FACTOID # 51: Russia won the first World Air Games, held in Turkey in 1997. Events included hang-gliding, sky-surfing, and ballooning.
 
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Scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (316 words)
The European Macroseismic Scale, the Medvedev-Sponheuer-Karnik scale, and the Mercalli scale are all used to measure the intensity of earthquakes.
The Fujita scale estimates the intensity of tornadoes.
The Torino Scale and the Palermo scale measure the impact hazard level of near-Earth objects such as asteroids.
Scale (ratio) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (469 words)
For example, for a scale model of an object, the ratio of corresponding lengths is a dimensionless scale, e.g.
Correspondingly, torques could be represented on the same map by areas in a scale of 1 m² : 12 500 Nm, which is equal to 1 m : 12 500 N. Torques in the plane of the map could be represented by arrows with an independent scale of e.g.
a map of scale 1:50,000 shows a distance of 50,000 cm (=500 m) as 1 cm on a map, and a model on a scale 1:25 of a building with a height of 30 m has a model height of 1.20 m.
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