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2. SS Edmund Fitzgerald - Wikipedia

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   SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there.

3. Spark-gap transmitter - Wikipedia

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   A second type of spark gap that had a similar quenching effect [15] was the "rotary gap", invented by Tesla in 1896 [92] [93] and applied to radio transmitters by Reginald Fessenden and others. [ 17 ] : p.359–362 [ 79 ] It consisted of multiple electrodes equally spaced around a disk rotor spun at high speed by a motor, which created sparks ...

4. Interstate Highway System - Wikipedia

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   The Pershing Map FDR's hand-drawn map from 1938. The United States government's efforts to construct a national network of highways began on an ad hoc basis with the passage of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, which provided $75 million over a five-year period for matching funds to the states for the construction and improvement of highways. [8]

5. List of ISO 639 language codes - Wikipedia

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   List of ISO 639 language codes. ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [2] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3, defines the three-letter codes, aiming to ...

6. Gap, Hautes-Alpes - Wikipedia

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   Gap, Hautes-Alpes. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Gap (French pronunciation: [ɡap], Occitan: [ˈɡap]) is the prefecture of the department of Hautes-Alpes, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southeastern France.

7. United States Merchant Marine - Wikipedia

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   The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United ...