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2 unusual facts about distance


DSTC

DSTC is a generic short term for Distance in aviation terminology.

Parallel processing

This becomes most important in vision, as the brain divides what it sees into four components: color, motion, shape, and depth.


Airnav.com

Additionally available on Airnav.com is METAR, terminal aerodrome forecast (TAF), distance calculator, times of morning and evening civil twilight and sunset/sunrise to aid the pilot for decision-making purposes and to be legally equipped for night flight, airport management remarks, Notice to Airmen (NOTAM), distances to popular landmarks and attractions, hotels, cities, and closest airports.

Alamein railway line

The line is operated as a shuttle service between Camberwell and Alamein stations during off-peak periods, while trains run the whole distance to Flinders Street Station during peak hours.

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

These two were a fair distance behind the business end of the race where world indoor 60 m. champion Gevaert, who had burst out the blocks, was run down by Anim (NR) and Arron who both recorded the same time.

Battle of Tornio

Later on 6 October 1944 first small squadron from Finnish Navy consisting of gunboats Hämeenmaa and Uusimaa and patrol boats VMV 15 and VMV 16 arrived to the location to both provide anti-aircraft fire and to suppress German battery located at Laivaniemi within firing distance from the port which had kept harassing the Finnish effort to unload their transports.

Bodie Creek Suspension Bridge

It was built in 1925, from a kit fabricated in England by David Rowell & Co., in order to shorten the distance sheep needed to be driven from southern Lafonia to the shearing sheds in Goose Green.

Borden System

Because the distance between lines of longitude get smaller with increasing latitude, the Borden System changes at 64 degrees north latitude, from a width of 4 degrees of longitude to a width of 8 degrees in order to keep the area within each designate roughly the same.

Branchburg, New Jersey

Also within driving distance are Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE, formerly Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton International Airport) near Allentown, Pennsylvania, John F. Kennedy International Airport and La Guardia Airport in New York, as well as the Trenton-Mercer Airport near Trenton and Princeton in Mercer County.

Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park

When Union Major General Ambrose Burnside attacked the Cumberland Gap and Knoxville, Tennessee, Camp Nelson's distance from the Gap and Knoxville, combined with lack of railroads and the weather, hampered the Union advance.

Carlingford Court

The shopping centre is within walking distance from Carlingford railway station, the terminus of the Carlingford Line of the Sydney Trains network.

CheyTac Intervention

On the Discovery Channel TV show Future Weapons April 9, 2007 episode "Massive Attack" the host Richard Machowicz, a former United States Navy SEAL, made 3 out of 6 shots, hitting a human-sized sheet of metal at a distance of 2,530 yards (2,313 m) at Arco Pass in Idaho.

Chung Chou University of Science and Technology

The university is accessible within walking distance East from Yuanlin Station of the Taiwan Railway Administration.

Clout

Clout archery, a form of archery in which archers shoot arrows at a flag from a relatively long distance

Doug Brown

Doug Brown (athlete) (born 1952), American distance runner and two-time Olympian, who represented United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Doug Logan

Logan was the CEO of USA Track & Field, the national governing body for track and field, long distance running and race walking from 2008 to 2010.

Dumbarton Collegiate Church

St Mary's met these needs in a hospital attached to the main church building, and a separate leper house located at a "safe" distance from the town centre.

Dust Muhammad

The emperor Humayun sitting on some stone likeness of the throne, and in the distance under the trees playing three boys, one of whom the future Emperor Akbar I. Restless nature Doust Muhammad gave him root and in the court of the Mughal emperors - in the early 1560s, is already under Emperor Akbar I, Dust Muhammad left India and returned to Iran, where he lived out the last days in Qazvin.

End Hits

In addition, the band used electronic drums, synthesizers and the practice of drum-layering for the first time, which is most evident on the track "Closed Captioned." Brendan Canty explained to Tape Op Magazine in 1999 "When "Closed Captioned" was recorded, the basic tracks to it are all a drum machine and then I overdubbed two different drum sets on top of it, which I love doing, it gives distance to a song."

Etzenborn

The nearest large city is Göttingen, the Landkreis capital, about 25 km to the north-west by road, with Duderstadt just 12 km to the north-east and Heiligenstadt the same distance south.

Fatima Aouam

Fatima Aouam (born December 16, 1959) is a former female middle distance runner from Morocco Settat Guisser.

Guldberg

Mogens Guldberg (born 1963), former middle distance runner from Denmark

Hanwell railway station

The station is sited a short distance east of the Grade I-listed Wharncliffe Viaduct.

HD 36960

Assuming this event is identical to SN 1054, it would shine with an apparent magnitude of -8.71, about 1/40 as bright as the full moon despite its distance of over 1,800 light years.

Kaden

Through the buslines of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, the Westerburg-Limburg-Frankfurt and Westerburg-Altenkirchen-Cologne railway lines and the InterCityExpress stop in Montabaur, Kaden is linked to the long-distance transport network.

