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  2. Simpson's Corner, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

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    Simpson's Corner on Destination Nova Scotia 44°32′6.67″N 64°47′3.54″W  /  44.5351861°N 64.7843167°W  / 44.5351861; -64.7843167  ( Simpsons Corner, Nova This Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia location article is a stub .

  3. Confederate monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

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    Type 1 was a Confederate soldier on a column with his weapon at parade rest, or weaponless and gazing into the distance. These accounted for approximately half the monuments studied. They are, however, the most popular among the courthouse monuments. Type 2 was a Confederate soldier on a column with rifle ready, or carrying a flag or bugle.

  4. George Washington Masonic National Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The 1924 construction year ended in December with the installation of eight green marble columns (each weighing 11 to 18 short tons (10.0 to 16.3 t)) in the first floor atrium. [32] Each column was 18 feet (5.5 m) high and 4.5 feet (1.4 m) in diameter, [ 83 ] and arrived at Alexandria's Union Station by train from Redstone, New Hampshire . [ 68 ]

  5. Capital (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The two earliest Egyptian capitals of importance are those based on the lotus and papyrus plants respectively, and these, with the palm tree capital, were the chief types employed by the Egyptians, until under the Ptolemies in the 3rd to 1st centuries BC, various other river plants were also employed, and the conventional lotus capital went through various modifications.

  6. Simpson's rules (ship stability) - Wikipedia

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    Simpson's rules are used to calculate the volume of lifeboats, [6] and by surveyors to calculate the volume of sludge in a ship's oil tanks. For instance, in the latter, Simpson's 3rd rule is used to find the volume between two co-ordinates. To calculate the entire area / volume, Simpson's first rule is used. [7]

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  8. Brother's Little Helper - Wikipedia

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    Mark McGwire appears, distracts the citizens with a long home run, and hides all the evidence under his cap. Marge takes Bart off Focusyn for good and puts him on Ritalin. Major League Baseball, however, is still spying on the Simpson family: the autographed bat that McGwire gave Bart has a hidden camera.

  9. Glossary of rail transport terms - Wikipedia

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    Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail ...