His name, or so I'm told, is Willy, a five foot high male American White Pelican.
Built in 1837, the 24-foot high dam was used to accommodate barges and power sawmills.
The margin boost was mainly attributable to strong sales growth, which kept revenue per square foot high.
But few could have imagined a 48-foot high wave like the one that hit on March 11.
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The temblor did generate a tsunami just under one foot high, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
This helps to keep revenue per square foot high and avoids cannibalization that can occur with over expansion.
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The rover will head toward Mount Sharp, a 18, 000-foot high mountain about 7.5 miles south of where it landed.
We went to the left-hand side of the ring where there was a zip-like line running up the eight-foot high construction.
The other major technological setup is a video wall, with images shown on a partial recreation of a grass approximately 20-foot high.
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The Grassi is dominated by a Jeff Koons sculpture of a 10-foot high dog made of glistening red metal in a high finish.
While attempting to regain control, his aircraft collided with a 20 foot high pole that sliced off about three feet of his right wing.
They cite towns such as Seaside Park, which had 20-foot high dunes and was far less damaged during Sandy than nearby Seaside Heights and Mantoloking.
Less than four feet long and two feet tall, Gemini-Scout is nimble enough to navigate around tight corners and over safety hatches a foot high.
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The 5, 676-foot high Cleveland is about 350 miles to the southwest.
There, among 12-foot high stacks of old oscilloscopes and signal-conditioning gear, Williams points to a clunky black metal box about the size of an underwear drawer.
The beehive wearers flout this convention by piling their locks straight upward from the forehead, sometimes nearly a foot high, with their veils perched precariously on top.
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In 1994 both he and a female model were arrested in New York when she posed nude on top of an eight-foot high replica Christmas tree in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center.
Precision in landing was important because NASA chose a relatively tight area for Curiosity's arrival: The Gale Crater, which contains an 18, 000-foot high mountain about 7.5 miles south of the landing site.
The most elaborate, called the Leap of Faith, is a steep drop down the side of the 60-foot high Mayan Temple, and then a fast slide through a clear acrylic tunnel running through a lagoon filled with sharks.
Set in the remote, post-apocalyptic desert landscape that is Landers, California, the 38-foot high white dome was built in the 1950s as a research facility by George Van Tassel, a test pilot and aeronautical engineer for Howard Hughes.
The effects of depressurization on internal structures is not intuitively obvious to non-engineers, but a 20 foot wide by 20 foot high wall that sees a 1.2 psi rapid pressure decrease feels a load of about 70, 000 lbs of horizontal force.
It is a lush ballroom with a fresco ceiling and plaster frieze and large arched and curtained windows that, on Patriots Day, are blocked by a 6-foot high, 30-foot long tracking board that updates the media on the progress of the race.
Summer visitors see grazing reindeer and Sami camps, and in winter a special bus follows a snow plow up the final eight miles to reach the 1, 000-foot high plateau where, bracing against the winds, you get to stand beside the iconic North Cape globe for photographic proof positive that you have literally stood at the top of the world.
Crews erected a 16-foot-high, 75-foot-long fence around the property to prepare for a controlled burn of the entire home.
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The London Eye opened in 2000 and started the trend, which continues with the High Roller and with attractions like the smaller 360 Pensacola Beach, a 200-foot-high observation wheel overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, which just opened in early July.
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As expected, the living spaces are grand with 23-foot-high ceilings, large windows and architectural details.
At the other end are 14-foot-high monsters that reflect their origins in the Brazilian jungle.
As a mobile laboratory, Curiosity will focus first on Gale Crater's 14, 700-foot-high central peak.
It's served in a dining room with 40-foot-high ceilings and six massive double-sided granite fireplaces.
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