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Amsterdam has more than 100 kilometers of canals, most of which are navigable by boat.

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Days with more than 1.0 mm of precipitation are common, on average 133 days per year.

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Amsterdam's average annual precipitation is 838 mm .

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The city holds the Dam to Dam Run, a 16 kilometers race from Amsterdam to Zaandam, as well as the Amsterdam Marathon.

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Bicycles are used by all socio-economic groups because of their convenience, Amsterdam's small size, the 400 kilometers of bike paths,

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The town of Hilversum, 30 kilometers south-east of Amsterdam, has been crowned with this unofficial title.

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The first Audi automobile, the Audi Type A 10/ 22 horsepower Sport-Phaeton, was produced in the same year, followed by the successor Type B 10/28PS in the same year.

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The five-cylinder was soon dropped as a major engine choice; however, a turbocharged 220 horsepower version remained.

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The 2.1 L inline five-cylinder engine was used as a base for the rally cars in the 1980s, providing well over 400 horsepower after modification.

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The 2011 Audi A8 debuted a revised 6.3-litre version of the W12 (WR12) engine with 500 horsepower .

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The Audi S1 employed Audi's time-tested inline-five-cylinder turbocharged engine, with the final version generating 441 kilowatts .

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The R8s (which were built to old LMP900 regulations) received a narrower air inlet restrictor, reducing power, and an additional 50 kilograms of weight compared to the newer LMP1 chassis.

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Compared to engines using propellers, jet engines can provide much higher thrust, higher speeds and, above about 40000 feet , greater efficiency.

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The Bell family soon purchased a farm of 10 acres at Tutelo Heights (now called Tutela Heights), near Brantford, Ontario.

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On August 3, 1876, from the telegraph office in Brantford, Ontario, Bell sent a tentative telegram to the village of Mount Pleasant 4 miles distant, indicating that he was ready.

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The third test on August 10, 1876, was made via the telegraph line between Brantford and Paris, Ontario, 8 miles distant.

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One of the first telephones in a private residence was installed in his palace in Petrópolis, his summer retreat 40 miles from Rio de Janeiro.

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On June 21, 1880, Bell's assistant transmitted a wireless voice telephone message a considerable distance, from the roof of the Franklin School in Washington, D.C., to Bell at the window of his laboratory, some 213 meters away, 19 years before the first voice radio transmissions.

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A top speed of 54 mph was achieved, with the hydrofoil exhibiting rapid acceleration, good stability, and steering, along with the ability to take waves without difficulty.

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Bell's report to the U.S. Navy permitted him to obtain two 350 horsepower engines in July 1919.

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On September 9, 1919, the HD-4 set a world marine speed record of 70 mph , a record which stood for ten years.

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"Selfridge Aerodrome Sails Steadily for 319 feet ."

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The iPhone features a 3 inches touchscreen display, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi (both "b" and "g").

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This Apple campus has six buildings that total 850000 sqft and was built in 1993 by Sobrato Development Cos.

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In 2006, Apple announced its intention to build a second campus in Cupertino about 1.0 miles east of the current campus and next to Interstate 280.

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Another partnership announced is with the World Wildlife Fund to preserve up to 1000000 acres of forests in China.

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It covers an area of 6313 sqkm .

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Aberdeenshire is in the rain shadow of the Grampians, therefore it is a generally dry climate, with portions of the coast, receiving 25 inches of moisture annually.

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Although the ancient Egyptians did not use coinage until the Late period, they did use a type of money-barter system, Meskell (2004) p. 23 with standard sacks of grain and the deben, a weight of roughly 91 grams of copper or silver, forming a common denominator.

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The ship dating to 3000 BC was 75 feet long and is now thought to perhaps have belonged to an earlier pharaoh, perhaps one as early as Hor-Aha.

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The "Khufu ship", a 43 meters vessel sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza in the Fourth Dynasty around 2500 BC, is a full-size surviving example that may have filled the symbolic function of a solar barque.

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weight = 1 pounds with battery

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In 1995, an exhibit design firm, DMCD Inc., was awarded the contract to design a new 100000 sqft science museum in the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.

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Aluminium trichloride (AlCl 3 ) has a layered polymeric structure below its melting point of 192 °C , but transforms on melting to Al 2 Cl 6 dimers with a concomitant increase in volume by 85% and a near-total loss of electrical conductivity.

