The Windmill Point Light in Vermont is the northernmost lighthouse on Lake Champlain. Extinguished for seventy years, it was reactivated in 2002 to replace...
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Windmill Point Light may refer to: Windmill Point Light (Michigan), in Detroit, Michigan Windmill Point Light (Vermont), in Lake Champlain Windmill Point...
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Hull. Windmill Point Light, the name of several lighthouses: Windmill Point Light (Michigan), in Detroit, Michigan Windmill Point Light (Vermont), in Lake...
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same lines as the Windmill Point and Isle La Motte lights, which they constructed in the same period. The light sat on a small point due east of the ruins...
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This light, together with the Windmill Point Light, forms something of a range marking the center of the channel in this section of the lake. A light was...
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The Eclipse windmill was one of the more successful designs of windmill used to pump water in the nineteenth century United States. It was invented by...
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the wind. Wind-powered machines used to grind grain and pump water — the windmill and wind pump — were developed in what is now Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan...
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Archived from the original on 2017-05-01. "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Vermont". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived...
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69 Windmill Street, Millers Point is a heritage-listed residence and former retail building located at 69 Windmill Street, in the inner city Sydney suburb...
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Wind turbine (redirect from Propeller windmill)
of German crusaders taking their windmill-making skills to Syria around 1190. By the 14th century, Dutch windmills were in use to drain areas of the...
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(1991). "Machias Seal Island: A Geopolitical Anomaly". University of Vermont – via SIUE. Abstract of masters thesis on topic Canadian Department of...
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Sydney Observatory (category Windmills in Australia)
Wales, Australia, a windmill was built on the hill above the first settlement. Within ten years the windmill had deteriorated to the point of being useless;...
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provisions were wanting, and the mills completely at a stand. They have no windmills, so that no corn could be ground. Vessels have been sent from Pernambuco...
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Samuel Morey (category People from Fairlee, Vermont)
lumber business in Orford and Fairlee, Vermont. He died in 1843, and was buried in Orford. Lake Morey in Vermont is named in his honor. Morey's first patent...
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Historical Commission". September 22, 2018. "The Story of the Farris Windmill-Oldest Windmill No Longer on Cape Cod". Retrieved November 12, 2020. Guide to New...
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fairgrounds with his rented Sikorsky S-51 helicopter, dubbed "The Johnson City Windmill". He raised money to flood the state with campaign circulars and won over...
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first Republican to win the presidency without carrying either Illinois or Vermont, with Donald Trump repeating the feat in 2016. Illinois has not elected...
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David E. Sellers (category People from Warren, Vermont)
September 7, 1938)[citation needed] is an American architect, based in Vermont. He is known for using an improvisational approach to modern architecture...
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metallurgy were made in Song China, as well as the introduction of the windmill to China during the thirteenth century. These advances, along with the...
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not wished themselves unwed for a year. Bocking Windmill, technically a part of Bocking, the windmill overlooks the countryside at the north end of Braintree...
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2006. Tilting at Windmills History & Meaning of a Proverbial Allusion to Cervantes Don Quixote. Burlington: University of Vermont. ISBN 978-0-9770731-3-9...
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These towers have very small cabs, as the towers are based on Aermotor windmill towers. These towers are often found in the U.S. Midwest and South, but...
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Settler's Lament" 4522. "The Honest Irish Lad" 4523. "The Battle of the Windmill" 4524. "The Battle of Queenston Heights" 4525. "Saskatchewan" 4526. "The...
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Island was supplied by three artesian wells, whose water was pumped by a windmill to a 10 short tons (9.1 t) storage tank that sat on top of a 50-foot (15 m)...
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of Viking origin, although most experts believe it was a Colonial-era windmill. On May 29, 2014, Governor Lincoln D. Chafee announced that Rhode Island...
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its east, Connecticut and Rhode Island to its south, New Hampshire and Vermont to its north, and New York to its west. Massachusetts is the sixth-smallest...
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from the Harbour, the North Shore and parts of Windmill Street at the rear. 22–32 Argyle Place, Millers Point was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage...
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(windmill) to supply a portion of the island's electric power. Paul Cuffe (1759–1817) In 1864, some members of The West Island Club in Sakonnet Point,...
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able to negotiate leases for Bligh House (later Clydebank) and houses in Windmill Street for various medical societies. From 1961 until 1990 it was leased...
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construction from 300 BC to 476 AD. 650 BC: Crossbow in China. 650 BC: Windmills in Persia. 600 BC: Coins in Phoenicia (Modern Lebanon) or Lydia. Late...
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