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The Reversing Falls are a series of rapids on the Saint John River located in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, where the river runs through a narrow gorge before emptying into the Bay of Fundy.
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* 1604 – Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
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It contains a unique phenomenon called the Reversing Falls where the diurnal tides of the bay reverse the water flow of the river for several kilometres.
The Reversing Falls in Saint John, actually an area of strong rapids, provides one example of the power of these tides ; at every high tide, ocean water is pushed through a narrow gorge in the middle of the city and forces the St. John River to reverse its flow for several hours.
Much of the North End is made up of the former city of Portland and comprises another former working class area which is slowly undergoing gentrification at the eastern end of Douglas Avenue ; immediately north of Portland and upstream from the Reversing Falls is the former community of Indiantown.
Vessels navigating the St. John River can only transit the Reversing Falls gorge at slack tide, thus Indiantown became a location during the 19th and 20th centuries where tugboats and paddle wheelers could dock to wait.
The Saint John River sees its flow reversed at high tide, causing a series of rapids at the famous Reversing Falls where the river empties into the bay, in a gorge in the middle of the city of Saint John.
Even at its western end, tides are impressive, between Wager Bay and the wide Ford Lake ( Tusjujak in Inuktitut ), so-called Reversing Falls occur.
In Canada, only three of those phenomena are known, Reversing Falls in New Brunswick and Barrier Inlet, Hudson Strait, Nunavut are the others.
It crossed the Saint John River at the Reversing Falls Bridge before proceeding on Douglas Avenue into the north end of the city.
Several alignment options were examined with the majority of citizens wanting the highway to go north of the city through the suburb of Millidgeville from where an easier crossing of the Reversing Falls gorge could be attempted.
The removal of the rail yard and historic station coincided with the federally-controlled National Harbours Board building the 4-lane Saint John Harbour Bridge downstream of the Reversing Falls which opened in 1968.
while in the lower sections in the broader floodplain, flooding may occur during late spring from the sheer volume of water which must make its way through the narrow gorge at the Reversing Falls.
A view of the Reversing Falls looking north ( up stream ) with the Reversing Falls Bridge and the Reversing Falls Railway Bridge in the foreground.
The Reversing Falls has also been an important industrial site for over a century.
The Canadian Pacific Railway constructed the Reversing Falls Railway Bridge in 1885 and this structure was replaced in 1922 ; it is currently used by the New Brunswick Southern Railway.
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Reversing the effect in The Wizard of Oz, the supernatural scenes are in " Technicolor mono-chrome " – a special process developed jointly by Director of Photography Jack Cardiff and Technicolor London – while the natural scenes on Earth are in Technicolor.
Reversing lamps are fitted to Super Luxe.
Reversing the effects of fragmentation and increasing habitat connectivity are central goals of restoration ecology.
Reversing and rapids
Another more recent development at the Reversing Falls has been its growing use as a whitewater kayaking location, made unique by the changes in formation of the rapids during incoming or outgoing tides.
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Reversing it, he smashed the butt down on Frederick Seward's head, over and over again.
Reversing the orientation of an edge negates the value of a cycle on that edge.
The normal Reversing DC demag cycle on modern equipment should be 18 seconds or longer.
* Reversing on a divided high-speed road
*" The Sound Waves Reversing " on Good Health, Good Fortune, Good Music CD ( Au Go Go Records-1997 )
Reversing a federal district court in Wyoming, the appellate court panel ordered the lower court to cancel the Mammoth Oil Co .' s leases, demand an accounting of the oil which had been taken from Teapot Dome, and enjoin the company was enjoined from trespassing further on U. S. Government property.
His self-written plays, ' Savage Heat ', ' DADS ', ' Reversing Falls ', ' Pillow Talk ', ' Pajama Games ', and ' This Bloody Business ', have been performed on stages across Canada.
One distinctive section of NBSR's main line is its crossing over the Saint John River approximately west of Mill Street where it crosses the Reversing Falls gorge on the Reversing Falls Railway Bridge.
Reversing of the roles of the machine and its environment turns computational problems into computational resources, which makes CL a logic of resources, only, again, in a more expressive language than that of linear logic, and based on an intuitively convincing and mathematically strict resource semantics.
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* In 2007 the Irving Pulp & Paper Ltd. mill at Reversing Falls accidentally released 680, 000 litres of green liquor into the Saint John River ; pleading guilty, the company received a fine of $ 50, 000.
Reversing and John
Although the bay is mostly freshwater, the entire lower St. John River system has a limited saltwater tidal influence resulting from the Reversing Falls.
Reversing and River
Reversing the flow of the Chicago River is a major example of urban environmental modification.
Reversing and New
" Inside the Cell " in Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes, Rodale Press, 2007, pp. 22 – 27, which references the Feb 12, 2004 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, an article by Yale University researchers.
Reversing his earlier position, he negotiated agreements with the municipal affiliates of the then-incumbent British Columbia New Democratic Party ( NDP ) provincial government and the labour councils of Vancouver and Victoria in 1998 and 1999, resulting in the first and the only Red-Green coalitions in Canadian history in BC's 1999 municipal elections.
* Reversing a prior decision to avoid bailing out New York City from bankruptcy, President Ford proposed a federal program for up to $ 2. 3 billion in short term loans.
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Reversing the key value is particularly useful for indexing data such as sequence numbers, where new key values monotonically increase.
Reversing the key value is particularly useful for indexing data such as sequence numbers, where each new key value is greater than the prior value, i. e., values monotonically increase.
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Reversing this process is known as daylighting a stream and is a visible form of river restoration.
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* Reversing Environmental Damage through Community Focused Sustainable Livelihoods in Ban Don, Surat Thani Province Support by Mangrove for The Future
Reversing and gorge
The railway bridge crosses the gorge immediately downstream from the falls, parallel to the Reversing Falls Road Bridge.
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* Reversing Full Wave DC demagnetizing: this is a demagnetizing method that must be built into the machine during manufacturing.
Reversing into the spot via the parallel parking technique allows one to take advantage of a single empty space not much longer than the car ( in order to complete the parking within three wheel-turns the parking space would generally need to be about one and a half car-length long ).
Reversing its position, APM now demanded immediate U. S. entry into the war.
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