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The distance between two points is the length of a straight line segment between them. In the case of two locations on Earth, usually the distance along the surface is meant: either "as the crow flies" (along a great circle) or by road, railroad, etc. Distance is sometimes expressed in terms of the time to cover it, for example walking or by car. Sometimes a distance thus indicated is ambiguous because the means ...

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The Jets began as the Titans of New York, a charter member of the American Football League in 1960. The name "Titans" was intended to be a play on "Giants", New York's highly successful NFL franchise. The team played its home games at the decrepit Polo Grounds and did not draw spectators well, despite fielding respectable teams that finished .500 (7–7) in their first two seasons. However, after the 1962 season, when the Titans finished 5–9, the team's future in New York was in doubt. The team was saved from bankruptcy by a group i ...

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The climate of Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) is heavily influenced by water temperatures in the adjacent Atlantic Ocean. Numerous local microclimates make weather somewhat unpredictable but the region is generally milder than inland areas having a continental climate (eg. central Canada); HRM air temperatures average between -15°C (23°F) and 25°C (77°F). Snow falls and melts alternately from November through March. Halifax usually experiences several strong winter storms. In February 2004 a record of 95 cm (32" ...

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The largest employer in HRM is government, with most provincial government departments headquartered in the area, as well as many regional offices for federal government departments and agencies. The Department of National Defence is the largest single employer and Halifax Harbour continues to serve a major military purpose as home port for Maritime Forces Atlantic. CFB Halifax is Canada's largest naval base and the nation's largest military base in number of personnel. This base is comprised of various shore-based facilities including HMC D ...

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A distance between two points P and Q in a metric space is d(P,Q), where d is the distance function that defines the given metric space. We can also define the distance between two sets A and B in a metric space as being the minimum (or infimum) of distances between any two points P in A and Q in B. Alternatively, the distance between sets may indicate "how different they are", by taking the supremum over one set of the distance from a point in that set to the other set, and conversely, and taking the ...

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The Jets began as the Titans of New York, a charter member of the American Football League in 1960. The name "Titans" was intended to be a play on "Giants", New York's highly successful NFL franchise. The team played its home games at the decrepit Polo Grounds and did not draw spectators well, despite fielding respectable teams that finished .500 (7–7) in their first two seasons. However, after the 1962 season, when the Titans finished 5–9, the team's future in New York was in doubt. The team was saved from bankruptcy by a group i ...

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Each track on a chaining line is given a number, letter or (rarely) a combination of both to identify a particular track on a particular line. New York City Subway chaining - BMT / IND practice. On the BMT and IND an odd numbered mainline track is going railroad south and an even numbered mainline track is going railroad north. In many locations a track may be going "railroad" north or south where the compass direction is different or even opposite. This may be because it is an essenti ...

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Chaining lines are routes on physical railroad lines that are usually described by one or two letters for the purpose of identifying locations on those lines. Chaining lines are not necessarily the same as the physical lines they run on. One physical line may have several chaining letters, and one chaining line may cover several physical lines. The letters assigned to a chaining line have nothing whatever to do with the letters displayed on trains and public maps and timetables. These latter are subway service letters . See: New York City Subway line, route and ...

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New York Jets - Current players. DEPTH CHART Offensive backs 35 B.J. Askew, FB 23 Derrick Blaylock, RB 5 Brooks Bollinger, QB 34 Cedric Houston, RB 27 Terry Butler RB 3 Kliff Kingsbury, QB 33 Jerald Sowell, FB 16 Vinny Testaverde, QB Receivers 87 Laveranues Coles, WR 89 Jericho Cotchery, WR 85 James Dearth, TE-LS 83 Joel Dreessen, TE 88 Doug Jolley, TE 81 Justin McCareins, WR 84 Dante R ...

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Chaining zero is a fixed point from which the chaining is measured on a particular chaining line. A chaining number at a specific location (called a chaining station) on a line of 243, say, identifies that the point is 24,300 feet (~4.6 miles or ~7.4 km) from chaining zero, usually measured along the center line of the railroad. Once chaining is established, it is rare but not unheard of to change the location or route to chaining zero on a given line. However, it is not uncommon for a line's chaining numbe ...

