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Beginning in 2009, NASA's robotic Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, while orbiting 50 kilometers above the Moon, photographed the remnants of the Apollo program left on the lunar surface, and each site where crewed Apollo flights landed.

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The Alabama River, in the U.S. state of Alabama, is formed by the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers, which unite about 6 miles north of Montgomery, near the suburb of Wetumpka.

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The river flows west to Selma, then southwest until, about 45 miles from Mobile, it unites with the Tombigbee, forming the Mobile and Tensaw rivers, which discharge into Mobile Bay.

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Its length as measured by the United States Geological Survey is 318 miles , U.S. Geological Survey.

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http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map] , accessed April 27, 2011 and by steamboat measurement, 420 miles .

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Claiborne Lock and Dam on the Alabama River, approximately 5 miles upriver from Claiborne, Monroe County

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Robert F. Henry Lock and Dam on the Alabama River, approximately 15 miles east of Selma

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Millers Ferry Lock and Dam on the Alabama River in Wilcox County, approximately 9 miles northwest of Camden

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1915 A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 mph .

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It features a 7 feet tall fossil tree trunk from Portland mounted on a block of Purbeck limestone.

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Aachen is the westernmost city in Germany, located near the borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, 61 kilometers west of Cologne .

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Aachen lies near the head of the open valley of the Wurm (which today flows through the city in canalised form), part of the larger basin of the Meuse, and about 30 kilometers north of the High Fens, which form the northern edge of the Eifel uplands of the Rhenish Massif.

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After electrification in 1895, it was with maximal 213 kilometers in 1915 the fourth-longest tram system in Germany.

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Today, the ASEAG (Aachener Straßenbahn und Energieversorgungs-AG, literally "Aachen tram and power supply company") operates a 1240 kilometers long bus network with 68 bus routes.

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caption = 19.6 kg (43.2 lb) Specimen of "Crazy Lace" agate from Chihuahua, Mexico; the specimen is 38 cms wide

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A 15 pounds barrel full of tumble-polished agate and jasper

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For those weighing less than 70 kilograms , low dose is effective for preventing cardiovascular disease; for patients above this weight, higher doses are required.

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Its acid dissociation constant (pK a ) is 3.5 at 25 Coulomb .

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A 100 grams reference amount of uncooked amaranth grain provides 371 calories, and is a rich source (20% or more of the Daily Value, DV) of protein, dietary fiber, pantothenic acid, vitamin B6, folate, and several dietary minerals (table).

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He innovated by installing a giant engine, known as the Superior, which was able to lift 24 tons of rock from a depth of 1200 meters .

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Attempts were undertaken to prevent the former from herding their flocks in agricultural lands, such as the building of a 180 kilometers wall known as the "Repeller of the Amorites" between the Tigris and Euphrates under the Ur III ruler Shu-Sin.

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Southern Iraq during Akkadian period seems to have been approaching its modern rainfall level of less than 20 mm per year, with the result that agriculture was totally dependent upon irrigation.

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Pausanias also relates that a gigantic skeleton, its kneecap 5 inches in diameter, appeared on the beach near Sigeion, on the Trojan coast; these bones were identified as those of Ajax.

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The multi-story structure covers 750 meters square and had perhaps 30 rooms.

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As a result, Alexander relocated his family to the Gatchina Palace, located 20 miles south of St. Petersburg, making it his primary residence.

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The next year, he acquired the Hermitage, a 640 acres plantation in Davidson County, near Nashville.

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Slaves lived in extended family units of between five and ten persons and were quartered in 400 sqft cabins made either of brick or logs.

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He introduced for the first time his Homestead Bill, to grant 160 acres to people willing to settle the land and gain title to it.

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The coldest temperature to occur in recent years was -16.8 Coulomb during December 2010,

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while the following winter, Dyce set a new February high temperature station record on 28 February 2012 of 17 Coulomb .,

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and a new March high temperature record of 21 Coulomb on 25 March 2012.

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Exploration commenced in the 1960s and the first major find in the British sector was in November 1970 in the Forties field, 110 miles east of Aberdeen.

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It covers 2 acres in the centre of Aberdeen bordered on three sides by Union Street, Union Terrace and Rosemount Viaduct.

