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Fort Vermilion: British Columbia: 49.6 °C (121 °F) [2] June 29, 2021 ... Highest temperatures ever recorded in Canada. Date Recorded Location Temperature
Minimum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888 Maximum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888. The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [1]
Fastest ever recorded: 484±32 km/h (301±20 mph) (3-second gust); calculated by a DOW (Doppler On Wheels) radar unit in the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado between Oklahoma City and Moore, Oklahoma, USA, 3 May 1999. Recently, the wind speeds were re-examined and adjusted to a maximum official wind speed of 321 mph (516.6 km/h).
Star Fort in Komárno, Slovakia Nové Zámky – only to be seen as a hexagonally shaped city centre Komárno – mostly preserved city fortification complex contains Komárno fortress (New and Old) and fortifications of the city as Palatine's line and Vah's line and also three forts in the area of neighbouring city Komárom (Igmand, Csillag ...
A bastion fort or trace italienne (a phrase derived from non-standard French, meaning 'Italian outline') is a fortification in a style developed during the early modern period in response to the ascendancy of gunpowder weapons such as cannon, which rendered earlier medieval approaches to fortification obsolete.
While mostly used for offensive purposes, the first recorded use of a cannon in Europe was to defend the city of Algeciras during the siege of 1343-44. [2] However slow to load, cannons proved to be devastating weapons that could level a city's walls or destroy siege engines with only a single projectile.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Alaska occurred in Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915, when it reached 100 °F (37.8 °C). [ 9 ] [ 10 ] This was also the highest temperature recorded north of the Arctic Circle until June 20, 2020, when it was finally exceeded by a 38 °C (100.4 °F) reading at Verkhoyansk , [ 11 ] [ 12 ] a location similarly ...
Aerial photograph of Fort Vossegat, Utrecht, Netherlands. From very early history to modern times, defensive walls have often been necessary for cities to survive in an ever-changing world of invasion and conquest. Some settlements in the Indus Valley Civilization were the first small cities to be fortified.