Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet WINDMILL

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• Moulin Rouge is southwest of Montmartre, in the Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, and has a landmark red windmill on its roof.
• A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.
• The windmill Welgelegen or Tjepkema's Molen is the only survivor of seventeen which have stood in Heerenveen.
• It comprises a railway station, a windmill, a farmhouse and a pub which closed in late 2015 (though permission for conversion to a dwelling was refused; campaigners are seeking to reopen it as a pub).
• It resembles a 1900 farmstead with a paved windmill trail for sightseers and joggers to use and enjoy.
• Also notable are the three bridges over the IJssel which connect Kampen with IJsselmuiden and Kampereiland, the agricultural area between the branches which form the IJssel delta, and a windmill (d' Olde Zwarver – the Old Vagabond).
• Fenner is the location of a windmill power generating station, home to 20 wind turbines which create enough energy to power more than 10,000 homes annually.
• The Hickman Windmill Park & Depot Museum features the Historic Hudson Depot and Red Caboose, as well as a 19th century windmill.
• The Shattuck Windmill Museum has a large number of vintage windmills, as well as versions of some early settler buildings.
• In 1728, the town of Jamestown built a windmill for grinding corn, which used the sea breeze for power since there was no source of running water to turn a waterwheel.
• A windmill pumped water from a well drilled in the middle of Main Street, and citizens hauled the water in barrels and buckets.
• Little Chute is home to a full-scale Dutch-style working windmill, which has become a tourist attraction.
• It was the home of Sir William Cubitt, who invented the self-regulating windmill sail and the prison treadmill.
• In the United States, there are some traditional windmills, but the American usage of the word "windmill" includes some that are actually windpumps.
• Most of these were corn mills (to grind flour), but almost any industrial process needing motive power, beyond that available from the muscles of men or animals, used a water wheel, unless a windmill was preferred.
• It is known for its 1801 windmill (Heimolen) as well as the cycling race called Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen and Aartselaar BBC, the official basketball club of the town.
• An old windmill, the last one in the Mechelen area, churches and chapels, and farms, many with their original water pumps, dot the landscape around the city.
• thumbMount Pleasant Mill is a windmill north of Kirton in Lindsey on the North Cliff Road in North Lincolnshire in the east of England (Yorkshire and the Humber).
• Napoleon later commented that: "I think I'm the boldest general that ever lived, but I daren't take post on that ridge with windmill at Valmy (where Kellermann took position) in 1793".

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