pillar-and-room method

  • 1Room-and-pillar mining —   The most common method of underground mining in which the mine roof is supported mainly by coal pillars left at regular intervals. Rooms are places where the coal is mined; pillars are areas of coal left between the rooms. Room and pillar… …

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  • 2Architecture and Civil Engineering — ▪ 2009 Introduction Architecture       For Notable Civil Engineering Projects in work or completed in 2008, see Table (Notable Civil Engineering Projects (in work or completed, 2008)).        Beijing was the centre of the world of architecture… …

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  • 3RELIGIOUS LIFE AND COMMUNITIES — Jews UNDER OTTOMAN RULE The Jews of the pre Zionist old yishuv, both sephardim (from the Orient) and ashkenazim (of European origin), dedicated their lives to the fulfillment of religious precepts: the study of the torah and the meticulous… …

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  • 4Mill, John Stuart: Logic and metaphysics — J.S.Mill Logic and metaphysics John Skorupski ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM IN MILL’S PHILOSOPHY Mill’s importance as one of the major figures of nineteenth century politics and culture, and the current interest in him as a moral and political… …

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  • 5Association football tactics and skills — There are various individual skills and team tactics needed to play effective Association football. Football is in theory a very simple game, as illustrated by Kevin Keegan s famous assertion that his tactics for winning a match were to score… …

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  • 6SODOM (modern Sedom) AND GOMORRAH — (Heb. וַעֲמֹרָה סְדֹם), two cities in the plain of the Jordan, usually mentioned   together and sometimes with Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela, which is identified with Zoar. The first biblical reference to them is in the account of the boundaries of… …

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  • 7Community Chapel and Bible Training Center — Formation 1967 Extinction 1988 Type Independent Pentecostal Christian Location Burien, Washington Official languages …

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  • 8The Bible and history — Part of a series on The Bible …

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  • 9Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines — Site of Special Scientific Interest …

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  • 10Cumberland Railway and Coal Company — The Cumberland Railway and Coal Company is a defunct Canadian industrial company with interests in coal mines in Springhill, Nova Scotia, and a railway that operated from Springhill Junction to Parrsboro. Contents 1 Spring Hill and Parrsborough… …

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