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    Lay Dam is a hydroelectric power dam on the Coosa River in Chilton County and Coosa County, near Clanton, Alabama. The concrete run-of-the-river gravity...
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  • Breton lai or simply lay, a form of medieval French and English romance literature Heroic lay, a Germanic work of narrative verse Lay Dam, Alabama, United...
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    River and the Gulf of Mexico. Through its building of dams on the Coosa in the early 20th century — Lay, Mitchell and Jordan — Alabama Power began to pioneer...
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    Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed...
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    Millennium Dam and sometimes referred to as the Hidase Dam (Amharic: ሕዳሴ ግድብ, romanized: Hidāsē Gidib, Oromo: Hidha Hidāsē), is a gravity dam on the Blue...
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    Road – Clanton, Lake Mitchell 211.876 340.981 212 SR 145 (Lay Dam Road) – Clanton, Lay Dam Peach Tower exit ​ 219.256 352.858 219 Jemison, Thorsby Shelby...
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  • lists the dams and reservoirs in Alabama. In 2015, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimated that the state has about 2,271 dams. List of dam removals...
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    upriver from Elwha Dam. Both dams lay within Olympic National Park, established in 1938. The National Park Service demolished Glines Canyon Dam in 2014 as part...
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  • from the original on 19 July 2009, retrieved 23 July 2010 Tharpe, Bill. "Lay Dam and Lake" Archived 30 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine. encyclopediaofalabama...
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  • Chilton County School District Address 1705 Lay Dam Rd Clanton , Alabama, 35045 United States Coordinates 32°52′07″N 86°37′21″W / 32.868700°N 86.622451°W...
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    The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California...
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    decade in lawsuits over mosquito-borne illnesses in the vicinity of its Lay Dam hydroelectric reservoir. The coal-fired steam plant was closed in April...
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    75.0630167°W / 41.0210833; -75.0630167 A 1950s proposal to construct a dam near Tocks Island across the Delaware River was met with considerable controversy...
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  • The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic docudrama war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave, that was directed by Michael Anderson. Adapted by...
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    Amsterdam (redirect from Amster Dam)
    Amsterdam (/ˈæmstərdæm/ AM-stər-dam, UK also /ˌæmstərˈdæm/ AM-stər-DAM, Dutch: [ˌɑmstərˈdɑm] ; lit. 'Dam in the Amstel') is the capital and most populated...
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    sea. The 21-foot (6.4 m) Milltown Dam lay the junction of the Clark Fork River and Blackfoot River in Montana. The dam held very high levels of toxic sediments...
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    The Fort Peck Dam is the highest of six major dams along the Missouri River, located in northeast Montana in the United States, near Glasgow, and adjacent...
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  • Diamer-Bhasha Dam is a concreted-filled gravity dam, in the preliminary stages of construction, on the River Indus between Kohistan district in Khyber...
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    formally inaugurated by laying foundation stones on 28 February 1945 by Nawab Azam Jah, the Prince of Berar, on the left side of the dam and by the Baron Sir...
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    Parban Dam Project (परवन परियोजना) is under construction dam project on the river Parban in Jhalawar District of Rajasthan. Dam construction started in...
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    Seven Oaks Dam is a 550-foot (170 m) high earth and rock fill embankment dam across the Santa Ana River in the San Bernardino Mountains, about 4 miles...
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    adjacent cemetery. The original site was submerged under Lay Lake with the 1914 construction of the Lay Dam 14 miles downstream. The headstones from the military...
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    of the Driekoppies and Maguga Dams. As the former benefited South Africa exclusively (though the resulting reservoir lay partially in Eswatini), South...
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    Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019 when a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine suffered a catastrophic failure. The dam, located...
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    decision to build the dam in the 1990s, during the Cavaco Silva and António Guterres governments. Aldeia da Luz, a small village that lay in the projected...
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  • Iran–Turkmenistan Friendship Dam R. Raslan/R. Milhem/H. Said (February 6, 2011). "Otri, Erdogan Lay Cornerstone of Friendship Dam". Syrian Arab News Agency...
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    Coosa River portion of its range since the construction of the Lay Dam and Logan Martin Dam, and recent survey efforts have failed to locate any surviving...
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    Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page...
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    Sarma, Ch R. S. (8 June 2017). "AP CM Chandrababu Naidu lays foundation stone for Polavaram coffer dam". @businessline. Retrieved 24 February 2020. Polavaram...
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    October 1960), known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme (French: [vɑ̃ dam], Flemish: [vɑn ˈdɑmə]), is a Belgian martial artist and actor. Born and...
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