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  2. Flood opening - Wikipedia

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    Most regulatory authorities in the United States that offer requirements for flood openings define two major classes of opening: [1] engineered, and non-engineered. The requirements for non-engineered openings are typically stricter, defining necessary characteristics for aspects ranging from overall size of each opening, to allowable screening or other coverage options, to number and ...

  3. Drain-waste-vent system - Wikipedia

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    The key to a functional island fixture vent is that the top elbow must be at least as high as the "flood level" (the peak possible drain water level in the sink), allowing it to serve as a de facto vacuum breaker preventing the loop from becoming a siphon for an overfilled sink, as from a clogged drain (rather than vent) line.

  4. Vent (submarine) - Wikipedia

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    The vents of the Redoutable are under the casing. The square openings in the casing are limber holes to facilitate draining the superstructure. In submarine technology a vent is a valve fitted to the top of a submarine's ballast tanks to let air escape from the top of the ballast tank and be replaced by water entering through the opening(s) called "flood ports" or "floods" at the bottom of the ...

  5. Heat and smoke vent - Wikipedia

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    The majority of guidance available for design of heat and smoke building vents installed in buildings is restricted to nonsprinklered, single-story buildings. [4] This is partly a historical consequence of the installation of heat and smoke vents following the August 1953 General Motors, Livonia, MI major fire in a nonsprinklered manufacturing facility which effectively stopped the production ...

  6. Quarter glass - Wikipedia

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    Pivoting quarter "vent" window in a front door Stationary quarter glass in a rear door. Quarter glass (or quarter light) on automobiles and closed carriages may be a side window in the front door or located on each side of the car just forward of the rear-facing rear window of the vehicle. [1] Only some cars have them.

  7. Flood control in the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    Flood control is an important issue for the Netherlands, as due to its low elevation, approximately two thirds of its area is vulnerable to flooding, while the country is densely populated. Natural sand dunes and constructed dikes , dams , and floodgates provide defense against storm surges from the sea.

  8. 1540 European drought - Wikipedia

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    The 1540 drought in Europe was a climatic event in Europe. In various palaeoclimatic analyses the temperature and precipitation regimes were reconstructed and compared to present-day conditions. On the basis of historical records Wetter et al. (2014) [ 1 ] derived that during an eleven-month period there was little rain in Europe , possibly ...

  9. List of automobiles known for negative reception - Wikipedia

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    Its body was largely inspired by the Rolls-Royce and Bentley luxury limousines of the era, most notably the Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn, but was much smaller, thus making the design and proportions look rather odd. The body was also rather heavy, which combined with the small motor made the car underpowered and slow, reaching a top speed of 63 mph ...