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The gates are designed to withstand a 3.00-metre (9.84 ft) maximum tide (to date, the highest tide has been 1.94 metres (6 ft 4 in)) MOSE is designed to cope with a 60 centimetres (24 in) rise in sea level; 30 minutes are required to raise the gates; 15 minutes are required to lower the gates back into their housing structures
Moses Gate Country Park, part of which is also known as Crompton Lodges, (National Grid Ref: SD 749063) is a 750 acre (300 hectare) site situated at Moses Gate in the Croal and Irwell Valleys 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Bolton town centre on the A6053 road which connects Farnworth to Little Lever. It is a Local Nature Reserve. [1] [2]
Moses Gate is a small district of Farnworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire , it lies 2.6 miles (4.2 km) southeast of Bolton town centre and 10.8 miles (17.4 km) northwest of the city of Manchester .
It is one of several locations claimed to be the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the Torah, Bible, and Quran, Moses received the Ten Commandments. It is a 2,285-meter (7,497 ft), moderately high mountain near the city of Saint Catherine in the region known today as the Sinai Peninsula .
Moses and Aaron counting Simeon's tribe Towns belonging to Simeon are listed in the Book of Joshua ; [ 23 ] elsewhere in Joshua these towns are ascribed to Judah. [ 18 ] [ 24 ] Most modern scholars view the Book of Joshua as being spliced together from several different source texts, in this particular case, the lists of towns being different ...
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Nabi Musa (Arabic: ٱلنَّبِي مُوْسَى, romanized: An-Nabī Mūsā, lit. 'the Prophet Moses', [3] also transliterated as Nebi Musa) is primarily a Muslim holy site near Jericho in Palestine, where a local Muslim tradition places the tomb of Moses (called Musa in Islam).
The MOSE barrier at the Malamocco inlet has 19 gates 29.5 m long, 20 m wide and 4.5 m thick lodged in seven housing structures 60 m long, 48 m wide and 12.5 m high. Five of them have three gates and two smaller ones have two. A lock allows ships to pass through when the gates are raised. It is 380 m long and 50 m wide.