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    The Francis E. Walter Dam is an embankment dam located in Bear Creek Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, U.S. Constructed in 1961 by the United States...
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    initially southwest through southern Lackawanna County and then through Francis E. Walter Dam. Near White Haven, it turns south, following a zigzag whitewater...
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    fishing, kayaking, and boating. In 1963, the dam was renamed after a United States Congressman (Francis E. Walter). In 1993, Bear Creek Village broke away...
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  • Britain Few (album), fifth studio album by rock band He is Legend Francis E. Walter Dam, a dam, recreational area, and disc golf course in Pennsylvania French...
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  • Bear Creek Dam (North Carolina), owned by Duke Energy Bear Creek Dam, original name of the Francis E. Walter Dam in Pennsylvania Bear Creek Dam, Pennsylvania...
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  • Elizabeth Locks & Dam, Monongahela River, USACE Emsworth Locks and Dams, Ohio River, USACE Francis E. Walter Dam, Francis E. Walter Reservoir, USACE George...
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    a plethora of recreational activities. Water released from the Francis E. Walter Dam makes the river deep enough for boating. White water rafting is...
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    community of Stoddartsville, 6.1 miles (9.8 km) upstream of the Francis E. Walter Dam. List of rivers of Pennsylvania U.S. Geological Survey. National...
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  • Bluestone Lake, West Virginia; (3) East Lynn Lake, West Virginia; (4) Francis E. Walter Dam, Pennsylvania; (5) Jennings Randolph Lake, Maryland and West Virginia;...
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    Gorge State Park is just below the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Francis E. Walter Dam, in Bear Creek Township on the right bank (Luzerne County) and Kidder...
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    A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water...
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    Rihand Dam also known as Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar, is the second largest dam of India by volume (storage) next only to Indirasagar Dam of Madhya Pradesh...
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    Dam", con't., by Walter E. Mair, Popular Science Monthly, February 1936, pp. 11–13, 100. First article to explain full scope of the Grand Coulee Dam project...
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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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    The Belo Monte Dam (formerly known as Kararaô) is a hydroelectric dam complex on the northern part of the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil. After...
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    has media related to Kelly Barnes Dam. Buffalo Creek Flood Johnstown Flood St. Francis Dam South Fork Dam Teton Dam "The Old Toccoa Falls Power Plant"...
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    Johnstown Flood (category Dam failures in the United States)
    1130/abs/2017NE-290358. Francis, J.B.; Worthen, W.E.; Becker, M.J.; Fteley, A. (1891). "Report of the Committee on the Cause of the Failure of the South Fork Dam". Transactions...
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    An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation. Theories and methods. Walter de Gruyter. p. 387. ISBN 978-3-11-018002-2. Hayday, Matthew (2005). Bilingual...
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    Walter John Stoessel Jr. (January 24, 1920 – December 9, 1986) was an American diplomat. Born in Manhattan, Kansas, Stoessel was the son of Katherine (Haston)...
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    In 1874, Francis served on the American Society of Civil Engineers committee to investigate the cause of the breach of the Mill River dam in Massachusetts...
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    Mauvoisin Dam is a concrete variable radius arch dam across the Val de Bagnes on the Dranse de Bagnes stream, in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Initial...
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    series of lakes to be created by building dams and establishing reservoirs. Creating the manmade, 46,000-acre Walter F. George Lake also known as Lake Eufaula...
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  • prospector and politician Francis Scott (See 2nd Duke of Buccleuch) Robert Falcon Scott, naval officer and Antarctic explorer Walter Scott, Scottish novelist...
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    Davis Dam is a dam on the Colorado River about 70 miles (110 km) downstream from Hoover Dam. It stretches across the border between Arizona and Nevada...
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    profiteers: Fritz Emil Schultz from Danzig, and a convicted war criminal, Walter C. Többens (i.e. Walther Caspar Toebbens, from Hamburg). Schultz and Többens appeared...
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  • William Francis Buckley (May 30, 1928 – June 3, 1985) was a United States Army officer in the United States Army Special Forces, and a Central Intelligence...
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  • Henry Corner, administrator (1975–1984) Harold Huyton Francis, administrator (1984–1988) Neil Walter, administrator (1988–1990) Graham Keith Ansell, administrator...
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    energy intermittently and with seasonal variability. Traditionally, hydro dams with reservoirs and conventional power plants have been used when variable...
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    Van Dam); m. (2) 1766: Gertrude (née Van Rensselaer) Schuyler. Walter Livingston (1740–1797) m. Cornelia Schuyler (1746–1822), his cousin Henry Walter Livingston...
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  • United States, Physics, 1975 Johannes V. Jensen, Literature, 1944 Henrik Dam, Physiology or Medicine, 1943 Johannes Fibiger, Physiology or Medicine, 1926...
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