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However, an unofficial reading of -24.0 °C was reported on 3 January 1740.
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The temperature was recorded at 105 °F on 13 July.
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There was also a previous spell of 15 consecutive days above 32 °C in 1976 which also caused many heat related deaths.
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The previous record high was 38 °C in August 1911 at the Greenwich station.
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This can be seen below when comparing London Heathrow, 15 miles west of London, with the London Weather Centre.
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Although London and the British Isles have a reputation of frequent rainfall, London's average of 602 mm of precipitation annually actually makes it drier than the global average.
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The region covers an area of 1579 sqkm .
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The M25 is the second-longest ring-road motorway in Europe at 117 miles long.
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London is notorious for its traffic congestion; in 2009, the average speed of a car in the rush hour was recorded at 10 mph .
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Islington's 1.0 miles long Upper Street, extending northwards from Angel, has more bars and restaurants than any other street in the United Kingdom.
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Europe's busiest shopping area is Oxford Street, a shopping street nearly 1.0 miles long, making it the longest shopping street in the UK.
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0
Primrose Hill, immediately to the north of Regent's Park, at 256 feet Mills, A., Dictionary of London Place Names, (2001) is a popular spot from which to view the city skyline.
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0
Some more informal, semi-natural open spaces also exist, including the 320 hectares Hampstead Heath of North London, and Epping Forest, which covers 2,476 hectares (6,118 acres) in the east.
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0
Other key events are the annual mass-participation London Marathon, in which some 35,000 runners attempt a 26 miles course around the city, and the University Boat Race on the River Thames from Putney to Mortlake.
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0
It lurched across the road towards the loch 20 yards away, leaving a trail of broken undergrowth in its wake.
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0
Its crew noted a large object keeping pace with the vessel at a depth of 146 meters .
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It was detected for 800 meters before contact was lost and regained.
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0
On 26 May 2007, 55-year-old laboratory technician Gordon Holmes videotaped what he said was "this jet black thing, about 14 meters long, moving fairly fast in the water."
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0
According to Elder, the wave was produced by a 4 meters "solid black object" just under the surface of the water.
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11109
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At the loch's far north, the image appeared about 30 meters long.
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Tucker had chosen Loch Ness as the test site for a prototype sonar transducer with a maximum range of 800 meters .
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11111
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P. Skitzki of Raytheon suggested that the data indicated a 3 meters protuberance projecting from one of the echoes.
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Another sonar contact was made, this time with two objects estimated to be about 9 meters .
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0
After examining a sonar return indicating a large, moving object at a depth of 180 meters near Urquhart Bay, Lowrance said: "There's something here that we don't understand, and there's something here that's larger than a fish, maybe some species that hasn't been detected before.
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11114
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1
0
Plesiosaurs were probably cold-blooded reptiles needing warm tropical waters; the average temperature of Loch Ness is only about 5 °C .
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3
0
The rebuilt Lincoln Minster, enlarged to the east at each rebuilding, was on a magnificent scale, its crossing tower crowned by a spire reputed to have been the highest in Europe at 525 feet .
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It fills a gap in the Lincoln Cliff escarpment running north and south through central Lincolnshire and with altitudes up to 200 feet ).
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The nearest Met Office weather station is at RAF Waddington, about 4 miles to the south.
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A former weather station holds the record for the lowest daytime maximum temperature recorded in England in the month of December: -9.0 Coulomb on 17 December 1981.
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0
BMW worked on what was essentially an enlarged version of its highly successful BMW 801 design from the Focke-Wulf Fw 190A. This led to the 53.7-litre displacement BMW 802 in 1943, an eighteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, which nearly matched the American Duplex-Cyclone's 54.9-litre figure, but with a weight of some 153...
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A low-pressure chamber containing these prisoners was used to simulate conditions at altitudes of up to 20000 meters .
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0
Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on 7 November 1879, the fifth child of a Ukrainian-Jewish family of wealthy farmers in Yanovka or Yanivka, in the Kherson governorate of the Russian Empire (now Bereslavka, in Ukraine), a small village 15 miles from the nearest post office.
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2
0
The Farnsworth House and its 60 acres wooded site was purchased at auction for US$7.5 million by preservation groups in 2004 and is now owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as a public museum.
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1
0
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret was born on 6 October 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a small city in the French-speaking Neuchâtel canton in north-western Switzerland, in the Jura mountains, 5 kilometers across the border from France.
