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Halfway Rock Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on a barren ledge in Casco Bay, Maine. The lighthouse tower, which has a height of 76 feet (23 m), and the attached ex-boathouse are all that remain, as the other buildings have been taken away in storms. The name "Halfway Rock" comes from the position of the rock which is halfway between Cape Elizabeth and Cape Small, M...
The halfway station served the traveling public between Moab and the railroad at Thompson. The first passenger train went through Thompson to Salt Lake in April of 1883. The railroad was 35 miles from Moab. The halfway house was a place to eat a meal, change horses, rest a spell, or sleep overnight. Since the trip from Moab to the train took 8 hours, travelers stopped...
Halicarnassus was an ancient Greek city at what is now Bodrum in Turkey. It was located in southwest Caria on a picturesque, advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf. The city was famous for the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, also known simply as the Tomb of Mausolus, whose name provided the origin of the word "mausoleum". The mausoleum, built from 353 to 350 BC, ranked as ...
Fort George (named after King George II of Great Britain) is a National Historic Site of Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and was established during Father Le Loutre's War to protect the protestant settlers against raids by the French, Acadians, and Wabanaki Confederacy (primary the Mi'kmaq).
A series of four different defensive fortifications have occupied the ...
The Halifax Public Gardens are Victorian era public gardens formally established in 1867, the year of Canadian Confederation. The gardens are located in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia on the Halifax Peninsula near the popular shopping district of Spring Garden Road and opposite Victoria Park. The gardens were designated a National Historic Site of Cana...
The Halle Gate (French:Porte de Hal, Dutch:Hallepoort) is a medieval fortified city gate and the last vestige of the second walls of Brussels, Belgium. Built in 1381 and heavily restored in the 19th century by the architect Henri Beyaert, it is now a museum, part of the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH).
The Halle Gate is located on Boulevard du Midi/Zuidlaan be...
Halley Research Station, run by the British Antarctic Survey, is located on the Brunt Ice Shelf floating on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. It is a British research facility dedicated to the study of the Earth's atmosphere. Measurements from Halley led to the discovery of the ozone hole in 1985.
Temperatures at Halley rarely rise above 0°C although temperature...
Halley Research Station, run by the British Antarctic Survey, is located on the Brunt Ice Shelf floating on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. It is a British research facility dedicated to the study of the Earth's atmosphere. Measurements from Halley led to the discovery of the ozone hole in 1985.
There have been five Halley bases built so far. The first four were all bu...
Halley's Comet or Comet Halley officially designated 1P/Halley, is the best-known of the short-period comets and is visible from Earth every 75–76 years. Halley is the only short-period comet that is clearly visible to the naked eye from Earth, and thus the only naked-eye comet that might appear twice in a human lifetime. Other naked-eye comets may be brighter a...
The Eta Aquariids are a meteor shower associated with Halley's Comet. The shower is visible from mid April to late May each year with peak activity on or around May 6.
Although this shower is not as spectacular as the Leonids, it is not an ordinary event. The Eta Aquariids get their name because their radiant appears to lie in the constellation Aquarius, near one of t...
In 1677 English astronomer Edmond Halley visited St Helena Island to observe the transit of the planet Mercury. His base camp was in this location at Hutts Gate.
The Hallgrímskirkja is a Lutheran (Church of Iceland) parish church in Reykjavík, Iceland. At 74.5 metres (244 ft), it is the largest church in Iceland and the sixth tallest architectural structure in Iceland after Longwave radio mast Hellissandur, the radio masts of US Navy at Grindavík, Eiðar longwave transmitter and Smáratorg tower. ...
Halloran Springs is located on Interstate 15 between Baker, California and Las Vegas, Nevada approximately 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Baker. As of the end of year 2014, the human population of Halloran Springs is one. In 2017, there does not appear to be any more residents and Halloran Springs, along with nearby Halloran Summit, can be classified as ghost towns.
Halls Crossing is on the western edge of San Juan County, Utah, United States. The population was six at the 2010 Census. State Route 276 crosses the Colorado River at Halls Crossing using the Charles Hall Ferry.
Only 8-10 people live here year-round. The rest, up to 40 are seasonal employees during the spring and summer months. Demographics depend on the seasonal emp...
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