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This is a list of notable fire lookout towers and stations, including complexes of associated buildings and structures.This includes lookout cabins without towers which are perched high and do not require further elevation to serve for their purpose, and also includes notable lookout trees.
Weather map of the storm on October 20. Damage on the Atlantic coast was less severe, although at Jupiter, the Weather Bureau office reported: "the rainfall at this point did more damage than the wind. It had rained every day from the 3rd to the 13th, with a total fall of 5.96 inches (151 mm), and the creeks and flat woods were full of water ...
Neither Fernández-Partagás and Diaz nor the Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project could construct a track beyond the single point, with the cyclone possessing sustained winds of 60 mph (95 km/h). [3] The storm may have been associated with other weather reports in the Lesser Antilles.
While executing a clockwise loop off the Southeastern United States, the system maintained winds just below hurricane intensity. On August 22, the system ended its loop and headed westward, toward the Georgia coast. Final landfall occurred near Brunswick at 00:00 UTC on August 23. At the time, the cyclone still contained winds of 70 mph (110 km/h).
The Nacotchtank, also called the Nacostines by Catholic missionaries, maintained settlements around the Anacostia River in present-day Washington, D.C. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes ultimately displaced the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland.
Launch loop (not to scale). The red marked line is the moving loop itself, blue lines are stationary cables. A launch loop, or Lofstrom loop, is a proposed system for launching objects into orbit using a moving cable-like system situated inside a sheath attached to the Earth at two ends and suspended above the atmosphere in the middle.
Lorna Simpson was born on August 13, 1960, and grew up in Queens and Brooklyn, New York. [5] [2] Her parents, a Jamaican-Cuban father and African-American mother, [6] [7] took her to numerous plays, museums, concerts and dance performances as a child. [8]