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  • Thumbnail for Pier Gerlofs Donia
    legendary standing. Pier Gerlofs was born around 1480 in Kimswerd near the city of Harlingen, Wonseradeel (modern Friesland, Netherlands). Pier Gerlofs...
    18 KB (2,136 words) - 18:02, 13 October 2024
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    can function as piers. External or free-standing walls may have piers at the ends or on corners. The simplest cross section of the pier is square, or rectangular...
    5 KB (473 words) - 19:51, 20 June 2024
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    A pier is a raised structure that rises above a body of water and usually juts out from its shore, typically supported by piles or pillars, and provides...
    15 KB (1,818 words) - 02:31, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clevedon Pier
    Clevedon Pier is a seaside pier in the town of Clevedon, Somerset, England on the east shore of the Severn Estuary. It was described by Sir John Betjeman...
    26 KB (2,638 words) - 23:29, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oslo Airport, Gardermoen
    2012–2050), including extension of the North Pier by another 100 meters, adding a third runway with a free-standing pier between it and the existing Eastern runway...
    96 KB (7,899 words) - 09:58, 28 October 2024
  • Philadelphia Pier 34 collapse occurred on May 18, 2000 and caused the death of three women inside Club Heat (located on the end of the Pier) and injuries...
    6 KB (708 words) - 07:49, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Piers Morgan
    Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (/pɪərz/; né O'Meara, born 30 March 1965) is an English broadcaster, journalist, writer, and media personality. He began his...
    116 KB (10,760 words) - 22:33, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Temple of the Inscriptions
    portraits with six fingers on one hand and six toes on one foot. The standing figure on Pier C is thought to be a woman, possibly Pakal’s mother, Lady Zac-Kuk...
    12 KB (1,750 words) - 14:22, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Manhattan Beach Pier
    The Manhattan Beach Pier is a pier located in Manhattan Beach, California on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The pier is 928 feet (283 m) long and located...
    13 KB (1,417 words) - 14:54, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for St. Petersburg Pier
    The St. Petersburg Pier, officially known as the St. Pete Pier, is a landmark pleasure pier extending into Tampa Bay from downtown St. Petersburg, Florida...
    44 KB (4,400 words) - 10:31, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carolina Beach Pier
    (204 m) in length, it is one of the longest standing wooden piers in the United States. The deck of the pier is 25 feet (7.6 m) above sea level, while the...
    5 KB (481 words) - 23:04, 12 March 2024
  • The NorthPort Batang Pier is a Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) team that first played in the 2012–13 PBA season. The team took over the franchise...
    44 KB (4,328 words) - 03:55, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Towers (Narragansett, Rhode Island)
    Narragansett Pier Casino built in the 1880s. On November 25, 1969, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Narragansett Pier Casino was...
    5 KB (483 words) - 03:03, 20 October 2024
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    South Street Seaport (redirect from Pier 17)
    (Woody Allen) and Annie (Diane Keaton) had a pivotal scene while standing by a Pier 16 railing in Annie Hall (1977). In the film Working Girl (1988),...
    44 KB (4,080 words) - 04:35, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for North Pier, Blackpool
    ends of the pier were seated shelters. The pier-head is a combination of 420 tons of cast iron and 340 tons of wrought iron columns; standing 50 feet (15 m)...
    24 KB (2,737 words) - 18:34, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Broadway Pier, San Diego
    do this. The pier was featured as a location in the 1979 film Hardcore directed by Paul Schrader and starring George C. Scott (standing in as Los Angeles)...
    3 KB (356 words) - 01:29, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Etchmiadzin Cathedral
    for September 29, 2024. Etchmiadzin has a cruciform plan, four free-standing piers, and four projecting apses, which are semicircular on the interior and...
    154 KB (13,227 words) - 17:43, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alessandro Pier Guidi
    Bobbi, Pier Guidi won the season finale at Zolder and took home fifth in the standings, despite having missed the first three rounds. In 2010, Pier Guidi...
    71 KB (2,937 words) - 10:13, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Israel–Hamas war
    standards, in their view, is condemning an illegal occupation in Ukraine while standing firmly behind Israel that has occupied Palestinian lands. Bolivia has cut...
    507 KB (51,004 words) - 04:13, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grand Pier, Teignmouth
    length. A total of 89 piers were built in England and Wales between 1814 and 1910 of which only 50 are still standing. Teignmouth Pier was built in 1865 by...
    3 KB (326 words) - 22:58, 5 July 2024
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