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Situated next to each other, Victoria Park and Westburn Park cover 26 acres between them.

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The 30 miles route was earmarked to be completed in 2018 and was hoped to significantly reduce traffic congestion in and around the city.

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Aberdeen is connected to the UK National Cycle Network, and has a track to the south connecting to cities such as Dundee and Edinburgh and one to the north that forks about 10 miles from the city into two different tracks heading to Inverness and Fraserburgh respectively.

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It includes an 8 meters model of the Murchison oil production platform and a 19th-century assembly taken from Rattray Head lighthouse

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1975 The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles northwest of Detroit, Michigan

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alt=Photo of dripping, cup-shaped net, approximately 6 feet in diameter and equally tall, half full of fish, suspended from crane boom, with four workers on and around larger, ring-shaped structure in water

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Evidence indicates they developed about 100 sqkm of volcanic floodplains in the vicinity of Lake Condah into a complex of channels and dams, and used woven traps to capture eels, and preserve them to eat all year round. [

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In China, sea cucumbers are farmed in artificial ponds as large as 1000 acres .

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Over four decades, 269000 hectares of Indonesian mangroves have been converted to shrimp farms.

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At the end of the year the Danes drew their ships up the River Thames and the River Lea and fortified themselves 20 miles north of London.

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There were thirty-three burhs, spaced approximately 30 kilometers apart, enabling the military to confront attacks anywhere in the kingdom within a day.

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For example, Wallingford had a hidage of 2,400, which meant that the landowners there were responsible for supplying and feeding 2,400 men, the number sufficient for maintaining 9900 feet of wall.

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The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore; the old part, the ancient city of the deys, climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the casbah or citadel, 122 meters above the sea.

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El Harrach, a suburb of Algiers, is located about 10 kilometers to the east of the city.

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Algiers on average receives roughly 600 mm of rain per year, the bulk of which is seen between October and April.

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Snow is very rare; in 2012, the city received 100 mm , its first snowfall in eight years.

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The minaret is 27 meters high.

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The northern harbour covers an area of 95 hectares .

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The forts and part of the ramparts were demolished at the beginning of the 20th century, when a line of forts occupying the heights of Bouzareah بوزريعة (at an elevation of 396 meters above the sea) took their place.

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Notre Dame d'Afrique, a church built (1858–1872) in a mixture of the Roman and Byzantine styles, is conspicuously situated overlooking the sea, on the shoulder of the Bouzareah hills, 3 kilometers

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The Jardin d'essai (Garden of Test; El-Hamma): situated in the east of Algiers, it extends over 80 hectares and contains exotic plants and gardens.

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The development of the 44 kilometers sea front will include marinas, channels, luxury hotels, offices, apartments of great standing, luxury stores and leisure amenities.

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Another project relates to technological implantation of a campus in Sidi Abdellah, 25 kilometers south-east from Algiers.

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This 90 hectares site will include shopping centres, residential zones with high standard apartments and a golf course surrounded by villas and hotels.

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The fifth project is that of the tourist complex Colonel Abbès, which will be located 25 kilometers west from Algiers.

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Some 20 kilometers to the west of Algiers are such seaside resorts as Sidi Fredj (ex-Sidi Ferruch), Palm Beach, Douaouda, Zéralda, and the Club of the Pines (residence of State); there are tourist complexes, Algerian and other restaurants, souvenir shops, supervised beaches, and other amenities.

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Houari Boumediene Airport is located 20 kilometers from the city.

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It is 1 meters tall and weighs 14 tons.

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It melts at about 62 °C (143.6 °F) to a fatty, yellow resinous liquid; and at 100 Coulomb it is volatilised into a white vapour.

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length = 6575 kilometers

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The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world, with an area of approximately 7050000 sqkm .

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After 170 kilometers , the Coca River joined the Napo River (at a point now known as Puerto Francisco de Orellana); the party stopped for a few weeks to build a boat just upriver from this confluence.

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After a journey of 600 km down the Napo River they reached a further major confluence, at a point near modern Iquitos, and then followed the upper Amazon, now known as the Solimões, for a further 1200 kilometers to its confluence with the Rio Negro (near modern Manaus), which they reached on 3 June 1542.