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New York Jets - Current players. DEPTH CHART Offensive backs 35 B.J. Askew, FB 23 Derrick Blaylock, RB 5 Brooks Bollinger, QB 34 Cedric Houston, RB 27 Terry Butler RB 3 Kliff Kingsbury, QB 33 Jerald Sowell, FB 16 Vinny Testaverde, QB Receivers 87 Laveranues Coles, WR 89 Jericho Cotchery, WR 85 James Dearth, TE-LS 83 Joel Dreessen, TE 88 Doug Jolley, TE 81 Justin McCareins, WR 84 Dante R ...

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Halifax International Airport, which serves HRM and virtually all of peninsular Nova Scotia, is located in the northern part of the municipality on the border with Hants County in Enfield. HRM is the eastern terminus of the Canadian National Railway, which provides direct freight service to Montreal, Toronto, and Chicago for cargo arriving at either of Halifax's two container terminals, or the port's general cargo and specialized cargo piers. Via Rail Canada also operates the O ...

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Main Article: Climate and Geography of Halifax Regional Municipality HRM's climate is heavily influenced by its location on Nova Scotia's Atlantic coast. The weather, while notoriously unpredictable, is usually milder than that of central Canada, with the temperature remaining (with occasional notable exceptions) between about -15°C (23°F) and 25°C (77°F). The Halifax Regional Municipality has an area of 5,900 km² which is larger than the province of Prince Edward Island, and measures approximately 165 km in length ...

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Originally named Jipugtug, or Chebucto - which means biggest harbour - by the Mi'kmaq people who lived there, the town of Halifax was founded by British General Edward Cornwallis, and 2500 settlers on July 9, 1749 as a military outpost for the British. The town of Dartmouth was settled soon after on the opposite side of the harbour. To link the two communities, a ferry service was started between Halifax and Dartmouth that still operates today; it is the oldest saltwater ferry in North America. The purpose of Halifax's founding was as ...

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The Halifax Regional School Board is responsible for administering the 150 public schools located within HRM, providing instruction from primary to grade 12. There are also 14 independent/private schools in the municipality. The municipality is home to six degree-granting post-secondary educational institutions: Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, King's College, AST and NSCAD are all located on the Halifax Peninsula while Mount Saint Vincent University is located in Rockingham. The former Technical University of Nova Scoti ...

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See Main Article: Culture, Sport and Media in Halifax Regional Muncipality HRM's urban core is the highest population centre in Atlantic Canada and is a major cultural centre within the region. The municipality's urban core also benefits from a large population of post-secondary students who provide a strong influence to the local cultural scene. HRM has a number of art galleries, theatres and museums, as well as most of the regions national quality sports and entertainment facilities. The region is also noted for its music sce ...

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The Halifax Regional Municipality is governed by a mayor (elected at large) and a twenty-three person regional council, who are elected by geographic district; municipal elections occur every leap year. HRM can establish "community councils" where three or more councilors agree to form these councils to deal primarily with local development issues. Most community council decisions are subject to approval by regional council. Council has responsibility for the Halifax Regional Police Department, the Halifax Regional Library, the Halifax Regional Fire Department, Halifax Regional Water Commission, park ...

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Approximately 18.3% of the population is under the age of 14, whereas those 65 and older make up 11%. Racial make-up White: 326,610 or 93.8% Black: 10,665 or 3.0% mixed race: 4,590 or 1.3% Arab: 3,030 or 1.0% Chinese: 2,135 or 0.6% (based on single responses) Religious make-up Protestant 45.38% Catholic 37.23% Other Christian 1.40% Muslim 0.86% Christian Orthodox 0.79% Jewish 0.44% Bu ...

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See also: List of buildings in the Halifax Regional Municipality The Halifax Regional Municipality has a higher proportion of historic buildings compared with other municipalities in Canada, particularly in the downtown urban core. Preservationists and heritage advocacy organizations have attempted to prevent their demolition by developers in recent decades. Such groups have been critisized for stunting the centralization of urban growth and for stopping buildings from being built on empty land containing little to no historic ...

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