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- Steel (28384 bytes)
60: ...increasing the height of the flue to as tall as 5 meters (16 feet) and smelting as much as 350 kg (750 lb...
152: - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
28: ...area|Ranked 51st]]<br/> 488,100 [[square kilometer|km²]]<br/> Negligible
66: ... a very short person, barely taller than 150 centimeters (5 feet).
88: ...e]], along the southwestern border, reaches 2,912 meters. The Balkan Mountains in the far west and the Ku... - Mummy (16225 bytes)
67: ...he [[Eastern Han Dynasty]] (25-220 AD), was 1.8 [[meter]]s (nearly six feet) tall and might have died at ...
69: ...'s [[Silk Road]] in [[Xinjiang]], about 200 [[kilometers]] east of Yingpan. - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
8: ...in this exact spot, which had previously been a cemetery for pagans as well as Christians.
17: ...]] and [[1667]], in the center of which is a 25.5 meter tall obelisk. The [[obelisk]] was moved to its pr...
22: ...) across. It is not simply its vast scale (136.57 meters from from the floor of the church to the top of ...
97: ... letters 6 ft. (2 m) high, <small>TV ES PETRVS ET SVPER HANC PETRAM AEDIFICABO ECCLESIAM MEAM. TIBI DA... - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
3: ...s, with a diameter of 3.7 meters (11 ft). The 190 meter (625 ft) frieze winds around the shaft 23 times. ... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
36: ...;]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
93: ...Galilei]], (1564-1642), [[Italy]] — [[thermometer]]
112: ...John Harrison]], (1693-1776) — marine chronometer - Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
5: ...]]. It is 2.9 meters long and has a 2.74-meter-diameter high-gain [[antenna (electronics)|antenna]], topp...
7: ...nfrared radiometer]], and an [[imaging photopolarimeter]], which produced [[photograph]]s and measured th... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
16: ...ght from ever heating the surface. Venus's [[Bolometer|bolometric]] [[albedo]] is approximately 60%, and...
25: ... no impact crater smaller than about 3.2 km in diameter can form.
46: ...o noted changes in the size of Venus's visible diameter when it was in different phases, suggesting that ...
56: ...[[1961]] conjunction, observed by radar from a 26-meter antenna at [[Goldstone, California]], the [[Jodre...
58: ... high-temperature source (600 K). Strangely, millimeter-band observations made by A. D. Kuzmin indicated ... - Sundial (16148 bytes)
89: ...to measure angles to geographic features. Large (meter-sized) diptychs may have been used for [[navigati...
99: == Precision sundials (heliochronometers) ==
101: A precision sundial, called a '''heliochronometer''',
105: Heliochronometers usually indicate the minutes to within 1 minute ...
109: The classic shape for a heliochronometer is an ''equatorial bow sundial''. - Mammal (11782 bytes)
181: ...s]] around 130 million years old, one more than a meter in length, the other having remains of a baby din... - Lightning (33113 bytes)
44: ...times longer, and can strike several miles or kilometers distant from the clouds. During a positive ligh...
101: ...ed expanding glow around 400 km (250 miles) in diameter that lasts for, typically, just one millisecond [...
125: ...al fields being between 100 and 400 kilovolts per meter. While there remains a possibility that research...
133: ...n average only once per 50 seconds per square kilometer. Measured X-ray burst intensity also falls short...
178: ...ible. Avoid proximity to other people (minimum 5 meters or 15 feet). Since lightning spreads when it hi... - Atmospheric pressure (6841 bytes)
18: ...ts on radio, television, and newspapers. When barometers in the home are set to match the local weather r...
22: ...making this reduction differs slightly. See [[altimeter]].
24: ...metric altimeter setting which will cause the altimeter to read altitude above mean sea level in the vici...
26: ...ometric altimeter setting which will cause an altimeter to read height above a particular runway threshol...
41: ...c pressure is often measured with a mercury [[barometer]], and a height of approximately 30 inches of mer... - Cambodia (32076 bytes)
59: ...as named after the founder of that tribe, [[Kambu Svayambhuva]]. The French name for Cambodia was ''Ca...
96: ...ar faces which have been identified as [[Avalokitesvara]], which are either the king himself or the gu...
156: ...[Ratanak Kiri]], [[Siemreap]], [[Stung Treng]], [[Svay Rieng]] and [[Tak鯝]
169: ...etnam]] on the east and southeast. It has 443 kilometers of coastline along the [[Gulf of Thailand]].
171: ... the [[Dangrek Mountains]] (average elevation 500 meters) along the border with Thailand's [[Isan]] regio... - Bottlenose Dolphin (16802 bytes)
59: ...hich may be male). A single calf is born, about 1 meter (3 feet) long at birth.
104: ... the television series ''[[SeaQuest DSV|seaQuest DSV]]''. Thanks to an invention by Lucas Wolenczak ([... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
24: ...nce as the wave travels, so the energy per linear meter in the wave decreases as the inverse power of the... - Long-distance track event (2855 bytes)
5: ===3,000 meter steeplechase===
7: ...rength, stamina and agility than the flat [[3,000 meter]] event. The world record for men is:
15: ===5,000 meters===
17: ...ch an event may comprise of a total of 60-200 kilometers a week. The world record for men:
25: ===10,000 meters=== - Forbidden City (7592 bytes)
3:
14: ...tween the gates in the east and west walls is 750 meters. The walls are thick and squat and were specific... - Palermo (10618 bytes)
42: The Cathedral has a [[heliometer]] (solar "observatory") of 1690, one of a number{...
47: ...degrees of preservation. Close to the city is 600 meter high Monte Pellegrino, with spectacular views of ...
69: ... paper from University of Bologna describing Heliometers in Italian Cathedrals.] - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
26: |'''Diameter'''||2.4 m
34: |'''[[NICMOS]]'''||camera/spectrometer
40: |'''[[STIS]]'''||spectrometer/camera (failed)
54: ...or a telescope with a [[mirror]] 2.5 m in diameter. The second major advantage would be that a spac...
60: ...flecting telescope]] with a mirror 3 m in diameter, known provisionally as the Large Orbiting Telesc... - Alfalfa (6719 bytes)
20: ... deep [[root]] system sometimes stretching to 4.5 meters. This makes it very resilient, especially to dro...
49: ...typically 4.5 to 6 feet (1.4 to 1.8 meters) in diameter and weighing upwards of 1,000 pounds. These bales...
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