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 | Annotated vertical aerial photograph taken during a 'Circus' operation by No. 2 Group aircraft, showing an attack on the power station at Comines, France. Explosions and smoke are rising from direct hits on the boiler house, the pump house and the circulating water pipes of the power station (bottom). Direct hits on workers' houses can also be seen within the marked rectangle (middle). 24 Brist... |  | 08/17/2008 | 170 | 
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 | Annotated vertical aerial photograph taken during a 'Circus' operation by a combined force of Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs drawn from Nos. 21, 105 and 110 Squadrons RAF, which attacked the Etabs. Kuhlmann chemical factory at Choques, France. Bombs can be seen exploding on, the power house ('1'), the chemical works ('2'), the railway sidings and rolling stock ('3'), and other buildings believed to ... |  | 08/17/2008 | 134 | 
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 | Lots Road Power Station became operational in 1905 (it was claimed at that time to be the largest power station ever built) and would eventually power most of the railways and tramways in the Underground Electric Railways group (later London Underground). It was shutdown in 2002 and is being converted into shops restaurants and apartments. |  | 02/11/2006 | 226 | 



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 | Kilroot Power Station is owned by AES Corporation and is the only remaining coal fired power station in Northern Ireland and provides about one third of electricity supplies for Northern Ireland. |  | 01/18/2007 | 249 | 



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 | Ratcliffe-On-Soar Power Station, near Nottingham, a conventional coal-fired power station. |  | 08/05/2005 | 495 | 



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 | High oblique photograph showing bombs bursting on newly-built hangars on the airfield at Desvres, France, during an attack by 6 Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs of No. 110 Squadron RAF, ('Circus' operation). |  | 08/17/2008 | 225 | 
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 | Dates: 15 to 17 June 1941.After Operation Brevity failed to lift the siege of Tobruk in May 1941, a second attempt was launched on 15 June. Beresford-Peirse planned to take Halfaya Pass and Fort Capuzzo using the 4th Indian Division. The tanks of 7th Armoured Division would both support the infantry and advance to the Hafid Ridge, beyond Fort Capuzzo, where they would engage enemy tank forces. ... |  | 01/11/2006 | 431 | 
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 | The William H. Zimmer Power Station, located near Moscow, Ohio, was originally intended to be a boiling water reactor type of nuclear power plant. Although once estimated to be 97% complete, poor construction and quality assurance (QA) led to the plant being converted to coal-fired generation. Today, the plant is generates 1400 gross MWe and 1300 net MWe. Zimmer Power Station is the largest sin... |  | 03/16/2008 | 532 | 



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 | This is a very large coal burning power plant in eastern Kazakhstan, with what is reported to be the tallest chimney in the world (420m). There should be another station very similar nearby, called GRES-1, although I can't locate it myself. This power station is just north of the worlds largest open-cast coal mine, the Bogatyr mine. |  | 08/04/2005 | 409 | 



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 | The water-cooling towers of this pretty-old power station in Cape Town can be seen for ages. Just across the road from a sewage-processing plant, it's not the nicest area to live in. |  | 09/12/2005 | 378 | 



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 | Didcot power station near Oxford. It runs on sawdust and coal ! |  | 01/05/2006 | 185 | 



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 | Vertical aerial photograph taken during a 'Circus' operation by Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs of Nos 21 and 110 Squadrons RAF, showing bombs bursting on goods trains, trucks, bridges and track at the western end of the marshalling yards at Hazebrouck, France. |  | 08/17/2008 | 153 | 
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