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From 1648 to 1652, Portuguese Brazilian bandeirante António Raposo Tavares led an expedition from São Paulo overland to the mouth of the Amazon, investigating many of its tributaries, including the Rio Negro, and covering a distance of more than 10000 kilometers .

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Four centuries after the European discovery of the Amazon river, the total cultivated area in its basin was probably less than 65 sqkm , excluding the limited and crudely cultivated areas among the mountains at its extreme headwaters.

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After about 700 kilometers , the Apurímac then joins Río Mantaro to form the Ene, which joins the Perene to form the Tambo, which joins the Urubamba River to form the Ucayali.

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From this point to the confluence of the Ucayali and the Marañón, some 1600 kilometers , the forested banks are just above the water and are inundated long before the river attains its maximum flood stage.

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At some points the river divides into anabranches, or multiple channels, often very long, with inland and lateral channels, all connected by a complicated system of natural canals, cutting the low, flat igapó lands, which are never more than 5 meters above low river, into many islands.

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The Lower Amazon begins where the darkly coloured waters of the Rio Negro meet the sandy coloured Rio Solimões (the upper Amazon), and for over 6 kilometers these waters run side by side without mixing.

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At Óbidos, a bluff 17 meters above the river is backed by low hills.

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In the lower reaches of the river, the north bank consists of a series of steep, table-topped hills extending for about 240 kilometers from opposite the mouth of the Xingu as far as Monte Alegre.

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If the Pará river and the Marajó island ocean frontage are included, the Amazon estuary is some 325 kilometers wide.

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A more conservative measurement excluding the Pará river estuary, from the mouth of the Araguari River to Ponta do Navio on the northern coast of Marajó, would still give the mouth of the Amazon a width of over 180 kilometers .

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If only the river's main channel is considered, between the islands of Curuá (state of Amapá) and Jurupari (state of Pará), the width falls to about 15 kilometers .

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It is often said to be "at least" 6400 kilometers long.

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Often it is said to be "about" 6650 kilometers long.

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They calculated the Amazon's length as 6992 kilometers .

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Using the same techniques, they calculated the length of the Nile as 6853 kilometers , which is longer than previous estimates but still shorter than the Amazon.

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The Amazon basin, the largest in the world, covers about 40% of South America, an area of approximately 7050000 sqkm .

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Every year, the river rises more than 9 meters , flooding the surrounding forests, known as várzea ("flooded forests").

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The fresh water, being lighter, flows on top of the seawater, diluting the salinity and altering the colour of the ocean surface over an area up to 2500000 sqkm in extent.

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At Manacapuru, the Amazon's water level is only about 24 meters above mean sea level.

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The main river is navigable for large ocean steamers to Manaus, 1500 kilometers upriver from the mouth.

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Smaller riverboats can reach 780 kilometers higher, as far as Achual Point.

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More than one-third of all known species in the world live in the Amazon rainforest, a giant tropical forest and river basin with an area that stretches more than 5400000 sqkm .

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It is the largest species of river dolphin, and it can grow to lengths of up to 2 meters .

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The arapaima, known in Brazil as the pirarucu, is a South American tropical freshwater fish, one of the largest freshwater fish in the world, with a length of up to 15 feet . [

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Another Amazonian freshwater fish is the arowana (or aruanã in Portuguese), such as the silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum), which is a predator and very similar to the arapaima, but only reaches a length of 120 cms .

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The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) has been reported 4000 kilometers up the Amazon River at Iquitos in Peru.

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The Amazon has over 1,100 tributaries, 12 of which are over 1500 kilometers long.

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2820 kilometers – Japurá or Caquetá, Colombia/Brazil

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2627 kilometers – Araguaia, Brazil (tributary of Tocantins)

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1749 kilometers – Guaporé, Brazil/Bolivia (tributary of Madeira)

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1370 kilometers – Teles Pires, Brazil (tributary of Tapajós)

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1300 kilometers – Iriri, Brazil (tributary of Xingu)

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1240 kilometers – Juruena, Brazil (tributary of Tapajós)

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1130 kilometers – Madre de Dios, Peru/Bolivia (tributary of Madeira)