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The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary or strait in New York City. The waterway, which is not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates Long Island, with the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, from Manhattan Island, and from the Bronx on the North American ...
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In the Kalahari, there are three main mechanisms of atmospheric circulation, dominated by the Kalahari High anticyclone [5] in winter, and by the Kalahari Heat Low in summer: [6] The North and Northwest of the Kalahari are subject to the alternation "Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)/"Continental Trade winds". The ITCZ is the meeting area ...
Newtown Creek, a 3.5-mile (6-kilometer) long tributary of the East River, [1] is an estuary that forms part of the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, in New York City.
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The batteries were 40, 43, and 44 zinc-and-carbon cells, divided into 23 batteries. Each battery would fire 160 fuses in a divided circuit: eight groups of 20 each. The explosion began shortly after 2:50 p.m. on September 24, 1876. There was no damaging shock in the air, the water, or underground.
The East River is a tributary of the New River, 24 miles (39 km) long, [3] in southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia in the United States. Via the New, Kanawha and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River , draining an area of 76.4 square miles (198 km 2 ) [ 4 ] in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians .
It is located on the south side of the East River and stretches to the south near the neighborhood of Flushing, Queens. It is bordered on the west by LaGuardia Airport and the Grand Central Parkway, on the south by Northern Boulevard, and on the east by the neighborhood of College Point. The Flushing River empties into the bay at its southeast ...