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  • 1Tunnel — This article is about underground passages. For other uses, see Tunnel (disambiguation). Underground tunnel for heatpipes between Rigshospitalet and Amagerværket in Denmark …

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  • 2Tunnel boring machine — A tunnel boring machine that was used at Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository A tunnel boring machine (TBM) also known as a mole , is a machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil and rock strata.… …

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  • 3Mont Blanc Tunnel — Mont Blanc Tunnel, Italian side …

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  • 4Lehigh Tunnel — The Lehigh Tunnel is a pair of tunnels that carries the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension (Interstate 476) under Blue Mountain north from Interstate 78 to the Scranton/Wilkes Barre area between MP 70.7 to 71.5. The tunnel was called the… …

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  • 5Mont Blanc Tunnel — ▪ tunnel, France Italy       major Alpine automotive tunnel connecting France and Italy. It is 7.3 miles (11.7 km) long and is driven under the highest mountain in Europe. The tunnel is notable for its solution of a difficult ventilation problem… …

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  • 6Moffat Tunnel — The western entrance to the tunnel The Moffat Tunnel is a railroad and water tunnel that cuts through the Continental Divide in north central Colorado. Named after Colorado railroad pioneer David Moffat, the tunnel s first railroad traffic passed …

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  • 7Laurel Hill Tunnel — is one of three original Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels which were abandoned (this one in 1964) after two massive realignment projects. The Laurel Hill Tunnel was bored under the border between Westmoreland and Somerset Counties. The others,… …

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  • 8Magic Mountain Water Park — Location Moncton, New Brunswick …

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  • 9tunnels and underground excavations — ▪ engineering Introduction        Great tunnels of the world Great tunnels of the worldhorizontal underground passageway produced by excavation or occasionally by nature s action in dissolving a soluble rock, such as limestone. A vertical opening …

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  • 10JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period …

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