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    Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the world's first artificial nuclear reactor. On 2 December 1942, the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction...
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    The voltaic pile was the first electrical battery that could continuously provide an electric current to a circuit. It was invented by Italian chemist...
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  • The Cocoanut Grove fire was a nightclub fire which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1942, and resulted in the deaths of 492 people...
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    an increase of 93 (+2.4%) from the 3,923 counted in the 2000 census. Pile's Grove was first mentioned in a deed dated April 15, 1701, through the date...
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    The Omni Grove Park is a historical resort hotel on the western-facing slope of Sunset Mountain within the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Asheville, North Carolina...
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  • after having a premonition of herself and others perishing in a highway pile-up and uses it by saving herself and a handful of people, but is stalked...
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    Denver Pyle (redirect from Denver Pile)
    was prompted by his decision to do all he could to preserve the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias from being destroyed by loggers, along with the surrounding...
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    1080/14786443808649618. "Pile voltaïque d'une grande énergie électro-chimique; par M. W.-Grove; Extrait par M. Becquerel, qui a présenté la pile de M Grove à l'Académie"...
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    West Virginia. It was built in 1844, and is a two-story, five-bay, "double pile" rectangular brick house. When built, it had upper and lower verandas across...
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    known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, it was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile-1), and the first designed...
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