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The lunar sounder beamed electromagnetic impulses toward the lunar surface, which were designed with the objective of obtaining data to assist in developing a geological model of the interior of the Moon to an approximate depth of 1 kilometers .

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The laser altimeter was designed with the intention of measuring the altitude of the spacecraft above the lunar surface within approximately 2 meters , and providing altitude information to the panoramic and mapping cameras.

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The results of this experiment, which are consistent with lunar rock composition, show that the top 2 kilometers of the Moon are extremely dry.

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In 1769, the women of Boston produced 40,000 skeins of yarn, and 180 women in Middletown, Massachusetts wove 20522 yards of cloth.

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1901 Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 feet , a record that would stand for 20 years.

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1914 World War I: The German minelayer SS Königin Luise 1913 6 lays a minefield about 40 miles off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft).

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2010 The Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2300 feet below the ground for 69 days.

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The original site was narrowed to 640 acres that fronted the Colorado River between two creeks, Shoal Creek and Waller Creek, which was later named in his honor.

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In 2010, the city occupied a total area of 790 sqkm .

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Approximately 18 sqkm of this area is water.

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The 165 feet moonlight towers were built in the late 19th century and are now recognized as historic landmarks.

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Sixteen of those were set to rise above 400 feet tall, including four above 600', and eight above 500'.

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Austin averages 34 inches of annual rainfall and it is distributed mostly evenly throughout the year, though spring and fall are the wettest seasons.

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The highest ever recorded temperature was 112 °F occurring on September 5, 2000, and August 28, 2011.

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January is the coolest month with an average daytime high of 61 °F .

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The overnight low drops to or below freezing 19 times per year, and sinks below 45 °F during 88 evenings per year, including most nights between mid-December and mid-February.

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The lowest ever recorded temperature in the city was -2.0 °F on January 31, 1949.

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When Austin received 0.04 inches of ice on January 24, 2014, there were 278 vehicular collisions.

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A snow event of 0.9 inches on February 4, 2011, caused more than 300 car crashes Plohetski, Tony. "[

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The population density was 2610 population density per sqmi .

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There were formatnum:276842 housing units at an average density of 1100 per sqmi .

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The longest-running concert music program on American television, Austin City Limits, is recorded at ACL Live at The Moody Theater, located in the bottom floor of the 478 feet W Hotel.

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Austin is home to the Circuit of the Americas (COTA), a grade 1 FIA specification 3 miles motor racing facility which hosts the Formula One United States Grand Prix.

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To strengthen the region's parks system, which spans more than 29000 acres , The Austin Parks Foundation (APF) was established in 1992 to develop and improve parks in and around Austin.

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Austin's warm climate and the river's calm waters, nearly 6 miles length and straight courses are especially popular with crew teams and clubs.

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The 10 miles Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail forms a complete circuit around the lake.

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The Barton Creek Greenbelt is a 7 miles public green belt managed by the City of Austin's Park and Recreation Department.

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State Highway 130 is a bypass route designed to relieve traffic congestion, starting from Interstate 35 just north of Georgetown and running along a parallel route to the east, where it bypasses Round Rock, Austin, San Marcos and New Braunfels before ending at Interstate 10 east of Seguin, where drivers could drive 30 miles west to return to Interstate 35 in San Antonio.

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The highway is noted for having the entire route with a speed limit of at least 80 mph .

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The 41-mile section of the toll road between Mustang Ridge and Seguin has a posted speed limit of 85 mph , the highest posted speed limit in the United States.

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Austin's airport is Austin–Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) (IATA code AUS), located 5 miles southeast of the city.

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Some heavily utilized routes feature bus rapid transit, with 60 feet long, train-like, high-tech buses.

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Capital Metro opened a 32 miles commuter rail system known as Capital MetroRail on March 22, 2010.

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With personal space of 11 sqft to sleep and place whatever belongings they had, inmates were deprived, Robert-Jan van Pelt wrote, "of the minimum space needed to exist".

