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unusual facts about Above Ground


Above Ground

The group played locally and at the Punakaiki Music Festival (West Coast, New Zealand); and would have been forgotten like a lot of bands had Page not recorded nearly every practice and concert and organised the "Gone AIWA" cassette (1983), re-released in 2011 on vinyl by Siltbreeze.



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Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

David Coulthard performed some more doughnuts on the helipad of the Burj Al Arab luxury hotel in Dubai, 210 metres above ground level.

Baclaran LRT Station

The station is located on the last stretches of Taft Avenue, in the Pasay City portion of Baclaran, and, like all other stations on the LRT-1, Baclaran terminal is above-ground on viaduct.

BHÉV

Although most of its stations are above ground and outdoor, some are underground (for example the city centre terminus at Batthyány tér).

Brompton Road tube station

The Old London Underground Company proposed turning the above-ground buildings into a restaurant and making the underground space available to the London Fire Brigade Museum.

De Brouckère metro station

The station is named after the city square above ground, which itself is named after the former mayor of Brussels Charles de Brouckère.

Dortmund-Dorstfeld station

On 25 May 1984, the S4 service commenced on an above-ground route, which had previously been operated by class 212 locomotives, hauling Silberling carriages.

Franciscan Friary, Southampton

There were several other springs supplying water to the friary; these were located in the The Polygon, Southampton area, but no traces remain above ground.

German Workers Educational Association

The organisation served during its initial years as the "above-ground" arm of the underground League of the Just and later as a mass organisation of the Communist League.

Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation

A 17th-century account by Quaresmi, the Italian writer and Orientalist, indicates that the church was not visible above ground, but that the top of the vault of a subterranean chamber that had remained intact was at ground level.

Groundscraper

China Vanke headquarters in Shenzhen is as large as the Empire State Building, but is laid out horizontally and 5 stories above ground level.

Head house

In the context of subways, a head house refers to the part of a subway station that is above ground, which may be nothing more than a covered entrance.

Joachim Kuettner

Kuettner flight-tested the world's largest airplane, the Gigant, during World War II, narrowly escaping death as the plane broke apart in flight and his parachute opened just 200 meters (660 feet) above ground.

John Pepper

Pepper was made a member of the governing Central Executive Committee of the CPA's "above-ground" arm, the Workers Party of America, a position to which he was re-elected by the 3rd Convention in January 1924.

Lands of Brownmuir

The area is very wet with a high humidity and as a consequence the habitat is characterised by a large number of Sphagnum moss hummocks which rise up as much a metre above ground level.

Lescot

Lescot Wing, the oldest portion existing above ground level of the Louvre Palace, in Paris, France

Liverpool Central railway station

The original station, which was a large above ground terminal station, opened on 2 March 1874, at the end of the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) line to Manchester Central.

Louise Reiss

The findings helped convince U.S. President John F. Kennedy to sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the United Kingdom and Soviet Union, which ended the above-ground testing of nuclear weapons that placed the greatest amounts of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere.

Mountain Cablevision

That same year, The Ontario Housing Corporation (which designed the Buchanan Park subdivision on Hamilton Mountain) was surveying the possibility of building a whole housing project with no above-ground utilities (placing them all underground to improve safety and reliability during storms).

My Cat from Hell

Certain cats (whom he calls "tree-dwelling cats") behave better when they have access to above-ground perches, and he often instructs owners of such cats to install an above-the-floor walkway with no dead ends, in order to provide these cats with the psychological comfort of escape routes.

Nyenschantz

Nothing remains of Nyen above ground (as the land has been used for industrial development), but on June 15, 2000 a monument was opened on the site of the fortress, at the mouth of the Okhta river to a design by V. A. Reppo.

Packard's Corner

Packard's Corner is serviced by the Packards Corner stop on the B Branch of the MBTA's Green Line, a light rail line that runs mostly above ground.

POMCUS

During the late 1960s-1980s, the above-ground POMCUS facilities were updated into large aluminum-over-steel warehouses, which provided the benefits of less weathering and lower maintenance requirements for the systems stored in them, as well as providing first-line defense against EMP radiation which could affect the electronics in both the communications systems and the recently implemented solid-state ignition systems on some vehicles.

Shenzhen Special Zone Press Tower

The tower was completed in 1998 and has 47 floors above ground and 3 underground floors.

Son Sardina metro station

The above ground open-air station lies parallel to Highway Ma-11 and also serves the adjacent Ferrocarril de Sóller line going to the town of Sóller.

Stadtbahn

Gotha (Straßenbahn Gotha/Thüringerwaldbahn), above ground tramway (24 km long), in existence since 1924, to Waltershausen, Friedrichroda and Tabarz

Train shed

Market East Station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (while station is located underground, it has above-ground structures for the purpose of sheltering the platforms and trains)

United Toilers of America

In late 1921 and early 1922 a faction began to develop within the Communist Party of America which was upset with the direction the party was taking regarding legality and the creation of the "above ground" Workers Party of America.

White Triplex

An even more Rube Goldberg-like contrivance was tried, an entire separate rear axle was fitted, held above ground until dropped by a release lever and then driven by a separate driveshaft.

Woodberry, Baltimore

Three of the TV outlets, WMAR-TV (channel 2), WBAL-TV (channel 11), and WJZ-TV (channel 13)–along with radio stations WIYY (97.9 FM) and WZFT (104.3 FM)–transmit from a red-colored, tri-mast candelabra tower, which stands 997 feet (304 meters) above ground level.

Yau Tong Station

Although the train platforms are constructed above ground level, they are sealed from the outside with concrete walls to prevent the noise of trains from disturbing the nearby residents of Yau Tong Estate.

Yishun MRT Station

It was the second above-ground station to have half-height platform screen doors installed and commence operations, after Pasir Ris.