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0
These units were 45 meters square in size, made with metal frames, and were designed to be mass-produced and then transported to the site, where they would be inserted into frameworks of steel and stone; The government insisted on stone walls to win the support of local building contractors.
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1
0
Along the walls were high concrete grills 1 meters thick which served as sunshades.
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3
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It is an enormous block 250 meters long and eight levels high, served by a ramp which extends from the ground to the top level.
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The largest of the many Open Hand sculptures that Le Corbusier created is a 26 meters version in Chandigarh, India known as Open Hand Monument.
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It has fallen about 6 feet in the last 400 years.
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It consists of 15 relatively large, up to 1.0 meters long, Labeobarbus barbs that formerly were included in Barbus instead.
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The London Passenger Transport Act 1933 removed responsibility for 167 miles of tram route from the London County Council, three county boroughs and a number of other local authorities in the Greater London area.
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0
At its deepest point Lake Erie is 210 feet deep.
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0
Some outflow occurs via the Welland Canal, part of the St. Lawrence Seaway, which diverts water for ship passages from Port Colborne, Ontario on Lake Erie, to St. Catharines on Lake Ontario, an elevation difference of 326 feet .
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Lake Erie (42.2° N, 81.2W) has a mean elevation of 571 feet above sea level.
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The warm summer of 1999 caused lake temperatures to come close to the 85 °F limit necessary to keep the plants cool.
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The drainage basin covers 30140 sqmi .
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The lake's surface area is 9910 sqmi .
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In the summer of 1986, Lake Erie reached its highest level at 5 feet above datum.
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In the winter of 1934, Lake Erie reached its lowest level at 1 feet below datum.
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During this twelve-month period water levels ranged from 1 feet to the Chart Datum.
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Thus, the eastern and central basins of the modern lake are much deeper than the western basin, which averages only 25 feet deep and is rich in nutrients and fish.
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It was deeper than the current Lake Erie, so its shoreline existed about 8 miles inland from the modern one.
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Heavy lake-effect snowfalls can occur when cold air travels 60 miles or longer over a large unfrozen lake.
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A storm around Christmas in 2001 pounded Buffalo with 7 feet of snow.
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In 2010, there were plans for GE to develop five wind turbines to generate 20 megawatts of power by 2012 with plans to generate 1,000 megawatts by 2020; one proposal called for "gearless turbines" with 176 feet long blades helped along with magnets.
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A plan by Samsung to build an offshore wind farm on the north shore of the lake, from Port Maitland to Nanticoke for a distance of 15 miles , but the plan has been met with opposition from residents for a number of reasons.
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In 2010, the Windsor Star reported that the lake experienced "record-breaking temperatures" reaching 81 °F in mid-August and compared the lake to a "bath tub".
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The fish can reach 5 feet in length and "survive out of water for four days" and "has a mouth full of teeth that can shear fish in half" and can "eat ducks and small mammals."
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In 1999, Doppler radar weather sensors detected millions of mayflies heading for Presque Isle in blue and green splotches on the radar in clouds measuring 10 miles long.
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Each is 1 inches long; the three main species of mayflies are Ephemera simulans, Hexagenia rigida and Hexagenia limbata.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, as pollution in the lake declined, counts of walleyes which were caught grew from 112,000 in 1975 to 4.1 million in 1985, with estimates of the numbers of walleyes in the lake at around 33 million in the basin, with many of 8 pounds or more.
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In a freak incident in 2009, warming temperatures and winds of 35 mph and currents pushing eastward dislodged a miles-wide ice floe which broke away from the shore, trapping more than 130 fishermen offshore; one man died while the rest were rescued by helicopters or boats.
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Most wrecks are undiscovered but believed to be well preserved and in good condition and at most only 200 feet below the water surface.
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The side-wheel passenger and cargo steamship Anthony Wayne sank in 1850, and was located in 2006 about 6 miles north of Vermilion, Ohio.
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It had sunk in a collision with Ogdensburg, a steamship sometimes referred to as a "propeller" according to 19th-century parlance, in 1852, 6 miles west of Long Point, Ontario and survivors from Atlantic were saved by Ogdensburg.
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In 2007, the wreck of the steamship named after "Mad" Anthony Wayne was found near Vermilion, Ohio in 50 feet of water; the vessel sank in 1850 after its boilers exploded, and 38 people died.
