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The length of the bridge's main span is 3800 feet , which makes it the third-longest suspension span in the United States and 20th longest suspension span worldwide.
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Traffic backups could stretch as long as 16 miles .
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At the invitation of the state legislature, C. E. Fowler of New York City put forth a plan for a long series of causeways and bridges across the straits from Cheboygan, 17 miles southeast of Mackinaw City, to St. Ignace, using Bois Blanc, Round, and Mackinac islands as intermediate steps.
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A concrete causeway, approximately 4000 feet , extending from the northern shore, was constructed in shallow water from 1939 to 1941.
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The road deck is shaped as an airfoil to provide lift in a cross wind, and the center two lanes are open grid to allow vertical (upward) air flow, which fairly precisely cancels the lift, making the roadway stable in design in winds of up to 150 mph .
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Length from cable bent pier to cable bent pier: 7400 feet .
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Total width of the roadway: 54 feet
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Catwalk, curb and rail width: 3 feet on each side
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Width of stiffening truss in the suspended span: 68 feet .
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Depth of stiffening truss: 38 feet
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Height of the roadway at mid-span: approximately 200 feet above water level.
200
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0
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155 feet at the center of the main suspension span.
155
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Height of towers above water: 552 feet
552
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depth of towers below water: 210 feet
210
12,951
12951
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3
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Depth of water beneath the center of the bridge, 250 feet
250
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12952
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5
0
Diameter of each wire: 0.196 inches
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12,953
12953
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2
0
Diameter of each cable: 24 inches
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12954
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5
0
Total length of wire in main cables: 42000 miles .
42,000
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Heavy trucks are also required to leave a 500 feet spacing ahead.
500
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12957
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3
0
Diver Frank Pepper ascended too quickly from a depth of 140 feet on September 16, 1954.
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0
He fell 40 feet and likely died of head injuries caused by impact with the criss-crossing steel beams inside the caisson.
40
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0
He survived the fall but fell victim to the 50 °F water temperature.
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His body was recovered the next day in 95 feet of water.
95
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0
On September 22, 1989, Leslie Ann Pluhar died when her 1987 Yugo plunged over the 36 inches railing.
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0
Winters are long and cold with a January average of 18 °F .
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0
On average, there are 11.6 days annually where the minimum temperature reaches 0.0 °F and 73 days with a maximum at or below freezing, including a majority of days during meteorological winter (December thru February).
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Because Lake Superior rarely freezes over completely, this enables lake effect snow to persist throughout winter, making Marquette the third snowiest location in the contiguous United States as reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with an average annual snowfall of 149 inches .
149
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0
The snow depth in winter usually exceeds 10 inches .
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0
The warmest months, July and August, each average 66 °F , showing somewhat of a seasonal lag.
66
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2
0
The surrounding lake cools summertime temperatures and as a result, temperatures above 90 °F are rare, with only 3.4 days per year.
90
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Marquette receives 29 inches of precipitation per year, which is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year, though September and October are the wettest months with January and February being the driest.
29
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The population density was 1874 population density per sqmi .
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There were 8,756 housing units at an average density of 768 per sqmi .
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There were 8,429 housing units at an average density of 739 per sqmi .
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It includes 323 acres of mostly forested land and juts out into Lake Superior.
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The combination of hilly terrain (a 600 feet vertical difference from top to bottom) and large area snow falls makes snowboarding and downhill skiing a reality on the edge of town.
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2
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The airport is located 20 miles south of downtown Marquette.
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A climber taking the final few steps onto the 6160 meters summit of Imja Tse (Island Peak) in Nepal, 2004
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The famous poet Petrarch describes his 26 April 1336 ascent of Mount Ventoux ( 1912 meters ) in one of his epistolae familiares, claiming to be inspired by Philip V of Macedon's ascent of Mount Haemo.
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A commonly cited example is the 1492 ascent of Mont Aiguille ( 2085 meters ) by Antoine de Ville, a French military officer and lord of Domjulien and Beaupré.
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In 1897 Mount Saint Elias ( 18008 feet ) on the Alaska-Yukon border was summitted by the Duke of the Abruzzi and party.
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In 1879-1880 the exploration of the highest Andes in South America began when English mountaineer Edward Whymper climbed Chimborazo ( 20564 feet ) and explored the mountains of Ecuador.
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5
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In 1892 Sir William Martin Conway explored the Karakoram Himalayas, and climbed a peak of 23000 feet .
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In 1899, 1903, 1906, and 1908 American mountaineer Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman (one of the first professional female mountaineers) made ascents in the Himalayas, including one of the Nun Kun peaks ( 23300 feet ).
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They reached 22000 feet before turning back due to weather and other mishaps.
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the highest of these peaks Mount Everest was climbed in 1953 after the British had made several attempts in the 1920s; the 1922 expedition reached 8320 meters before being aborted on the third summit attempt after an avalanche killed seven porters.
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Margaret River is a town in the South West of Western Australia, located in the valley of the eponymous Margaret River, 277 kilometers south of Perth, the state capital.
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Margaret River is located 9 kilometers inland from the Indian Ocean at a point about halfway between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia's South West region.
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12990
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The climate is warm-summer Mediterranean (Csb in the Köppen climate classification), with an average annual rainfall of around 1130 mm .
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Most rain falls between May and August, when around two days in three record measurable rainfall and around one in ten over 10 mm .
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Margaret River is the foremost Geographical Indication wine region in the South West Australia Zone, with nearly 55 sqkm under vine and over 138 wineries as at 2008.
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One of which being the multi-chambered Mammoth Cave, which lies 21 kilometers south of the town and contains fossils dating back over 35,000 years.
