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Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.The main residence, Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 [2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft ...
A magma chamber is a large pool of liquid rock beneath the surface of the Earth. The molten rock, or magma, in such a chamber is less dense than the surrounding country rock, which produces buoyant forces on the magma that tend to drive it upwards. [1] If the magma finds a path to the surface, then the result will be a volcanic eruption ...
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted October 18, 2024.[2] N. First and E. Washington Sts. Washington St. between Drake and N. Court Sts. Roughly 100-400 W. Washington and 100-300 E. Washington Sts. Portions of 26 blocks on Main, Washington, Church, Battle, Hammond, Hill, Howard, Ivy, Gay, Goldleaf, and ...
The 8,014-acre (32.43 km 2) [1] park is located 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Asheville, North Carolina, and is owned and managed by the state of North Carolina. [ 2 ] The park features hiking trails for all skill levels, views of the Devil's Head balancing rock , and a 404-foot (123 m) waterfall , Hickory Nut Falls .
Axial Seamount. Axial Seamount (also Coaxial Seamount or Axial Volcano) is a seamount, submarine volcano, and underwater shield volcano [3] in the Pacific Ocean, located on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, approximately 480 km (298 mi) west of Cannon Beach, Oregon. Standing 1,100 m (3,609 ft) high, [4] Axial Seamount is the youngest volcano and current ...
October 12, 2024 at 7:00 AM. A local police car is seen half engulfed in mud, in a flooded area of Lake Lure, North Carolina. (Allison Joyce/AFP/Getty Images) Powerful hurricanes that wreaked ...
The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people. This time, test your knowledge of voting booths, popular foods, American travel and more.
On March 27, 1980, a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States. A series of phreatic blasts occurred from the summit and escalated until a major explosive eruption took place on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 am. The eruption, which had a volcanic explosivity index of 5 ...