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3 unusual facts about Asphalt


Apply Some Pressure

The song has also been featured in several video games such as SSX On Tour, Burnout Revenge, SingStar Rocks!, and the PlayStation Portable version of Asphalt: Urban GT 2.

Marshall Stability Method

Marshall Stability Method is used in pavement design to determine the Optimum Binder Content (OBC) in bitumen pavement.

Singapore Petroleum Company

These include Naphtha, Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Motor Gasoline, Industrial Diesel/Automotive Diesel Oil, Sulphur and Asphalt.


A. P. T. James

In 1919 James left Tobago for Trinidad, where he worked in the oil fields and later as a stevedore, working for Brighton Lake Asphalt, which produced and exported asphalt from the Pitch Lake in La Brea.

Alaba Kulito

Alaba Kulito is an important marketing and communication center, connected by asphalt road to the capital Addis Ababa, Shashamane and Arba Minch, and by gravel road to Hosaena.

Asphalt 3: Street Rules

Asphalt 3: Street Rules is a racing video game that was released in 2006 on Java-based mobile phones, in 2007 on non-Java based mobile phones and was also released in 2008 for Nokia's N-Gage 2.0 gaming platform.

Bonanza, Utah

The basis for establishing the community was a discovery of Gilsonite, a natural asphalt substance.

Carpinteria Tar Pits

The Carpinteria Tar Pits are one of the five natural asphalt lake areas in the world, the others being Tierra de Brea in Trinidad and Tobago, Lake Guanoco in Venezuela and the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits (Los Angeles) and McKittrick Tar Pits (McKittrick) both also located in the US state of California.

Carrie Sharples

Carrie was a whiz at cooking, unlike her son, whose cooking skills left quite a lot to be desired (his pancakes were considered great for roof shingles; {Lisa Douglas from Green Acres also made inedible pancakes} his brownies tasted like asphalt, etc.), and when she took over the stove at Mel's, business was excellent.

Daughters of Danaus

In Monday Begins on Saturday, it is mentioned that the Danaids had their case reviewed in modern times, and, due to mitigating circumstances (the marriage being forced) had their punishment changed to laying down and then immediately demolishing asphalt.

Dover Motorsports Incorporated

Dover Motorsports owned Memphis Motorsports Park, a .75 mile tri-oval asphalt short track in Millington, Tennessee, but closed the track in October 2009 to competition and was sold to Palm Beach International Raceway after sitting unused for over a year.

Dragon, Utah

The reason for the town's existence was the veins of natural asphalt called Gilsonite, found nowhere else in the world, that run southeast to northwest through this region.

Francesco Bracotti

Bracotti was 4 years old when he tasted the asphalt the first time, on the go-kart circuit of Cattolica.

Gernatt Family of Companies

The Gernatt Family of Companies can also be found on the worldwide, professional social network, LinkedIn, under Gernatt Asphalt Products, Inc.

Herod the Great

He and Cleopatra owned a monopoly over the extraction of asphalt from the Dead Sea, which was used in shipbuilding.

Ianina Zanazzi

On June 1, 2000, Zanazzi was testing her Formula 3 Light car at Río Cuarto circuit and had a spun off due to an oil spot on the asphalt.

James H. Faulkner

These included International Paper Container Division, Kaiser Aluminum, Alpine Industries Laboratories, Baldwin Utility Structures, Baldwin Lighting, Eastwood-Neally Company, Colt Industries, Jinan, Holland Industrial Services, Gulf Packaging Company, Cedartown Paper Board Cores, Baldwin Asphalt, Yellow Hammer Building Systems, Barclay, Bay Minette Mills, Baldwin Pole and Piling, Den-Tal-Ez, and Standard Furniture.

Janus Kamban

Since 1970 he has lived in a house on the coast (Yviri við Strond in Tórshavn) with a view to Nólsoy, built according to his specifications in the classical style, with black asphalt outside walls and grass roof.

Kosciusko, St. Louis

It houses two softball fields, an asphalt walking trail, and both a monument to General Lyon (sculpted by Adolphus Druiding) and a statue of his likeness created by artist Charles Steubenraugh.

Lagina

The site is situated at 9 kilometers distance from the Yatağan-Milas highway, served by an asphalt road bifurcating shortly after the Yatağan Thermal Power Plant when coming from Yatağan.

