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Hygroscopy is the phenomenon of attracting and holding water ... These counter palisade cells, being hygroscopic, respond to external humidity by swelling and closing ...
The Palisades Sill as seen from the Palisades Interstate Parkway. The Hudson River is the background. The Palisades Sill is a Triassic, 200 Ma diabase intrusion.It extends through portions of New York and New Jersey.
Palisade Crest is a jagged ridge in The Palisades's region of the Sierra Nevada southeast of Mount Sill and northwest of Middle Palisade. Its twelve pinnacles are unofficially named for characters from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. [6] The highest pinnacle, at 13,559 feet (4,133 m), is called Gandalf Peak. [7]
Palisade Head, a headland on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota; Mississippi Palisades State Park, encompassing cliffs along the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois; Kentucky River Palisades, cliffs along the Kentucky River in central Kentucky; Canada. Jasper Palisade, a mountain formation in Jasper National Park, Alberta
Luigi Mangione, who authorities accuse of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly wrote in a notebook that he considered bombing Manhattan to carry out the killing but did not ...
Middle Plantation's growth was encouraged by the completion in 1634 of a continuous fortification, or palisade, across the peninsula a distance of about 6 miles (9.7 km) between Archer's Hope Creek (later renamed College Creek), which drained southerly to the James River and Queen's Creek, which drained northerly to the York River.
North Palisade is the third-highest mountain in the Sierra Nevada range of California, and one of the state's small number of peaks over 14,000 feet, known as fourteeners. It is the highest peak of the Palisades group of peaks in the central part of the Sierra range.
On June 23, 2015, officials of the South Korean conglomerate LG Group announced that their planned new North American headquarters building in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, which was originally designed to be 143 feet (44 m) tall, and would have broken the tree line on top of the Palisades, would be reduced to 69 feet (21 m) in height, thus ...