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As corundum is very hard (Mohs hardness 9), has a high melting point of 2045 °C , has very low volatility, is chemically inert, and a good electrical insulator, it is often used in abrasives (such as toothpaste), as a refractory material, and in cermanics, as well as being the starting material for the electrolytic production of aluminium metal.

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All three are prepared by direct reaction of their elements at about 1000 °C and quickly hydrolyse completely in water to yield aluminium hydroxide and the respective hydrogen chalcogenide.

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Aluminium carbide (Al 4 C 3 ) is made by heating a mixture of the elements above 1000 °C .

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It can be made from the elements at 800 °C .

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Also of theoretical interest but only of fleeting existence are Al 2 O and Al 2 S. Al 2 O is made by heating the normal oxide, Al 2 O 3 , with silicon at 1800 °C in a vacuum.

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is 80 kilograms .

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Aluminium salts are remarkably nontoxic, aluminium sulfate having an LD 50 of 6207 mg/kg (oral, mouse), which corresponds to 500 grams for an 80 kilograms person.

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Lying near each other (the main Barbuda airport is less than 0.5° of latitude, or 30 nautical miles , north of the main Antigua airport), Antigua and Barbuda are in the middle of the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles, roughly at 17°N of the equator.

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The highest point on Antigua is Boggy Peak, the remnant of a volcanic crater rising 402 meters .

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About 25 miles south-west of Antigua lies the small, rocky island of Redonda, which is uninhabited.

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Rainfall averages 990 mm per year, with the amount varying widely from season to season.

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Situated 12 miles north-west of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise on the D71 road between Hesdin and Fruges

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At the northern end of the boulevard, Speer planned to build the Volkshalle, a huge domed assembly hall over 700 feet high, with floor space for 180,000 people.

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At the southern end of the avenue, a great triumphal arch, almost 400 feet high and able to fit the Arc de Triomphe inside its opening, was planned.

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He had walked more than 30000 kilometers , ending his sentence near Guadalajara, Mexico.

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The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, and stretch approximately 1200 kilometers across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia. [

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Mont Blanc spans the French–Italian border, and at 4809 meters is the highest mountain in the Alps.

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The Alpine region area contains about a hundred peaks higher than 4000 meters .

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Wildlife such as ibex live in the higher peaks to elevations of 3400 meters , and plants such as Edelweiss grow in rocky areas in lower elevations as well as in higher elevations.

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The mean height of the mountain peaks is 2 kilometers .

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The second-highest major peaks are Monte Rosa at 4634 meters and Ortler Excluding the Piz Zupò and Piz Roseg located in the Bernina range, close to Piz Bernina.

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at 3905 meters , respectively

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The lowest of the Alpine passes at 985 meters , the Semmering crosses from Lower Austria to Styria; since the 12th century when a hospice was built there, it has seen continuous use.

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A railroad with a tunnel 1.0 miles long was built along the route of the pass in the mid-19th century.

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With a summit of 2469 meters , the Great St. Bernard Pass is one of the highest in the Alps, crossing the Italian-Swiss border east of the Pennine Alps along the flanks of Mont Blanc.

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The Saint Gotthard Pass crosses from Central Switzerland to Ticino; in 1882 the 15 kilometers Saint Gotthard Railway Tunnel was opened connecting Lucerne in Switzerland, with Milan in Italy.

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98 years later followed Gotthard Road Tunnel ( 16 kilometers long) connecting the A2 motorway in Göschenen on the German-Swiss side with Airolo on the Italian-Swiss side, exactly like the railway tunnel.

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On June 1, 2016 the world's longest railway tunnel, the Gotthard Base Tunnel was opened, which connects Erstfeld in canton of Uri with Bodio in canton of Ticino by two single tubes of 57 kilometers .

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Haute Maurienne (Ambin and Vanoise massifs) and its exposed crystalline basement made of high-pressure subduction rocks such as blueschist and metaquartzite (picture taken at 2400 meters )clear

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The Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA) has defined a list of 82 "official" Alpine summits that reach at least 4000 meters .

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Below are listed the 22 "four-thousanders" with at least 500 meters of prominence.

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Louis Agassiz's studies of the Unteraar Glacier in the 1840s showed that it moved at 100 meters per year.