Lake Bermudez

Lake Guanoco is one of the five natural asphalt lake areas in the world, the others being Tierra de Brea in Trinidad and Tobago and Rancho La Brea (Los Angeles), McKittrick Tar Pits (McKittrick) and Carpinteria Tar Pits (Carpinteria) all located in the US state of California.

Lake Wobegon Trails

This bicycle trail continues beyond milepost 143.5 as the Soo Line Trail, crossing the Mississippi River at the Blanchard Dam, changing from asphalt to gravel at U.S. 10 south of Little Falls, and extending to Onamia.

Mario Segale

Segale's firm M.A. Segale Inc., a privately owned asphalt and construction business, sold for $60 million in 1998 to Irish concern CRH plc, for integration into its Oldcastle Materials unit.

Maychew

It is located at 665 km north of Addis Ababa along the Asphalt road that runs to Mekelle (the capital city of Tigray region) with an altitude of 2479 m.

McKittrick Tar Pits

The McKittrick Tar Pits are one of the five natural asphalt lake areas in the world, the others being Tierra de Brea in Trinidad and Tobago, Lake Guanoco in Venezuela and the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits (Los Angeles) and Carpinteria Tar Pits (Carpinteria) both also located in the US state of California.

Orange County Speedway

Orange County Speedway is a 3/8 mile (0.6 km) asphalt oval in Orange County, North Carolina, near Rougemont.

Oraristrix

Oraristix brea, the Brea Owl, is the an extinct owl reported from the upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits of Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California.

The Brea Owl has also been found in the upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits of Carpinteria, California.

Perth Amboy Refinery

-- You will notice the asphalt smell when you cross the bridge--> Via rail it is served by Conrail's Chemical Coast and the former Perth Amboy and Woodbridge lines.

Prithvi Singh Kandhal

Kandhal has served as chairman of the US Transportation Research Board Committee on Asphalt Mixtures (6 years); chairman of the ASTM International D04 Committee on Road and Paving Materials (2 years) which is responsible for over 200 standards used worldwide; president of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, which has members in all continents of the world; and chairman of the American Society of Civil Engineers Subcommittee on Asphalt.

After graduation from Iowa State, Kandhal joined the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) as Chief Asphalt Engineer in 1970 after a brief stint with Berger Associates as highway engineer.

RAGBRAI

On May 31, 2013, a large sinkhole, at least 20 feet wide by 5 feet deep, occurred along Iowa Highway 384 (160th Road in Guthrie County ) under the asphalt at the entrance of Springbrook State Park, which is near the boat ramp at the base of Mockingbird Hill.

Railways in Ely

Cemex operates an asphalt and building materials depot at the site.

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

Toynbee tiles are linoleum tiles of unknown origin found embedded in the asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in the United States and four South American capitals.

Rice-Eccles Stadium

A full natural grass was installed in 2000 for two seasons, then was covered by asphalt blacktop for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in February.

Riverside International Speedway

Riverside Speedway is a 1/3 mile, high banked, asphalt short track located in James River, Nova Scotia, Canada, about ten kilometres southwest of the town of Antigonish.

Ron Barfield, Jr.

He now runs a racing shop in Timmonsville, SC and Dillon Motor Speedway, a new 4/10 mile asphalt race track in Dillon, SC.

Sarah Cameron Sunde

In 2004, she translated and directed Jon Fosse’s Night Sings Its Songs at the Culture Project in New York City, and the following year she directed The Asphalt Kiss by Nelson Rodrigues at the Off-Broadway 59E59 Theaters.

Stefan Janoski

Janoski was handpicked as a team member for Stevie Williams's clothing company Asphalt Yacht Club (AYC) that was launched in mid-July 2013.

Sykia, Voula

It is next to the asphalt road continuing from the cemetery of Voula.

The Asphalt Jungle

Burnett's novel The Asphalt Jungle was the basis of the western film The Badlanders (1958) directed by Delmer Daves, as well as the blaxploitation film Cool Breeze (1972), directed by Barry Pollack.

Tony Siscone

Most Notably, Siscone was a very successful asphalt modified racecar driver from 1972 through 1994.

Veidekke Industry

In 1995, Veidekke Industry and Shell joined forces to work on a difficult challenge: The development of a process for making asphalt at lower temperatures without sacrificing the quality of the product.

Viator picis

Viator picis is an extinct genus and species of lapwing (Charadriiformes; Charadriidae; Vanellinae) known only from the upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits known as the Talara Tar Seeps, which are found near Talara, northwestern Peru.


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