The Rubicon
Point Light is a small lighthouse on Lake Tahoe in California. It has not
been operational since the 1920s or 1930s.
The
lighthouse at Rubicon Point has the highest elevation of any American lighthouse.
It stands 6,300 feet above sea level at a point where it could be seen from
most places around the lake.
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| RUBICON POINT LIGHT By Vards Uzvards from San Francisco, CA - Lake Tahoe (p8312148), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10408202 |
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The Jamnagar Refinery is a private sector crude oil refinery owned by Reliance Industries in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July 1999 with an installed capacity of 668,000 barrels per day (106,200 m3/d). Its current installed capacity is 1,240,000 barrels per day (197,000 m3/d). It is currently the largest refinery in the world. The entire complex, as of 2013, consists of manufacturing and
allied facilities, utilities, off-sites, port facilities and a township (415
acres) with housing for its 2,500 employees, on over 7,500 acres (11.7 sq mi)
of land. If all the pipes used in the refinery were laid out, one after
another, they would connect the whole of India from north to south. |
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| THE JAMNAGAR REFINERY AT NIGHT |
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Arlington County is a county in the state of Virginia. The county is in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C. In 2020, the county's population was estimated at 238,643, making Arlington County the sixth-largest county in Virginia by population and the largest unincorporated community in the United States. The Turnberry Tower, located in
the Rosslyn neighborhood, is a 26-story high-rise, and is the tallest
condominium building in the Washington D.C. Metro. |
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| TURNBERRY TOWER |
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The Marion Steam Shovel, also known as the Le Roy Steam Shovel, is a historic Model 91 steam shovel manufactured by the Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company of Marion, Ohio. It is located on Gulf Road in the Town of Le Roy, New York. it is believed to be the largest intact steam shovel remaining in the world, and may have been used in the excavation of the Panama Canal. A model 91 steam shovel set what was then a world record in 1912 when it dug 5,554 cubic yards (4,246 m3) of earth from a pit at the site of Gatun Dam. The Model 91 required eight workers to operate. Four worked in the main section. The operator sat in the front booth and used levers to move the hoist and lift and lower the bucket. When it was time to move the shovel, he took care of that as well. A cranes man, who sat on the left-hand side of the boom, controlled the crowd engine, which allowed him to set the depth of the cut and release the bucket's contents when it was full by tugging on a wire rope attached to it. In the rear was an engineer who tended the boiler and a fireman who shoveled the coal. Outside the shovel a crew of four took up and laid the track
along which its flanged wheels moved. They also set up the jackscrews
necessary to stabilize the shovel in front of the rock face it was digging
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| MARION MODEL 91 STEAM SHOVEL |
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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 |
