Aug
25

Water jet

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Water jet has several meanings including :

a jet of water under pressure, like in an ornamental fountain

Pump-jet, a marine propulsion mechanism for jetskis and other types of boats

Water jet cutter, a tool for cutting and the machining of engineering materials

Water jet (recreation), a personal-use water cannon that can be turned to spray […]

Aug
25

Lake Chalco

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Lake Chalco was an endorheic lake formerly located in the Valley of Mexico and was important for human development in central Mexico. The lake was named after the city of Chalco on its eastern shore.

Lake Chalco and the other Mexican great lakes (the brackish lakes Texcoco, Zumpango and Xaltocan and the freshwater Xochimilco) formed […]

Aug
24

Plinth

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A plinth is the base of a cabinet in cabinet making.

It is also a word used in the popular internet game word whomp.

In architecture, a plinth is the platform or base upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument, or structure rests.

Notes

See also

Set-off (architecture)

Socle (architecture)

Aug
23

Branch water may refer to:

Water from a stream (a term primarily used in the southern United States)

Addition of plain water rather than soda water to a mixed drink (for example, “Bourbon and branch” refers to Bourbon whiskey with plain water)

Aug
23

Mount Druitt Hospital is a 200 bed hospital in the Mount Druitt suburb of Blacktown (in Western Sydney), Australia. It was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in October 1982.

Both Mt Druitt Hospital and the near-by Blacktown Hospital operate under one administration, the Blacktown/Mt Druitt Health (BMDH). BMDH is a unit of the Sydney […]

Aug
22

Retinite

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Retinite a general name applied to various resins, particularly those from beds of brown coal, which are near amber in appearance, but contain little or no succinic acid. It may conveniently serve as a generic name, since no two independent occurrences prove to be alike, and the indefinite multiplication of names, no one of them […]

Aug
22

Water table

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The water table or phreatic surface is the surface where the water pressure is equal to atmospheric pressure.

A sustainable amount of water within a unit of sediment or rock, below the water table, in the phreatic zone is called an aquifer. The ability of the aquifer to store groundwater is dependent on the primary […]

Aug
21

Stronghold is an unincorporated community in Modoc County, California near the Oregon border.

Its coordinates are at 4,036 feet elevation. Probably named for Captain Jack’s Stronghold at the nearby Lava Beds National Monument.

External links

Aug
20

Idaho Maximum Security Institution (IMSI) is a high-security state prison near Boise, Idaho, USA. It opened in November 1989 to confine Idaho’s most violent offenders.

The compound is located within a double perimeter fence reinforced with razor wire, an electronic detection system and a 24-hour armed perimeter patrol. The offender population is comprised of a large […]

Aug
18

The Lambeth Group, also known as the Reading Beds and the Woolwich Beds, is a geological formation comprising a complex of vertically and laterally varying gravels, sands, silts and clays deposited between 56-55 million years before present during the Lower Eocene Epoch. It is found throughout the London Basin with a thickness between 10m […]

Aug
17

The United Counties Football League Premier Division is at Level 9 (Step 5) of the National League System, feeding in to the Southern League Division One Midlands. It was known as the Northamptonshire League until 1934. During the current (2007-08) season, there are 21 clubs in this Division. The member clubs take part in Cup […]

Aug
17

Teleoceras

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Teleoceras is an extinct genus of grazing rhinoceros that lived in North America during the Miocene epoch, which ended about 5.3 million years ago, all the way to the early Pliocene epoch. Teleoceras had shorter legs than modern rhinos, and a barrel chest, making its build more like that of a hippopotamus than a […]

Aug
16

Trundle bed

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Trundle beds (or truckle beds) are usually considered a pair of beds, one slightly smaller than a twin bed that is on rollers or casters so that it may be put beneath the upper twin bed for storage. Trundle beds allow for two separate beds to be available when necessary, but do not require […]

Aug
15

Trundle bed

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Trundle beds (or truckle beds) are usually considered a pair of beds, one slightly smaller than a twin bed that is on rollers or casters so that it may be put beneath the upper twin bed for storage. Trundle beds allow for two separate beds to be available when necessary, but do not require […]

Aug
15

Summerlin Hospital for-profit hospital is owned and operated by Universal Health Services and is the only hospital in Summerlin, Clark County, Nevada. The hospital, which provides 281 beds, is on Town Center Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada and is located in the Summerlin village of The Crossings.

The hospital also contains a 17 bed neonatal intensive care […]

Aug
14

North Vista Hospital for-profit hospital is owned and operated by IASIS Healthcare and is the only hospital in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The hospital provides 185 beds.

History
The hospital opened in 1959 as Lake Mead Hospital Medical Center with 33 beds.

Purchased in 2003 by IASIS Healthcare.

Services

Provides the only geriatric psychiatry beds in Las Vegas.

Accreditation

Joint Commission on […]

Aug
14

The Leicester Royal Infirmary is a large National Health Service hospital in Leicester, England. It is located to the south-west of the city centre. It has Leicester’s accident and emergency department, and is part of the University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust.

The hospital was originally founded in 1771 by Reverend William Watts hosting 40 […]

Aug
13

Salt water

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Salt water may refer to:

Saline water, water containing dissolved salts

Brine, water saturated or nearly saturated with salt

Brackish water, water that is saltier than fresh water, but not as salty as seawater

Seawater, water from a sea

Saline (medicine), a solution of sodium chloride in sterile water

Saltwater, a song by Chicane

Saltwater, a song by Julian Lennon

Saltwater, an alias […]

Aug
13

Krishna Rajendra Hospital (K R Hospital) and Cheluvamba Hospitals are both tertiary referral centers and teaching hospitals attached to the Mysore Medical College in Mysore, Karnataka, India.

K R Hospital has a total bed capacity of around 1330 beds which includes 335 beds in general medicine, 313 in general surgery and about 500 in other specialties […]

Aug
12

Stronghold is an unincorporated community in Modoc County, California near the Oregon border.

Its coordinates are at 4,036 feet elevation. Probably named for Captain Jack’s Stronghold at the nearby Lava Beds National Monument.

External links

Aug
12

Teleoceras

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Teleoceras is an extinct genus of grazing rhinoceros that lived in North America during the Miocene epoch, which ended about 5.3 million years ago, all the way to the early Pliocene epoch. Teleoceras had shorter legs than modern rhinos, and a barrel chest, making its build more like that of a hippopotamus than a […]

Aug
11

Cains River

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The Cains River is a Canadian river in New Brunswick.

The Cains River has its origins in the “Bantalor Game Refuge” in the eastern part of York County, near the boundary with Sunbury County. Generally flowing northeast through heavy forests, the Cains River joins the Southwest Miramichi River at Howard, NB. The Southwest Miramichi River then […]

Aug
11

Lazy bed

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Lazy bed is a method of arable cultivation. Rather like cord rig cultivation, parallel banks of ridge and furrow are dug by spade although lazy beds have banks that are bigger, up to 2.5m in width, with narrow drainage channels between them.

Although it is largely extinct, it is still to be found in parts of […]

Aug
10

Water therapy is the use of water to improve health.

According to alternative medicine advocates, one form of water therapy is the consuming of a gutful of water upon waking in order to “cleanse the bowel”. A litre to a litre and half is the common amount ingested. This water therapy, also known as Indian or […]

Aug
10

Infant bed

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An infant bed (commonly referred to as a cot in British English and a crib, cradle or stock) is a small bed specifically for infants, generally up to three years old.

Infant beds are typically used as a bed for a baby after it is no longer safe to leave them in a bassinet. Infant beds […]