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After examining several sites for a new plant to manufacture Buna-N, a type of synthetic rubber essential to the war effort, the German chemical cartel IG Farben chose a site near the towns of Dwory and Monowice (Monowitz in German), about 7 kilometers east of Auschwitz I. Tax exemptions were available to corporations prepared to develop industries in the frontier regions under the Eastern Fiscal Assistance Law, passed in December 1940.

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Split into four sections, each section measured less than 1.0 meters square and held four prisoners, who entered it through a hatch near the floor.

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In this event, archers shoot vertically from the base of an abbey tower to dislodge a wood pigeon placed approximately 30 meters above.)

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The current flows at a rate of about 4 kmph over the Macquarie Ridge south of New Zealand.

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Anne's father was appointed to the perpetual curacy in Haworth, a small town 7 miles away.

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The funeral was held on Wednesday 30 May which did not allow time for Patrick Brontë to make the 70 miles journey, had he wished to do so.

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At the age of 11, Augustine was sent to school at Madaurus (now M'Daourouch), a small Numidian city about 19 miles south of Thagaste.

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The original was a 27 inches high bronze piece created between 1879 and 1889, designed for the Gates ' lintel, from which the figure would gaze down upon Hell.

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Marwil, p. 1 Allen and Rumsey decided to name it for their wives, both named Ann, and for the stands of bur oak in the 640 acres of land they purchased for $800 from the federal government at $1.25 per acre.

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Marwil, p. 7 The Ann Arbor Land Company, a group of speculators, set aside 40 acres of undeveloped land and offered it to the state of Michigan as the site of the state capital, but lost the bid to Lansing.

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Ann Arbor is 11 miles road miles west of Ypsilanti.

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Ann Arbor is also 42 miles road miles west of Detroit.

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Ann Arbor Municipal Airport, which is south of the city at Coord, has an elevation of 839 feet .

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The Nichols Arboretum, owned by the University of Michigan, is a 123 acres arboretum that contains hundreds of plant and tree species.

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There are four distinct seasons: winters are cold and snowy, with average highs around 34 Farad .

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Summers are warm to hot and humid, with average highs around 81 Farad and with slightly more precipitation.

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Snowfall, which normally occurs from November to April but occasionally starts in October, averages 58 inches per season.

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Domino's Pizza's headquarters is near Ann Arbor on Domino's Farms, a 271 acres Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired complex just northeast of the city.

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Detroit Metropolitan Airport, the area's large international airport, is about 25 miles east of the city, in Romulus.

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In order to accommodate the new temple, the south part of the summit was cleared, made level by adding some 8,000 two-ton blocks of limestone, a foundation 11 meters deep at some points, and the rest was filled with soil kept in place by the retaining wall.

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The Falcons' current home field is Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which opened for the 2017 season; the team's headquarters and practice facilities are located at a 50 acres site in Flowery Branch, northeast of Atlanta in Hall County.

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Thereafter, the gold-plated acacia chest was carried by its staves while en route by the Levites approximately 2,000 cubits (approximately 800 meters ) in advance of the people when on the march or before the Israelite army, the host of fighting men.

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Later the Ark was kept at Shiloh, another religious centre some 16 kilometers north of Bethel, at the time of the prophet Samuel's apprenticeship, where it was cared for by Hophni and Phinehas, two sons of Eli.

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Many residents of Chicago and Milwaukee were hoping for a Sox-Braves Series, as the cities are only about 75 miles apart, but it was not to be because Milwaukee fell in a best-of-3 playoff with two straight losses to the Dodgers.

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The plane crashed and caught fire shortly after takeoff, about 200 feet from the end of the runway.

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As the subsequent investigation determined, the aircraft was overloaded by 700 pounds when it attempted to take off, and was carrying one more passenger than it was certified for.

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Each plate is rated to stop a range of ammunition including 3 hits from a 7.62×51 NATO AP round at a range of 10 meters .

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The vehicle had Vickers armour 6 mm thick and was powered by a four-cylinder 3.3-litre 16 hp Cannstatt Daimler engine giving it a maximum speed of around 9 mph .

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Indian T-90 Bhisma with appliqué reactive armor and standard 125 mm main gun

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Wiesel 1A1 MK with 20 mm autocannon

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AVLBs can carry bridges of 60 feet or greater in length.

