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It is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California. The original complex, with 2 million square feet (190,000 square meters) of office space, is the company's second largest square footage assemblage of Google buildings, after Google's 111 Eighth Avenue building in New York City, which the company bought in 2010.
A A-grade Also aid climbing grade. The technical difficulty grading system for aid climbing (both for "original" and an adapted version for "new wave"), which goes: A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and up to A6 (for "new wave"). See C-grade. Abalakov thread Abalakov thread Also V-thread. A type of anchor used in abseiling especially in winter and in ice climbing. ABD Also assisted braking device. A term ...
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains, [12] the population was 82,376 at the 2020 census. [8] Mountain View was integral to the early history and growth of Silicon Valley, and is the location of many high technology companies.
Also called big mountain or extreme riding. Often used interchangeably with backcountry snowboarding and freeskiing . A style of snowboarding and sometimes skiing performed on natural, off-piste , ungroomed terrain without a set course, goals, or rules, eschewing man-made features such as jumps, rails, and half-pipes and emphasizing the use of ...
Topping out in southern Denmark. In building construction, topping out (sometimes referred to as topping off) is a builders' rite traditionally held when the last beam (or its equivalent) is placed at the top of a structure during its construction.
A cairn marking a mountain summit in Graubünden, Switzerland. The biggest cairn in Ireland, Maeve's Cairn on Knocknarea. A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn [ˈkʰaːrˠn̪ˠ] (plural càirn [ˈkʰaːrˠɲ]). [1]
In Scotland and parts of England, a headland or cape, or another name for a cuspate foreland; or a spur of a mountain ridge. [4] nodal region A region characterized by a set of places connected to another place by lines of communication or movement. [5] North Geographic Pole. Also called the Geographic North Pole, Geographic North, or simply ...
Mountain View (Chatham, Virginia), a historic home; Mountain View (Roanoke, Virginia), a historic home; Mountain View, Richmond, a historic home in Richmond, New South Wales, Australia; Mountain View Homestead and General Store, a historic building in Wisemans Creek, New South Wales, Australia; Mountain View Park (New Jersey), a park in Middlesex