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    The Wall of Wind (WoW) is a large scale wind engineering testing facility at Florida International University. The original version, with two fans, was...
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    Wall of China (traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng, literally "ten thousand li long wall") is a series of fortifications...
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    Rozenburg wind wall in Rozenburg, Netherlands, is a wall built to block wind from entering the Calandkanaal, and ease the passage of large cargo ships...
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    Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens...
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    curtain wall façade carries no structural load beyond its own dead load weight, it can be made of lightweight materials. The wall transfers lateral wind loads...
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    Earth, Wind & Fire (abbreviated as EW&F or EWF) is an American band whose music spans the genres of jazz, R&B, soul, funk, disco, pop, Latin, and Afro-pop...
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  • Earth, Wind & Fire released as a single on November 18, 1978, by ARC/Columbia Records. Initially included as a track for The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire...
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    a wall of wind hit us in the back. The Pride heeled over in a matter of seconds. The 70-knot (130 km/h) wind pushed a 20-foot (6.1 m) high wall of water...
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  • Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) classifies hurricanes—which in the Western Hemisphere are tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions...
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    Parapet (redirect from Parapet wall)
    A parapet is a barrier that is an upward extension of a wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately...
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    Germans successfully defected by a variety of methods: digging long tunnels under the Wall, waiting for favorable winds and taking a hot air balloon, sliding...
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  • procedure for assessing exposure of walls to wind driven rain to guide the installation of insulation. A significant number of properties that had the insulation...
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  • his trip for the sounds of wind, and ran around a hall with a canvas bag up to record the sandstorm. For the scene where WALL·E flees from falling shopping...
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    A shear wall is an element of a structurally engineered system that is designed to resist in-plane lateral forces, typically wind and seismic loads. A...
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  • Research; and the Laboratory for Wind Engineering Research, as well as the FIU Wall of Wind. The 12-fan Wall of Wind (WoW) at FIU is the largest and most...
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  • anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2005, viewers of the German television network ZDF chose this song as the song of the century. "Wind of Change"...
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    A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. As of 2020[update], hundreds of thousands of large turbines...
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    Wrigley Field's features include its ivy-covered brick outfield wall, distinctive wind patterns off Lake Michigan, the red marquee over the main entrance...
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  • retailer Wall of Wind, a wind engineering testing facility in Florida, United States WOW counties, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties of Wisconsin...
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  • The dusty wind settles quickly. The sniper sees Matthews and fires, injuring Matthews in the left shoulder as he crawled towards the wall, but a second...
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    Wind chimes are a type of percussion instrument constructed from suspended tubes, rods, bells, or other objects that are often made of metal or wood. The...
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  • fatty acids become the predominant source of energy. The delay between "hitting the wall" and "second wind" occurring, has to do with the slow speed at...
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    A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) is a color photograph made by Jeff Wall in 1993. The large photograph is a rework version of the woodcut Yejiri Station...
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  • The American animated television miniseries Over the Garden Wall features a cast of fictional characters created by Patrick McHale. The series revolves...
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    Trump wall, commonly referred to as "The Wall", is an expansion of the Mexico–United States barrier that started during the U.S. presidency of Donald...
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    Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian photographer. He is artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs...
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  • Under a Violet Moon "Gone with the Wind", a song by Robin Gibb from the 1985 album Walls Have Eyes "Gone with the Wind", a song by Techno Twins from the...
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    wind. The mathematical basis for this material efficiency involves the calculation of the wall's arc length. Modeled after a sine wave, the length of...
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  • "D'oh-in' in the Wind" is the sixth episode of the tenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on Fox in the...
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    push a wall outwards, which are forces that arise from vaulted ceilings of stone and from wind-loading on roofs. The namesake and defining feature of a flying...
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