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  2. Cobblestone - Wikipedia

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    Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings. Setts , also called Belgian blocks, are often referred to as "cobbles", [ 1 ] although a sett is distinct from a cobblestone by being quarried and shaped into a regular form, while cobblestones are naturally occurring ...

  3. List of cobblestone buildings - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of cobblestone buildings, mostly houses and mostly but not all in the United States, that are notable and that reflect cobblestone architecture. Cobblestone architecture had some popularity for substantial homes and other buildings for a period, but is limited in scope of employment. St. Alban's Church, Copenhagen

  4. Stirling engine - Wikipedia

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    Philips MP1002CA Stirling generator of 1951. During the early part of the 20th century, the role of the Stirling engine as a "domestic motor" [32] was gradually taken over by electric motors and small internal combustion engines. By the late 1930s, it was largely forgotten, only produced for toys and a few small ventilating fans. [33]

  5. Sacré-Cœur, Paris - Wikipedia

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    The Basilica of Sacré Cœur de Montmartre (English: Sacred Heart of Montmartre), commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur (French: Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre, pronounced [sakʁe kœʁ]), is a Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

  6. Coilgun - Wikipedia

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    Simplified diagram of a multistage coilgun with three coils, a barrel, and a ferromagnetic projectile. A coilgun is a type of mass driver consisting of one or more coils used as electromagnets in the configuration of a linear motor that accelerate a ferromagnetic or conducting projectile to high velocity. [1]

  7. Orion (roller coaster) - Wikipedia

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    The first drop of Orion. Orion / ɒr ˈ aɪ ˈ ɪ n / is a steel roller coaster located at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio.Manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, Orion became the seventh giga coaster in the world when it opened to the public on July 2, 2020.

  8. Paris–Roubaix - Wikipedia

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    All finishers receive a small cobblestone on a wooden plinth. [78] The Paris–Roubaix Skoda Classic Challenge is organised the day before the pro race in April. From 2021, Paris–Roubaix Femmes – a professional women's race in the UCI Women's World Tour – has been held on Saturday, with the men's race taking place on the Sunday.

  9. Pearson hashing - Wikipedia

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    Pearson hashing is a non-cryptographic hash function designed for fast execution on processors with 8-bit registers.Given an input consisting of any number of bytes, it produces as output a single byte that is strongly dependent on every byte of the input.