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  2. Hull and Selby Railway - Wikipedia

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    Piers for the swing span consisted of eight cast iron cylinders tapering from 6 to 4.5 feet (1.8 to 1.4 m) diameter from base to top which surrounded a ninth cylinder of 7 feet (2.1 m) base diameter; the 1.5 inches (38 mm) wall width cylinders were sunk to the level of sandstone bedrock at a depth of around 78 feet (24 m); after which they were ...

  3. Kursk front of the Russo-Ukrainian War - Wikipedia

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    The Russian MOD claimed to have recaptured the village of Krupets. It also confirmed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had advanced approximately two kilometers. [143] [144] Ukraine lost a HIMARS launcher in a missile strike in Sumy Oblast. [25]

  4. Actinide - Wikipedia

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    The actinide (/ ˈ æ k t ɪ n aɪ d /) or actinoid (/ ˈ æ k t ɪ n ɔɪ d /) series encompasses at least the 14 metallic chemical elements in the 5f series, with atomic numbers from 89 to 102, actinium through nobelium.

  5. Finite element method - Wikipedia

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    The application of FEM gained momentum in the 1960s and 1970s due to the developments of J. H. Argyris and his co-workers at the University of Stuttgart; R. W. Clough and his co-workers at University of California Berkeley; O. C. Zienkiewicz and his co-workers Ernest Hinton, Bruce Irons, [9] and others at Swansea University; Philippe G. Ciarlet ...

  6. Holland Tunnel - Wikipedia

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    The workers who were performing the excavations, who were referred to as "sandhogs", were to dig each pair of tubes from either bank of the Hudson River, so that the two sides would eventually connect somewhere underneath the riverbed. The tunnel was to be 9,250 feet (2,820 m) long between portals, and the roadway was to descend to a maximum ...

  7. Finland - Wikipedia

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    Finland, [a] officially the Republic of Finland, [b] [c] is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia.

  8. Great Pyramid of Giza - Wikipedia

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    The Great Pyramid of Giza [a] is the largest Egyptian pyramid.It served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.Built c. 2600 BC, [3] over a period of about 26 years, [4] the pyramid is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only wonder that has remained largely intact.

  9. Malaria - Wikipedia

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    Experts say that malaria could be eliminated as wild disease of humans by the year 2050. World class experts (41 of them) in fields such as malariology, biomedicine, economics and health policy advocated more funding, a central data repository for dealing with local outbreaks of malaria, and training the workers needed to carry out the plan.