Berwick-upon-Tweed (the A698) and Newcastle upon Tyne (the A6088, which joins the A68 at the Carter Bar, 16 miles south-east of Hawick).
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Regular buses serve the railway station at Carlisle, 42 miles away.
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Hatfield lies 20 miles north of London beside the A1(M) motorway and has direct trains to London King's Cross railway station, Finsbury Park and Moorgate.
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In the Saxon period Hatfield was known as Hetfelle, but by the year 970, when King Edgar gave 5000 acres to the monastery of Ely, it had become known as Haethfeld.
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The Government allocated 2340 acres for Hatfield New Town, with a population target of 25,000.
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Hatfield is 20 miles to the north of London.
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It is 14 miles from London Luton Airport.
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In 2013, the county had a population of 1,140,700 in an area of 634 sqmi .
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These reach over 800 feet in the western projection around Tring which is in the Chilterns.
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The highest point in the county is at 245 meters (AOD) on the Ridgeway long distance national path, on the border of Hastoe near Tring with Drayton Beauchamp, Buckinghamshire.
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Knebworth House, 250 acres of country park, venue of many rock and pop festivals
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Stansted Airport and Luton Airport are both within 10 miles of the county's borders.
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caption = One mechanical horsepower lifts 550 pounds by 1 foot in 1 second.
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The wheel was 12 feet in radius; therefore, the horse travelled 2.4 × 2π × 12 feet in one minute.
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and 0.35 horsepower for a period of several hours.
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The Kokino site, discovered in 2001, sits atop an extinct volcanic cone at an elevation of 1013 meters , occupying about 0.5 hectares overlooking the surrounding countryside in North Macedonia.
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In contrast, exchange reactions between hydrogen and deuterium on the Haber–Bosch catalysts still take place at temperatures of -196.0 Coulomb at a measurable rate; the exchange between deuterium and hydrogen on the ammonia molecule also takes place at room temperature.
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A year later, after American and British troops had removed the Taliban and installed the interim government, the land under cultivation leapt back to 285 sqmi , with Afghanistan supplanting Burma to become the world's largest opium producer once more.
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Because she was taller, Bogart had 3 inches blocks attached to his shoes in some scenes.
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Bogart bought the Santana, a 55 feet sailing yacht, from actor Dick Powell in 1945.
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Bogart lapsed into a coma and died the following day, 20 days after his 57th birthday; at the time of his death he weighed only 80 pounds .
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