Kokoda Track

John Landy, the long-distance runner, set a record of four days for the crossing using carriers and guides during the 1950s, and in 1964 Angus Henry, the art teacher at Sogeri High School with two of his students, John Kadiba and Misty Baloiloi, set a new record which was to stand until after the millennium by completing the journey in three and a quarter days without guides, carriers or any signposts or bridges.

Lippisch Wien

This was followed by at least three world distance records, the last between the Wasserkuppe and Marktredwitz, a distance of 164 km (102 mi) flown on 24 August 1930.

Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California

Based on sketches made during a visit in 1863, Bierstadt paints the valley from a vantage point just above the Merced River, looking due west with the prospect framed by El Capitan on the right, and Sentinel Rock on the left; the spire of Middle Cathedral Rock is visible in the distance.

Luggie Water

From this point to the Luggie's confluence with the Kelvin is a distance of approximately 11 miles which almost agrees with Groome.

Manuel Maria Carrilho

He has also been a regular columnist at French daily Le Monde and in the Portuguese newspapers Expresso, Público, Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias and Diário de Notícias, having recently started publishing in the last one a new Thursday column, untitled «A Boa Distância» (which can both mean «The Good Distance» and «From a Good Distance»).

Mekonnen

Hailu Mekonnen (born 1980), Ethiopian long-distance runner and two-time World Cross Country medallist

Miami Mile Handicap

Open to horses age three and older, it is contested on turf over a distance of 1 mile (8 furlongs).

Oldfields School

The school's campus is situated in a section of the northern suburbs of Baltimore City and is located within walking distance of the Gunpowder River and the Northern Central Railroad Trail.

Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador

It is 130 kilometres from the capital city, St. John's, and is within easy distance of the scenic Cape Shore (including the Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve), the Irish Loop and St. Mary's Bay, Conception Bay, and the inner reaches of Placentia Bay.

Prix Gladiateur

The first version was contested over two circuits of the Champ de Mars, a distance of 4,000 metres.

Prix Perth

It is run at Saint-Cloud over a distance of 1,600 metres (about 1 mile), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late October or early November.

Radiation

Infrared may be detected at a distance from the radiating objects by "feel." Infrared sensing snakes can detect and focus infrared by use of a pinhole lens in their heads.

Rasmus Thrane Hansen

At the World Games in 2013 he placed fourth in the middle distance, an won a silver medal in the mixed relay with the Danish team.

Red Hill Valley Parkway

Opponents asserted that two groups would be the chief beneficiaries of the expressway: long-distance truckers travelling from Detroit to Buffalo, and land developers on the Hamilton Mountain.

Roderick Carr

Despite this they had covered a distance of 3,420 mi (5,506 km), which was sufficient to set a new world distance record, but which was beaten in turn within a few hours by Charles Lindbergh's solo Atlantic flight between New York and Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis, covering 3,590 mi (5,780 km).

Ruto

Paul Ruto (born 1960), Kenyan middle-distance runner and 1993 world champion

Sauberge

A few kilometres east-northeast lies Holle and some distance away to the south-east is Bockenem; a few individual districts of these town boroughs reach as far as the ridge.

Selene 6.23

"Selene 6.23" (alternative Korean: "너와 나의 거리"; literally: The Distance Between Us) is an orchestral song performed by the contemporary R&B idol group SHINee in their first collaboration with the internationally-known pianist Yiruma.

SETC

State Express Transport Corporation (Tamil Nadu) a state-owned Transport Corporation that runs long distance express services the Indian state of Tamil Nadu

Siemens Viaggio Light

In February 2009, Ynet reported serious problems with the Viaggio Light model, including a longer stopping distance when traveling north, narrow doors and corridors, and problems with the Trainlift TR 450 technology.

Steinebach an der Wied

Steinebach an der Wied is linked to the long-distance road network by Bundesstraße 8, which also links the community with the middle centres of Hachenburg and Altenkirchen.

Thamer

Thamer Kamal Ali (born 1988), Qatari middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres

This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get

PiL was supposed to score the soundtrack for the 1983 suspense film Copkiller, starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon, who worked on the material with his band mates Keith Levene and Martin Atkins (over the phone, by long distance).

Time–distance diagram

Time–distance diagrams can be created using any kind of drawing tool, certainly one which allows scaled drawing (for example, CAD editors, Visio).

Tokyo Daishōten

It is run over a distance of 2,000 meters (about 10 furlongs) at Ōi Racecourse in the Shinagawa, Tokyo in the end of the year.

Turning the other cheek

The commonly invoked Roman law of Angaria allowed the Roman authorities to demand that inhabitants of occupied territories carry messages and equipment the distance of one mile post, but prohibited forcing an individual to go further than a single mile, at the risk of suffering disciplinary actions.

Wu Wen-chien

Wu Wen-Chien (吳文騫 born June 9, 1977) is a Taiwanese Olympic long-distance runner that represented Chinese Taipei in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics in the marathon.


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