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Kaffeklubben Island or
Coffee Club Island is an
uninhabited island lying off the northern tip of Greenland. It contains
the northernmost undisputed point of land on Earth. Kaffeklubben Island was first visited in 1921 by Danish explorer
Lauge Koch and was named after the coffee club in Copenhagen’s Museum of Mineralogy. |
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The concept of the center of population as used by the U.S. Census Bureau is that of a balance point. The center of population is the point at which an imaginary, weightless, rigid, and flat surface representation of the 50 states and the District of Columbia would balance if weights of identical size were placed on it so that each weight represented the location of one person. The
2020 national mean center of population is 37.415725 N, 92.346525 W, the most
western and southern mean center of population point in our nation’s history.
The 2020 center of population is 11.8 miles from the 2010 center and 885.9
miles from the 1790 center. Hartville, Missouri, the nearest incorporated
municipality to the 2020 center of population, is a town of 594 people in
Wright County, Missouri. |
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The
Crimean Bridge,
also called the Kerch Strait Bridge, is a pair of Russian Constructed
parallel bridges, spanning the Strait of Kerch between the Taman Peninsula of
Krasnodar Krai and the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea.
The
road bridge was opened for non-truck cars on May 16, 2018 and for trucks on
October 1. The rail bridge was
inaugurated on December 23, 2019 and the first scheduled passenger train
crossed the bridge on December 25, 2019, while the opening of the bridge for
freight trains is scheduled for July 1, 2020.
With
a length of 11.8 miles, it is the longest bridge Russia has ever built and
the longest in Europe.
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| THE CRIMEAN BRIDGE By Rosavtodor.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85232127 |
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SS
United States
is a retired ocean liner built in 1950-51 for the United States Line at a
cost of $79.4 million.
SS
United States
is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States and the
fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction.
On
her maiden voyage, July 3-7, 1952, United States broke the eastbound transatlantic
speed record (held by the RMS Queen Mary for the previous 14 years) by
more than 10 hours, making the maiden crossing from the Ambrose lightship at
New York Harbor to Bishop rock off Cornwall, UK in 3 days, 10 hours, 40
minutes at an average speed of 35.69 knots (40.96 mph).
On
her return voyage United States also broke the westbound transatlantic
speed record, also held by RMS Queen Mary, by returning the America in
3 days 12 hours and 12 minutes at an average speed of 34.51 knots (39.71 mph).
SS
United States
is currently moored at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia.
Preservation groups have been raising funds to save the ship, but its fate
remains uncertain.
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| SS UNITED STATES, PIER 82, COLUMBUS BOULEVARD, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA By Brian W. Schaller - Own work, FAL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61238420 |
Bullwinkle
is a 1,736-foot tall, pile supported fixed steel oil platform in the Gulf of
Mexico. Of the total height, 1,352 feet are below the waterline. It is
located in Green Canyon Block 65, approximately 160 miles southwest of New
Orleans.
Bullwinkle
is the world’s tallest supported fixed steel structure. The tower is designed to resist
hurricane force winds, 70’ waves, and a lifetime of stress-reversals induced
by small waves.
Bullwinkle used 10 times the amount of
steel as the Eiffel Tower and weighed over 50,000 tons. In order to tow it
out to sea, an 853-foot long barge, the world’s largest at the time, had to be
constructed.
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| Bullwinkle Oil Platform being towed out to sea By Jay Phagan - Bullwinkle Oil Platform, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=102530784 |
Located on Duquesne Brewing Company building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Duquesne Brewery Clock has the largest clock face in the United States. When it was installed in 1933, it was the largest single-face clock in the world. The 60-by-60-foot clock face, with a 35-foot minute hand and a 25-foot hour hand, both of laminated aluminum, is nearly twice the size of London’s Big Ben. Originally located on a Mount Washington hillside, the clock’s face has been used as advertising for a succession of businesses. Most recently, AT&T took over the rights to advertise on the clock and redesigned the face to display the traditional blue and white AT&T logo. |
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| The Duquesne Brewery Clock in 2019, with no advertising |
