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  2. L-plan castle - Wikipedia

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    An L-plan castle is a castle or tower house in the shape of an L, typically built from the 13th to the 17th century. This design is found quite frequently in Scotland, but is also seen in England, Ireland, Romania, Sardinia, and other locations. The evolution of its design was an expansion of the blockhouse or simple square tower from the Early ...

  3. L'Hospitalet de l'Infant - Wikipedia

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    L'Hospitalet de l'Infant, Catalonia, Spain is coastal suburb of Tarragona, inside the municipality of Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant and southwest of Baix Camp . The town center is on a rocky promontory flanked by an extensive beach ("L'Arenal") and crossed by the Llastres River. Tourism is one of the main economic activities of the town ...

  4. Louvre - Wikipedia

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    The Louvre (English: / ˈ l uː v (r ə)/ LOOV(-rə)), or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ⓘ), is a national art museum in Paris, France.It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district or ward) and home to some of the most canonical works of Western art, including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory.

  5. Tre Cime di Lavaredo - Wikipedia

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    The Tre Cime di Lavaredo ( Italian for 'Three Peaks of Lavaredo'; pronounced [ˌtre tˈtʃiːme di lavaˈreːdo] ), also called the Drei Zinnen ( German for 'Three Merlons '); pronounced [ˌdʁaɪ ˈtsɪnən] ⓘ ), are three distinctive battlement -like peaks, in the Sexten Dolomites of northeastern Italy. They are one of the best-known ...

  6. Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Developed in the 1920s, Le Corbusier’s ‘Five Points of Modern Architecture’ (French: Cinq points de l'architecture moderne) are a set of architectural ideologies and classifications that are rationalized across five core components: [3] Pilotis – a grid of slim reinforced concrete pylons that assume the structural weight of a building.

  7. Global Positioning System - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Department of Defense is required by law to "maintain a Standard Positioning Service (as defined in the federal radio navigation plan and the standard positioning service signal specification) that will be available on a continuous, worldwide basis" and "develop measures to prevent hostile use of GPS and its augmentations without ...

  8. Orders of magnitude (molar concentration) - Wikipedia

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    QM. quettamolar. 11.04 g/l is the concentration of sodium ions in water in other words. That’s 1.09% sodium ion! The concentration of hydronium ions in pire water is 1.9 micrograms per liter. That’s 1.9 parts per billion of hydronium. The normal range for hemoglobin molecules is 254.36 grams per liter or 20.27% hemoglobin.

  9. Ceres (dwarf planet) - Wikipedia

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    Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.It was the first known asteroid, discovered on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Sicily, and announced as a new planet.