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Agassiz studied glacier movement in the 1840s at the Unteraar Glacier where he found the glacier moved 100 meters per year, more rapidly in the middle than at the edges.

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High levels of precipitation cause the glaciers to descend to permafrost levels in some areas whereas in other, more arid regions, glaciers remain above about the 3500 meters level.

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2011), 3 The Rhine originates in a 30 sqkm area in Switzerland and represents almost 60 percent of water exported from the country.

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The Aletsch Glacier with pine trees growing on the hillside (2007; the surface is 180 meters lower than 150 years ago)

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In the Alps, several species of flowering plants have been recorded above 4000 meters , including Ranunculus glacialis, Androsace alpina and Saxifraga biflora. ''

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The largest mammal to live in the highest altitudes are the alpine ibex, which have been sighted as high as 3000 meters .

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Marmots live almost exclusively above the tree line as high as 2700 meters .

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Golden eagles and bearded vultures are the largest birds to be found in the Alps; they nest high on rocky ledges and can be found at altitudes of 2400 meters .

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Blue butterflies can commonly be seen drinking from the snow melt; some species of blues fly as high as 1800 meters .

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Shoumatoff (2001), 93 The butterflies tend to be large, such as those from the swallowtail Parnassius family, with a habitat that ranges to 1800 meters .

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Shoumatoff (2001), 91 Spiders, such as the large wolf spider, live above the snow line and can be seen as high as 400 meters .

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The salt mines surrounding the Altaussee area, where American troops found 75 kilograms of gold coins stored in a single mine, were used to store looted art, jewels, and currency; vast quantities of looted art were found and returned to the owners.

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The region is serviced by 4200 kilometers of roads used by six million vehicles per year.

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In 2007 the new 34 kilometers Lötschberg Base Tunnel was opened, which circumvents the 100 years older Lötschberg Tunnel.

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With the opening of the 57 kilometers Gotthard Base Tunnel on June 1, 2016 it bypasses the Gotthard Tunnel built in the 19th century and realizes the first flat route through the Alps.

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64–67 She then met Archibald Christie at a dance given by Lord and Lady Clifford at Ugbrooke, about 12 miles from Torquay.

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At 1350 meters above sea-level, it is the highest peak in the area; and it is a place of great sanctity to the local people for here.

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1963 X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program ( 107 kilometers (354,200 feet)).

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2003 Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34646418 miles distant.

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Saccharomyces yeast are known to produce these higher alcohols at temperatures above 75 °F .

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Its area is 148 sqkm .

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It ran 2 kilometers from Neuilly Bridge to the Bois de Boulogne.

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It featured a 4 kilometers concrete track with high-speed banked corners.

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One of the oldest existing purpose-built automobile racing circuits in the United States, still in use, is the 2 miles Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana.

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These races are often conducted over long distances, at least 1000 kilometers , and cars are driven by teams of two or more drivers, switching every few hours.

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Famous sports car races include the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Rolex 24 at Daytona, 24 Hours of Spa-Franchorchamps, the 12 Hours of Sebring, the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen, and the 1000 miles Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.

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Average street cars cover the 4 mile in 12 to 16 seconds, whereas a top fuel dragster takes 4.5 seconds or less, reaching speeds of up to 530 kmph .

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A top fuel car can be heard over 8 miles away and can generate a reading from 1.5 to 3.9 on the Richter scale.

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The former Aalborg municipality, including the island of Egholm, covered an area of 560 sqkm , with a total population of 192,353 (2005).

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At Aarhus's location, the Bay of Aarhus provides a natural harbour with a depth of 10 meters quite close to the shore.

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Several lakes extend west from the inner city as the landscape merges with the larger region of Søhøjlandet with heights exceeding 152 meters at Himmelbjerget between Skanderborg and Silkeborg.

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Aarhus has a population of 261,570 on 91 sqkm for a density of 2,874/km 2 (7,444/sq mi).

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In 2016 some 1000 people worked at Agro Food Park, spread across 50 companies and institutions and in August 2016 Agro Food Park management published plans to expand facilities from 92.000 m 2 to 325000 meters square .

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The City Hall (Aarhus Rådhus) from 1941 with an iconic 60 meters tower clad in marble, was designed by Arne Jacobsen and Erik Møller in a modern Functionalist style.