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40 meters – wingspan of the Mil Mi-26, the largest helicopter; 40 meters – average depth beneath the seabed of the Channel tunnel; 49 meters – wavelength of the broadcast radio shortwave band at 6.1 MHz; 50 meters – length of a road train; 50 meters – height of the Arc de Triomphe; 55 meters – height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Dedicated by President Harry S. Truman, February 22, 1950 Equestrian Statue of General Ulysses S. Grant: 5.23: 17.2: Henry Shrady: 1924: Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, west of United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. bronze: Stands upon a 6.86 (22.5 ft) pedestal
Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man.He is the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence.
Michigan's personal income tax is a flat rate of 4.25%. In addition, 22 cities impose income taxes; rates are set at 1% for residents and 0.5% for non-residents in all but four cities. [135] Michigan's state sales tax is 6%, though items such as food and medication are exempted.
The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 3.04. In the village, the population was spread out, with 26.1% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 30.1% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.2 males.
There were 7,908 households, out of which 31.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.8% were married couples living together, 15.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.6% were non-families. 31.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or ...
[22] Ann Arbor became the seat of Washtenaw County in 1827 [23] and was incorporated as a village in 1833. [24] The Ann Arbor Land Company, a group of speculators, set aside 40 acres (16 ha) of undeveloped land and offered it to the state of Michigan as the site of the state capitol, but lost the bid to Lansing.
HR 8799 is a roughly 30 million-year-old main-sequence star located 133.3 light-years (40.9 parsecs) away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus. It has roughly 1.5 times the Sun's mass and 4.9 times its luminosity. It is part of a system that also contains a debris disk and at least four massive planets.