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** Pier, a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars
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** Steeplechase Pier, a former Atlantic City, New Jersey Boardwalk attraction destroyed in the 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane
** Hilton Docklands Nelson Dock Pier, the official name of a pier on the south bank of the River Thames in Rotherhithe, London
** Macquarie Pier, built in 1818 on the Hunter River for the port of Newcastle, a breakwater linking Coal Island, now known as Nobby's Head, to the mainland at South Head ( now Fort Scratchley )
** Canarsie Pier is the latest in a series of recreational piers near this location, and remains popular as a picnic area and fishing spot on the north shore of the bay.
** Brockenhurst to Lymington Pier ( Weekend services only, with a class 158 providing weekday services )
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** Diplomatic relations between the Israeli and the Japanese governments are raised to embassy level.
** Resolution 1: Established the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission ( UNAEC ) " to deal with the problems raised by the discovery of atomic energy " and tasked to " make specific proposals ... for the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and of all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction ", among other issues regarding nuclear technology.
** Again since the effective end of Ottoman rule, remarkably since 1857 ( i. e. before the last Wali ( governor ), Isma ` il Pasha, was raised Khedive ( circa Viceroy, on 8 June 1867 ), exchanged for the western Prime ministers on 28 August 1878 ( before the formally independent sultanate was proclaimed ).
** Karkan: In a 1972 imaginary story, infant Kal-El lands in Africa and, like Tarzan, is found and raised by gorillas.
** Gallery, in a theatre or concert hall, one or more raised seating platforms towards the rear of the auditorium — see Theater ( structure )
** Subfamily Creseinae Curry, 1982: this subfamily has been raised to the rank of family Creseidae, belonging to the superfamily Limacinoidea.
** Hyperkalemia – A small rise of 0. 5 mmol / l occurs normally, this is of little consequence unless potassium is already raised such as in renal failure
** BQ: Gilles Duceppe angrily rejects allegations raised by Health Minister Pierre Pettigrew that the Bloc " likes to take pleasure in its homogeneity " and does not represent multicultural Quebec.
** The only rare exception would be completely and unambiguously virilized XX infants with CAH, who might be raised as male with genital surgery deferred.
** The " main pool " on the ground floor is 50 m by 20 m with a maximum depth of 2 m. A sinkable boom can separate the pool into a 23 m by 20 m with constant depth between floor level and 2 m depth ; and a 25 m by 20 m section at 2 m depth, which in turn can be separated by another sinkable boom to allow a section of 10 m by 20 m. The floors of these 3 sections can each be independently raised or lowered between very shallow and 2 meters ( 6 feet 6 inches ) depth.
** Lowell ( about half the platform is raised and the other half is level with the track ; the raised section can serve up to 4 cars, although the train usually only pulls up far enough for access to 3 cars from the raised section )
** Frenulum of superior medullary velum, a slightly raised white band passing to the superior medullary velum
** A Territorial Prelate, formerly called a Prelate nullius dioceseos ( of no diocese ), in charge of a geographical area that has not yet been raised to the level of diocese
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