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Mountain West Conference - Elevation - Elevation By Conference
... Average campus elevation Mountain West 3,473 feet (2012), 3,650 feet (2013) Big Sky 2,968 feet WAC 1,967 feet Summit League 1,295 feet Pac 12 1,205 feet Elevation data obtained from the USGS Geographic ...
Passes Of The Silvretta And Rätikon Ranges
... pass location type (as of 1911) elevation Jamjoch Guarda to Galtur Snow 0 meters 112 ... feet Fuorcla del Confin Silvretta Pass to the Vermunt Glacier Snow ...
USS Scamp (SS-277) - Seventh War Patrol
... overhead without noticing her presence a scant 10 feet (3.0 m) below the surface ... All hands were knocked off their feet by the explosion and all power was lost ... At just below 300 feet (91 m), she began to hang on, then started up ...
Lyon County, Nevada - Transportation
... County, The Yerington Airport, The Silver Springs Airport with 7200 feet long runway capable of accepting 737's, its runway lights are visible when driving ...
Nine-point Circle - Significant Nine Points
... Points G, H, and I are the feet of the altitudes of the triangle ... six of the points (the midpoints and altitude feet) lie on the triangle itself for an obtuse triangle two of the altitudes have feet outside the triangle, but these feet still belong ...

Famous quotes containing the word feet:

    If the Christ were content with humble toilers for disciples, that wasn’t good enough for our Bert. He wanted dukes’ half sisters and belted earls wiping his feet with their hair; grand apotheosis of the snob, to humiliate the objects of his own awe by making them venerate him.
    Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    ... whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, Emancipating all Nations, you insist upon retaining absolute power over wives. But you must remember that Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken—and notwithstanding all your wise Laws and Maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our Masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet ...
    Abigail Adams (1744–1818)

    The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)