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Outpost and Support Point line': Approximately 5 kilometers behind the border, a line of anti-tank blockhouses that were intended to provide resistance to armoured assault, sufficient to delay the enemy so as to allow the crews of the C.O.R.F. ouvrages'' to be ready at their battle stations.
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Principal line of resistance''': This line began 10 kilometers behind the border.
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Narrow Gauge Railway System': A network of narrow gauge railways was built so as to rearm and resupply the main fortresses (ouvrages'') from supply depots up to 50 kilometers away.
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These crenels may be equipped as follows: light machine-gun, direct vision block, binoculars block or a 50 mm mortar.
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There are 72 AM cloches (armes mixtes or "mixed weapons") on the line, equipped with a pair of machine guns and a 25 mm anti-tank gun.
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21 turrets of 75 mm model 1933
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12 turrets of 75 mm model 1932
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13003
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1 turret of 75 mm model 1905
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17 turrets of 135 mm
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21 turrets of 81 mm
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7 turrets for mixed weapons + mortar of 50 mm
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The largest guns were therefore 135 mm fortress guns; larger weapons were to be part of the mobile forces and were to be deployed behind the lines.
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Another example is the Principality of Outer Baldonia, a 16 acres rocky island off the coast of Nova Scotia, founded by Russell Arundel, chairman of the Pepsi Cola Company (later: PepsiCo), in 1945 and comprising a population of 69 fishermen.
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The 550 meters square Principality of Sealand
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These were used extensively in the copper mines at Rio Tinto in Spain, where one sequence comprised 16 such wheels arranged in pairs, and lifting water about 24 meters .
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Medieval knights, for example, were often laden with up to 100 pounds of plate or chain link armour in addition to swords, lances and other weapons.
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The Moab Khutsong gold mine in North West Province (South Africa) has the world's longest winding steel wire rope, which is able to lower workers to 3054 meters in one uninterrupted four-minute journey.
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The deepest open-pit mine in the world is Bingham Canyon Mine in Bingham Canyon, Utah, United States, at over 1200 meters .
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The largest and second deepest open-pit copper mine in the world is Chuquicamata in northern Chile at 900 meters , which annually produces 443,000 tons of copper and 20,000 tons of molybdenum.
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The deepest open-pit mine with respect to sea level is Tagebau Hambach in Germany, where the base of the pit is 293 meters below sea level.
293
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The deepest borehole in the world is Kola Superdeep Borehole at 12262 meters , but this is connected to scientific drilling, not mining.
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Tropical monsoon in the lowlands below 1000 meters ; cloudy, rainy, hot, humid summers (southwest monsoon, June to September); less cloudy, scant rainfall, mild temperatures, lower humidity during winter (northeast monsoon, December to April).
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Hkakabo Razi, the country's highest point at 5881 meters , is located at the northern end of the country.
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Myanmar has the 50th largest exclusive economic zone of 532775 sqkm .
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200 nautical miles or to the edge of the continental margin
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The company is a sole operator of oil and gas exploration and production, as well as domestic gas transmission through a 1200 miles onshore pipeline grid.
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Burma's "Valley of Rubies", the mountainous Mogok area, 200 kilometers north of Mandalay, is noted for its rare pigeon's blood rubies and blue sapphires. [
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as of February 2008 , Myanmar had 5099 kilometers of railways, all 1000mm gauge.
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In Hungary, Schumacher finished outside the points in eleventh, but was found guilty of dangerous driving at 180 mph while unsuccessfully defending tenth position against Rubens Barrichello.
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Schumacher closed the inside line to force Barrichello onto the outside, but Barrichello persisted on the inside at 180 mph , despite the close proximity of a concrete wall and Schumacher leaving him only inches to spare.
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The family moved to a newly-built mansion near Gland, Switzerland in 2007, covering an area of 650 meters square with a private beach on Lake Geneva and featuring an underground garage and petrol station, with a vintage Shell fuel pump.
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Miles Dewey Davis III was born on May 26, 1926, to an affluent African-American family in Alton, Illinois, 15 miles north of St. Louis.
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They owned a 200 acres estate near Pine Bluff, Arkansas with a profitable pig farm.
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It has a total length of 925 kilometers .
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The final section was opened by the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1986; on opening it was the longest ring road in Europe at 117 miles .
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with a main span of 450 meters .
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Upon completion, it was the longest orbital motorway in the world at 117 miles .
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Since the completion of the M25, the Berlinger Ring has been completed to run at a slightly longer 196 kilometers
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In 2006 the Highways Agency proposed widening 63 miles of the M25 from six to eight lanes, between Junctions 5 and 6, and 16 to 30, as part of a Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) project.
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The signs are indicating an advisory reduced speed of 40 mph due to congestion.
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In November 2014, during overnight roadworks, a 16 feet piece of road surface near Junction 9 at Leatherhead failed to set correctly because of rain.
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It was criticised by road safety experts for its realistic portrayal of a V8 supercar on the M25 at 165 mph , completing a lap in 42 minutes.
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They are spaced every 500 meters .
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On the dayside of Earth, the magnetic field is significantly compressed by the solar wind to a distance of approximately 65000 kilometers .
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On Earth's nightside, the magnetic field extends in the magnetotail, which lengthwise exceeds 6300000 kilometers .
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The magnetosphere of Jupiter is the largest planetary magnetosphere in the Solar System, extending up to 7000000 kilometers on the dayside and almost to the orbit of Saturn on the nightside.
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A causeway stretching over 2 kilometers , connect Manama with Muharraq Island, and another bridge joins Sitra to the main island.
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A four-lane highway atop a 24 kilometers causeway, linking Bahrain with the Saudi Arabian mainland via the island of Umm an-Nasan was completed in December 1986, and financed by Saudi Arabia.
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