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#76
#76
McDad said:
Alaska is home to the four largest cities in America. The largest, Sitka, is roughly 9 times larger than NYC.

What is the largest US city by area?


The top ten largest cities by area are:
  • Sitka, AK (2,870.3 mi²)
  • Juneau, AK (2,701.9 mi²)
  • Wrangell, AK (2,542.5 mi²)
  • Anchorage, AK (1,704.7 mi²)
  • Jacksonville, FL (747 mi²)
  • Anaconda, MT (735.6 mi²)
  • Butte, MT (716.2 mi²)
  • Oklahoma City, OK (607 mi²)
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Butte is big.
 
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McDad said:
Alaska is home to the four largest cities in America. The largest, Sitka, is roughly 9 times larger than NYC.

What is the largest US city by area?


The top ten largest cities by area are:
  • Sitka, AK (2,870.3 mi²)
  • Juneau, AK (2,701.9 mi²)
  • Wrangell, AK (2,542.5 mi²)
  • Anchorage, AK (1,704.7 mi²)
  • Jacksonville, FL (747 mi²)
  • Anaconda, MT (735.6 mi²)
  • Butte, MT (716.2 mi²)
  • Oklahoma City, OK (607 mi²)
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Anaconda only likes big Buttes...
 
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05_never_again said:
Third highest? It's actually Truist Park in Atlanta at about 1000 feet. It doesn't seem like it would be but Atlanta (especially northern suburbs) is technically the foothills of the Appalachians,
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Lord, don't tell the Roswell, Alpharetta and Ball Ground citizenry that and expect to live.
 
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YankeeVol said:
Everything is bigger in TX.....except Alaska, which is over 2x bigger

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And they mocked Seward.
 
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Sleep paralysis can often be the result of moving out of, or back from, a journey to another dimension.
 
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A mistake in an obituary is the reason behind the Nobel Prizes.

Alfred Nobel had loathed war all his life and was stunned when his obituary referred to him as a "merchant of death." He vowed that he would not be remembered as such! So he decided to leave his immense fortune to foster science, literature and peace. The Nobel Prizes were born! All because a journalist did not check his facts.

Nobel wasn't in the best of health but he knew he wasn't dead. Yet, there was his obituary, prominently featured in the morning newspaper. To make matters worse, not only had the newspaper killed him off prematurely, it had described him as a man who "became rich by finding a way to kill more people faster than ever before.
The French press service that provided the story had made a mistake. It was actually Alfred's older brother Ludvig who had died while vacationing in Cannes but a reporter had gotten the brothers mixed up.

Alfred was deeply disturbed by this chance preview of how the world would remember him. Yes, he had invented dynamite and gelignite, the most powerful explosives known at the time, but he had always envisioned that they would be used to the benefit of mankind. Dynamite would change the world. It would allow the Panama Canal to be built, but contrary to Nobel's hopes, would also take warfare to a new level.
 
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Dwight Eisenhower wanted to land military planes on the interstate.

Congress passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 creating federal funds for interstate highway construction. As the IHS developed so did its ability to support national defense. For example, throughout the system, mile-long stretches of concrete pavement double as emergency landing strips for military aircraft.
 
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A stolen bride responsible for Reelfoot lake.

In the winter of 1811-1812, the 150-mile long New Madrid fault line produced a series of four earthquakes so powerful that the Mississippi River was said to have flowed backward for 10-24 hours. This intensity created Reelfoot Lake, and shocks were felt as far away as Quebec. They remain the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the eastern United States. The lake now encompasses 15,000 acres, with an average depth of 5.5 feet (the maximum depth is 18 feet).

The lake's name comes from a legend about a 19th-century Chickasaw Indian chief who was called Reelfoot because he had a deformed foot. His defiance of the Great Spirit by stealing a bride from a neighboring tribe supposedly caused the earthquake that formed the lake.
 
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McDad said:
Dwight Eisenhower wanted to land military planes on the interstate.

Congress passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 creating federal funds for interstate highway construction. As the IHS developed so did its ability to support national defense. For example, throughout the system, mile-long stretches of concrete pavement double as emergency landing strips for military aircraft.
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There are supposedly markers for these stretches, but I’ve never been able to pick them out.
 
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Here’s a question for you: what’s the tallest mountain on Earth? Although most people might say Nepal’s Mount Everest, you could also answer Mauna Kea in Hawaii. With 16,400 feet of height submerged underwater, the volcano actually measures a whole 33,464 feet top-to-bottom – taller than Mount Everest's 29,032 feet.
 
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McDad said:
Here’s a question for you: what’s the tallest mountain on Earth? Although most people might say Nepal’s Mount Everest, you could also answer Mauna Kea in Hawaii. With 16,400 feet of height submerged underwater, the volcano actually measures a whole 33,464 feet top-to-bottom – taller than Mount Everest's 29,032 feet.
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When I lived in Hawai’i (late 60’s-early 70’s), Mauna Kea once had the record US snowfall on July 4.

Mauna Kea = “white mountain”, for the snowcap.
Mauna Loa = “long mountain”
 
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Neutron stars are formed when a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses. One teaspoon of neutron star weighs 10 million tons. For comparison, the Empire State building is composed of 200,000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone and granite, 10 million bricks and 730 tons of aluminum and stainless steel and weighs 365,000 tons.

One teaspoon of neutron star weighs about the same as 27 and a half Empire State buildings.
 
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Ebenezer Place in Wick, Scotland holds the world record for the shortest street at 6ft 9 inches in length (2.06 m).

The longest road in the world is the Pan American Highway which begins in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and stretches all the way down to Ushuaia, Argentina. All in all, the road covers 30,000 km (19,000 miles)
 
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McDad said:
A stolen bride responsible for Reelfoot lake.

In the winter of 1811-1812, the 150-mile long New Madrid fault line produced a series of four earthquakes so powerful that the Mississippi River was said to have flowed backward for 10-24 hours. This intensity created Reelfoot Lake, and shocks were felt as far away as Quebec. They remain the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the eastern United States. The lake now encompasses 15,000 acres, with an average depth of 5.5 feet (the maximum depth is 18 feet).

The lake's name comes from a legend about a 19th-century Chickasaw Indian chief who was called Reelfoot because he had a deformed foot. His defiance of the Great Spirit by stealing a bride from a neighboring tribe supposedly caused the earthquake that formed the lake.
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Good book about the earthquakes.

 
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