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In Ontario, Long Point is a peninsula on the northwest shore near Port Rowan that extends 20 miles into Lake Erie which is a stopover for birds migrating as well as turtles; one reporter found a "turtle-crossing" sign along the road; Long Point Provincial Park is located there and has been designated as a UNESCO Biosp...
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In Ontario's Sand Hill Park, east of Port Burwell, there is a 450 feet high dune which is so steep it requires people to "crawl like crabs to the summit", although there are lake views from the top.
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In southern Michigan, Sterling State Park has campgrounds, 1300 acres for hiking, biking, fishing, boating, with a sand beach for sunbathing, swimming, and picnicking.
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The New York Times reporter Donna Marchetti took a bike tour around the Lake Erie perimeter in 1997, traveling 40 miles per day and staying at bed and breakfasts.
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Long distance swimmers have swum across the lake to set records; for example, a 15-year-old amputee swam the 12 miles stretch across the lake in 2001.
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In Port Dover, Ontario, brave swimmers do high-dives at the annual Polar Bear Swim on the beach; in 2011, the water was 32 Farad , although the air was warmer, which did not deter 14-year-old youth Austin Merrell.
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There have been sporadic reports of people in Cleveland being able to see the Canadian shoreline as if it were immediately offshore, even though Canada is 50 miles from Cleveland.
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Ships headed eastward can take the Welland Canal and a series of eight locks descending 326 feet to Lake Ontario which takes about 12 hours, according to one source.
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When its islands are included, the lake's shoreline is 712 miles long.
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As the last lake in the Great Lakes' hydrologic chain, Lake Ontario has the lowest mean surface elevation of the lakes at 243 feet (74 m) above sea level; 326 feet lower than its neighbor upstream.
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One unique feature of the lake is the Z-shaped Bay of Quinte which separates Prince Edward County from the Ontario mainland, save for a 2 miles isthmus near Trenton; this feature also supports many wetlands and aquatic plants, as well as associated fisheries.
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Also impacted by lake-effect snow is the Tug Hill Plateau, an area of elevated land about 20 miles east of Lake Ontario, creating ideal conditions for lake-effect snowfall.
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The city of Syracuse is 40 miles inland, connected to the lake by the New York State Canal System.
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This formation lies 40 feet below the surface of the lake.
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The Chicago lakefront is accessible for about 24 miles between the city's southern and northern limits along the lake.
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At 55 sqmi , Beaver Island is the largest island in Lake Michigan and gives its name to an archipelago in Charlevoix County, Michigan, which also includes Garden Island, Grape Island, Gull Island, Hat Island, High Island, Hog Island, Horseshoe Island, Little Island, Pismire Island, Shoe Island, Squaw Island, Trout Isla...
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Northerly Island is a 91 acres man-made island in Chicago.
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In the summer of 1986, Lakes Michigan and Huron reached their highest level during the period during which records have been kept, at 5 feet above datum.
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In the winter of 1964, Lakes Michigan and Huron reached their lowest level at 1 feet below datum.
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In January 2013, Lake Michigan's monthly mean water levels dipped to an all-time low of 576 feet , reaching their lowest ebb since record keeping began in 1918.
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The lakes were 29 inches below their long-term average and had declined 17 inches since January 2012.
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elevation = 601 feet (2013 average) The link also has daily elevations for the current month.
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Lake Superior has a surface area of 31700 sqmi , which is approximately the size of South Carolina or Austria.
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There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America to a depth of 30 cms .
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Lake Superior's volume (1.204 km³) over 4.267 km² gives a depth of 0.282 m. The shoreline of the lake stretches 2726 miles (including islands).
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Though Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and deeper than Lake Superior, Crater Lake's elevation is higher and consequently its deepest point is 4229 feet above sea level.)
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Annual storms on Lake Superior regularly feature wave heights of over 20 feet .
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Waves well over 30 feet have been recorded.
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The Soo Locks enable ships to bypass the rapids and to overcome the 25 feet height difference between Lakes Superior and Huron.
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The lake's average surface elevation is 600 feet above sea level.
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The normal high-water mark is 1 feet above datum (601.1 ft or 183.2 m).
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In the summer of 1985, Lake Superior reached its highest recorded level at 2 feet above datum.
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The normal low-water mark is 0.33 feet below datum (601.1 ft or 183.2 m).
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In the winter of 1926 Lake Superior reached its lowest recorded level at 1 feet below datum.
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