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The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.

Historical image related to The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia. from October 31, 1923

Fahrenheit

Temperature scale

The Fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). It uses the degree Fahrenheit as the unit. Several accounts of how he originally defined his scale exist, but the original paper suggests the lower…
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Marble Bar, Western Australia

Town in Western Australia

Marble Bar is a town and rock formation in the Pilbara region of north-western Western Australia. It was the social centre of European settlers in the Pilbara region during the early 1900s, predating the construction of other towns now established.
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