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Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury.It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among ...
≡ 1 ⁄ 12 in [7] = 0.002 11 6 m link (Gunter's; Surveyor's) lnk ≡ 1 ⁄ 100 ch [4] ≡ 0.66 ft (US) ≡ 7.92 in ≈ 0.201 1684 m: link (Ramsden's; Engineer's) lnk ≡ 1 ft [4] = 0.3048 m metre (SI base unit) (meter) m ≡ Distance light travels in 1 ⁄ 299 792 458 of a second in vacuum. [8] (SI base unit) mickey: ≡ 1 ⁄ 200 in = 1.27 ...
Name and description Height County Image Airport Boulder, at Martha Lake Airport Park in Martha Lake, said to be "one of the largest glacial erratic boulders in urban King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties", [9] is approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) long on its longest axis and about twice a man's height.
Standing Rock is now covered by the waters of Lake Eufaula. The historic landmark stood in the middle of the Canadian river about two miles (3.2 km) below the junction of the North and South Canadians. When the lake is at its top level, 585 feet (178 m), the top of the huge upright rock is approximately 25 feet (7.6 m) below the surface. [7]
Mount Massive (Arapaho: Hiwoxuu hookuhu'ee) is the second-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado.It is located in the Mount Massive Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 10.6 miles (17.1 km) west-southwest (bearing 247°) of the City of Leadville in Lake County, Colorado, United States.
The displaced water and the displacement and folding of the sediments broke and uplifted 1,300 feet (400 meters) of ice along the entire front of the Lituya Glacier at the north end of Gilbert Inlet. Also, the impact and the sediment displacement by the rockfall resulted in an air bubble and in water splashing action that reached the 1,720-foot ...
Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.
Hawaii (/ h ə ˈ w aɪ. i / ⓘ hə-WY-ee; [10] Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi, həˈwɐjʔi]) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland.