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Beside Foxton locks is the site of a long-abandoned inclined plane boat lift.
Alongside the locks is the site of the Foxton Inclined Plane, an inclined plane built in 1900 as a solution to various operational restrictions imposed by the lock flight.
HM Prison Gartree is west of the town near Foxton and the site of a prisoner escape by helicopter in 1987.
A number of tribes have occupied the area ; the Rangitane had replaced the Ngati Ara and the Ngati Mamoe by the 1800s and were in their turn invaded by the Ngati Toa and allies so that in the 1840s the site of Te Awahou ( which was to become Foxton ) was occupied by the Ngati Ngarongo and Ngati Takihiku under the leadership of Ihakara Tukumara.
It is on the Grand Union Canal and is the site of the Foxton Locks and Foxton Inclined Plane.

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A short section of the Shropshire Canal ran across the site to the Hay Inclined Plane, which transported boats up and down the tall incline from Blists Hill to Coalport.

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* " No Plane No Gain " site about business aviation
* Japanese web site for Paper Plane
*: Peak Wreck Hunters ' Photos and Information on ' Plane Crash site

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* General Dynamics Electric Boat web site
* Electric Boat information page on General Dynamics Corporation site
* Electric Boat / General Dynamics web site with information on John P. Holland and others who were present during the foundation of this company
Meadow Lake is the site of the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York, and teams from New York practice in Meadow Lake during the summer months.
As the removal of the lock and weir meant that this was the longest clear stretch of the upper river, it was an ideal site for rowing, and so the Oxford University Boat Club which had long trained here built a boathouse at Chalmore in 2006.
Forest Lake was the site of the 1968 World Outboard Power Boat Racing Championship.
In the year 278 B. C., upon learning of the upcoming devastation of his state from invasion by a neighbouring Warring State ( Qin in particular ), Qu is said to have waded into the Miluo river which drains into Dongting Hu ( lake ) in today's Hunan Province — near the provincial capital city of Changsha and south of the city of Yueyang on Donting Hu, site of the first IDBF World Dragon Boat Championship in 1996 — holding a great rock in order to commit ritual suicide as a form of protest against the corruption of the era.
In Britain the dragon boats were initially made in two pieces for transpot and bolted together at competition site with many bolts .. the first one piece boats boats were made on the Isle of Wight for Dragon Boat Events
A smaller Mazu temple exists in the Treasure Boat Shipyard Park, located at the site of the Longjiang Shipyard where Zheng He's treasure ships were built.
It is the site of the annual Windermere Cup crew regatta and the Seattle Yacht Club's Opening Day Boat Parade, both of which take place on the first Saturday in May.
Blairgowrie had a busy livestock market at the bottom of the Boat Brae but this closed in the 1960s and is now the site of the Ashgrove Court sheltered housing complex.
This has maintained the dock as a popular site for sailing, windsurfing, canoeing and even Chinese Dragon Boat racing.
In 1924 the Carrum Bowling Club was founded ; in 1937 the Carrum Surf Lifesaving Club was founded ; in 1946 the Patterson River Motor Boat Club was founded at the original site of the Carrum Surf Lifesaving Club, which located to a new site 400 metres south ; and in 1966 the Carrum Sailing Club was founded.
Also in this area is Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant, a permanently docked cruise ship that serves as a restaurant popular with tourists and the Redpath Sugar Building which remains an industrial site.
The Berthon Boat Company is still operating today on the same site and is still a boat yard with a workforce of 70 skilled craftsmen specialising in the refit and repair of yachts of up to 150 feet.
Boat tours from Kabetogama Visitor Center visit this site on the northern shore of Lake Kabetogama.
* Profile on the Boat Race site
Lake Nokomis has been the site of one of the more distinctive activities in the Minneapolis Aquatennial celebration, the " Milk Carton Boat Race ," from 1983 to 2000, although that event was relocated back to Lake Calhoun in 2001.
This site has become the James Cairds permanent home, although it is sometimes lent to major exhibitions and has been seen in the London Boat Show ( 1994 & 2009 ), Greenwich, Portsmouth, Falmouth ( 2006 ), Washington DC, New York, Wellington ( 2004 ), and Bonn, Germany ( 1998 ).
The site is now the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port ( formerly known as the Boat Museum ).
Leaving Boat of Garten, trains cross the road on the new single track box-girder bridge and pass the site of the original GNSR engine shed, long demolished it is now the site of a permanent way depot.
The oldest evidence for a clinker-built vessel, dendrochronologically dated to 190 AD, are boat fragments which were found in recent excavations at the site of the famous Nydam Boat.

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Twenty feet below the street level in the excavation of the new motel to be constructed on this site, a black coal-like deposit has been encountered.
Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.
The strategic site has been a prohibited zone in the twentieth century.
Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.
The precise archaeological site of the city of Akkad has not yet been found.
Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.
The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.
Archaeology has uncovered remains at the site dating to approximately 3000 BC.
Whilst Anah has thus retained its name for forty-two centuries the site is variously described.
Recently, Abandan has been the site of major labor activity as workers at the oil refineries in the city have staged walkouts and strikes to protest non-payment of wages and the political situation in the country.
A second temple has also been located at the archaeological site of Metropolis in what is now Western Turkey.
His home a few kilometers outside Banyuls, also the site of his final resting place, has been turned into a museum where a number of his works and sketches are displayed.
The site has a 90, 000-square foot heated indoor practice facility, Three outdoor NFL natural turf football fields that feature an immediate gravity drainage system, and a complete kitchen and dining facilities for team meals.
The state has been a frequent spring training site since 1946.
He also has a residence next to Canterbury Cathedral on the site of the medieval Archbishop's Palace.
It is thus the first site where the archaeology confirms the continuity of Mycenaean and Classical Greek religion, which has been inferred from the presence of the names of Classical Greek divinities on Linear B texts from Pylos and Knossos.
The description of the Uppsala temple is one of the most famous excerpts of the Gesta, however as no archaeological site has ever been found, one can wonder if Adam ’ s description is linked to reality.
The most representative site explored up to now is Knossos ( see Crete ) which has yielded not only the most various but the most continuous evidence from the Neolithic age to the twilight of classical civilization.
A map of Cyprus in the later Bronze Age ( such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter in Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum ) shows more than 25 settlements in and about the Mesaorea district alone, of which one, that at Enkomi, near the site of Salamis, has yielded the richest Aegean treasure in precious metal found outside Mycenae.
It has been estimated that around 125, 000 pilgrims visit the site every day.
A cattle market has been held in Abergavenny on its current site since 1863.
A memorial plaque for the deceased has now been placed at the site.
The animation below shows two sunsets at a hypothetical site, one the day before the summer solstice and one at the summer solstice, which has a double sunset.
The atoll has long been a maritime hazard and is the site of numerous shipwrecks.
Burkina has been the site of several development success stories.

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