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The average length of an armadillo is about 75 cms , including tail.

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The leprosy bacterium is difficult to culture and armadillos have a body temperature of 34 Coulomb , similar to human skin.)

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The +15 is the world's most extensive skywalk, at 16 kilometers in total length.

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Minneapolis has the longest single path, at 8 miles .

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The Las Vegas Strip has many arcology features to protect people from the 45 Coulomb heat.

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It is possible to travel from Mandalay Bay at the south end of the Strip to the Las Vegas Convention Center, 3 miles to the north, without using streets.

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The total network spans 28 kilometers , and offers access to TTC Subway Stations, shopping malls, hotels, and even offices.

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These are complex systems of tunnels covering as much as 1000 meters square and are often in eskers, long ridges of sedimentary material deposited in formerly glaciated regions.

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Using the lowest BMR value measured in Arctic foxes, an average sized fox ( 3 kilograms ) would need 471 kJ/day during the winter to survive.

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The Arctic fox lives in some of the most frigid extremes on the planet, but they do not start to shiver until the temperature drops to -70.0 °C .

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The tail is about 30 cms long in both sexes.

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They are found at elevations up to 3000 meters above sea level and have been seen on sea ice close to the North Pole.

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The young fox crossed the polar ice from Norway to Greenland in 21 days, a distance of 1512 kilometers .

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She then moved on to Ellesmere Island in northern Canada, covering a total recorded distance of 3506 kilometers in 76 days, before her GPS tracker stopped working.

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It was first used by The New York Times in 1938, subscription required in an article about the Royal Navy's HMS Ark Royal 91 6 , that had a length of 209 meters , a displacement of 22,000 tonnes and was designed to carry 72 aircraft.

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Further versatility was demonstrated during the "Doolittle Raid", on 18 April 1942, when US Navy carrier USS Hornet CV-8 6 sailed to within 650 nautical miles of Japan and launched 16 B-25 bombers from her deck in a retaliatory strike on the mainland, including the capital, Tokyo.

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Carriers steam at speed, up to 35 knots into the wind during flight deck operations to increase wind speed over the deck to a safe minimum.

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India started the construction of , a 40,000-tonne, 260 meters aircraft carrier in 2009.

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The ship will be powered by four gas-turbine engines and will have a range of 8000 nautical miles , carrying 160 officers, 1,400 sailors, and 40 aircraft.

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2 Izumos – 820 feet , 19,500-tonne (27,000 tonnes full load) helicopter carrier Izumo was launched August 2013 and commissioned March 2015.

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Nimitz: ten 101,000-tonne, 1092 feet fleet carriers, the first of which was commissioned in 1975.

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A Nimitz-class carrier is powered by two nuclear reactors providing steam to four steam turbines and is 1092 feet long,

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When open, it ran for about 2517 feet between Columbia Street and Boerum Place.

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A tunnel stretching 596 feet was completed through Prospect Hill, one of the highest points on the East Side of Manhattan, between 92nd and 95th Streets, in 1837.

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Once roofed over the interior height of the newly created tunnel was 17 feet .

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Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1980 by then 20-year-old Robert Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of 70 feet underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.

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The valley measures approximately 126 kilometers in length from Digby and the Annapolis Basin in the west to Wolfville and the Minas Basin in the east, spanning the counties of Digby, Annapolis and Kings.

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The steep face of basaltic North Mountain shelters the valley from the adjacent Bay of Fundy and rises over 260 meters in elevation near Lawrencetown.

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The vehicle had Vickers armour 6 mm thick and was powered by a four-cylinder 3.3-litre 16-hp Cannstatt Daimler engine, giving it a maximum speed around 9 mph .

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1932 A 5 kilograms chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.

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2003 European heat wave: The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom, 38 °C in Kent, England.

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Area 51 is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States, 83 miles north-northwest of Las Vegas.

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The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is 44 miles southwest of Groom Lake.

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The lake at 4409 feet

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Located within the namesake Groom Lake Valley portion of the Tonopah Basin, the lake is 25 miles south of Rachel, Nevada.