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A spring-loaded camming device (also SLCD, cam or friend) is a piece of rock climbing or mountaineering protection equipment. It consists of two, three, or four cams mounted on a common axle or two adjacent axles, so that pulling on the axle forces the cams to spread
Neville met Jonathan Palmer, Columbia Records senior director of creative licensing, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and negotiated about the film's soundtrack rights. . During the Q&A sessions at the festival, Neville was interviewed about a possibility of the film's soundtrack, which he agreed to and attributed that the album reflected the film's storytelling rather than a jukebox ...
He caught a 78 foot (24 m) wave in Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal, after being towed into the wave from a jet ski riding a 6’0 Dick Brewer Tow Board. His record beat the prior world record by over a foot, [ 7 ] but the premature announcement (by others, not by McNamara) proved a source of controversy in the surf world. [ 8 ]
The Harbor 20 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by W. D. Schock Corp's Steve Schock as a day sailer and one design club racer. It was first built in 1997. It was first built in 1997.
The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports. [1] It is based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container, a standard-sized metal box that can be easily transferred between different modes of transportation, such as ships, trains, and trucks.
Descanso Gardens, a popular botanical garden and museum 20 minutes from downtown Los Angeles, was closed, according to its website and Facebook page. It is in an evacuation zone for the Eaton fire.
Alfred "Centennial" Johnson (1846–1927) was a Danish-born fisherman from Gloucester, Massachusetts.In 1876, in a 20-foot (6.1 m) sailing dory, he made the first recorded single-handed crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, landing at Abercastle in west Wales as a celebration of the first centennial of the United States. [1]
The GZ-20 was introduced as part of a US$4 million expansion program by Goodyear in 1968 that included the construction of a new GZ-19 Florida-based airship (Mayflower N1A), replacement of the California-based GZ-19 with a GZ-20 (Columbia N3A), adding a third airship to the fleet (GZ-20 America N10A) and constructing a new airship base at Spring, Texas as home to the new blimp.