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  • Thumbnail for Tunnel
    A tunnel is an underground or undersea passageway. It is dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, or laid under water, and is enclosed except for the...
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    The wreck of the Titanic lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet (3,800 metres; 2,100 fathoms), about 370 nautical miles (690 kilometres) south-southeast...
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  • Thumbnail for Aircraft in fiction
    Various real-world aircraft have long made significant appearances in fictional works, including books, films, toys, TV programs, video games, and other...
    402 KB (44,179 words) - 05:25, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rosinco
    Rosinco was a diesel-powered luxury yacht that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1928. The yacht was built in 1916 as Georgiana...
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    The Worcester class was a class of light cruisers used by the United States Navy, laid down in 1945 and commissioned in 1948–49. They and their contemporaries...
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    The Juneau-class cruisers were United States Navy light cruisers that were modified version of the Atlanta-class cruiser design. The ships had the same...
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    In road transportation in the United States, a special route is a road in a numbered highway system that diverts a specific segment of related traffic...
    22 KB (2,655 words) - 03:52, 25 June 2023
  • In aeronautical engineering, overall pressure ratio, or overall compression ratio, is the ratio of the stagnation pressure as measured at the front and...
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  • Thumbnail for Izmaylovskaya (Moscow Metro)
    Izmaylovskaya (Russian: Измайловская) is a Moscow Metro station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. It is one of the few surface level stations of the system...
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  • Thumbnail for Swansea Constitution Hill Incline Tramway
    The Swansea Constitution Hill Incline Tramway operated a cable funicular tramway service on Constitution Hill in Swansea between 1898 and 1901. The Swansea...
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  • A light railway is a railway built at lower costs and to lower standards than typical "heavy rail": it uses lighter-weight track, and may have more steep...
    11 KB (1,460 words) - 16:25, 26 April 2023
  • Ras el Ma Airfield Ras el Ma Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Morocco, located in the southeast suburbs of Ras Kebdana.[dubious...
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  • Thumbnail for Twenty railway station
    Twenty railway station served the village of Twenty in Lincolnshire, England. It was on the route of the Spalding and Bourne Railway (opened 1866), later...
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    Wilhelm Maybach (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈmaɪbax] ; 9 February 1846 – 29 December 1929) was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s...
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  • Thumbnail for M1 motorway (Northern Ireland)
    The M1 is a motorway in Northern Ireland. It is the longest motorway in Northern Ireland and runs for 38 miles (61 km) from Belfast to Dungannon through...
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  • Thumbnail for Ayrshire Bus Owners (A1 Service)
    Ayrshire Bus Owners (A1 Service) Ltd was a prominent independent co-operative bus operator in Ayrshire, Scotland. Based in Ardrossan, it provided local...
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  • Aviation portal This is a list of aviation-related events from 1905: In Santa Clara, California, Daniel J. Maloney flies for 20 minutes with a glider after...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Thunderer (1872)
    HMS Thunderer was one of two Devastation-class ironclad turret ships built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s. She suffered two serious accidents before the...
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  • Thumbnail for Pawling station
    Pawling station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Pawling, New York. Though the New York and Harlem Railroad...
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  • Jhalawar City railway station is a small railway station in Jhalawar, Rajasthan. Its code is JLWC. It serves Jhalawar city. The station consists of a single...
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