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  2. Continental Resources - Wikipedia

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    In 1967, Harold Hamm founded Shelly Dean Oil Co., Continental's predecessor. [4]In 1990, the company was renamed Continental Resources. [5]In 1995, the company discovered what was later described as the Cedar Hills Field in North Dakota, the 7th largest onshore field in the lower 48 United States ranked by liquid proved reserves, and was the first to develop it exclusively through precision ...

  3. Intercontinental Exchange - Wikipedia

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    Jeffrey Sprecher was a power plant developer who spotted a need for a seamless market in natural gas used to fuel power stations. [2] In the late 1990s, Sprecher acquired Continental Power Exchange, Inc. with the objective of developing an Internet-based platform to provide a more transparent and efficient market structure for over-the-counter energy commodity trading.

  4. Crystal Spring Steam Pumping Station - Wikipedia

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    The pumping station makes use of Crystal Spring, a perennial spring emerging from the foot of Mill Mountain in the City of Roanoke. [3] The spring was used by Native Americans prior to European settlement, after which the land surrounding the spring was granted in a 1747 patent to Mark Evans, an early settler.

  5. Spring Hollow Reservoir - Wikipedia

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    Spring Hollow Reservoir is a 158-acre (0.64 km 2), 3.3-billion-US-gallon (12,000,000 m 3) side-stream reservoir in Roanoke County, Virginia with the largest roller-compacted concrete dam east of the Mississippi [1] Having commenced operation in 1996, it is now the main source of water for residents of Roanoke County.

  6. Continental Can Company - Wikipedia

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    Continental Can Company (CCC) was an American producer of metal containers and packaging company, that was based in Stamford, Connecticut. [ 1 ] The Continental Can Company was founded by Edwin Norton [ 2 ] T.G. Cranwell in 1904, [ 3 ] three years after the formation of its greatest rival, American Can Company . [ 3 ]

  7. John H. Kerr Dam - Wikipedia

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    John H. Kerr Dam is concrete gravity-dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Kerr Lake. The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1947 and 1953 for the purposes of flood control, and hydropower. The dam also serves wildlife resources, forest conservation, and public recreational uses.

  8. Blue Ridge Land Conservancy - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Ridge Land Conservancy (BRLC), formerly known as the Western Virginia Land Trust (WVLT), is a non-profit land trust and conservation organization headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia that seeks to preserve the wilderness and farmlands in the western portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia (not the State of West Virginia) from excessive commercial development.

  9. Ice sheet - Wikipedia

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    Greenland ice sheet as seen from space. An ice sheet is a body of ice which covers a land area of continental size - meaning that it exceeds 50,000 km 2. [4] The currently existing two ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have a much greater area than this minimum definition, measuring at 1.7 million km 2 and 14 million km 2, respectively.