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In which city does a high-speed elevated highway pass through a 16-story building?

In the Japanese city of Osaka, there is a Gate Tower building, through which an elevated highway passes. In 1983, the owners of the land below the building decided to redevelop the existing property, but faced a ban from the city authorities due to the approved road construction plan. However, the owners did not give up and after lengthy negotiations with the corporation that laid the highway, they reached a compromise.

The 16-story high-rise was built so that the road passed through it between the 4th and 8th floors, and in the building itself, only stairs and elevators are located on these floors. The highway at the intersection is surrounded by a special structure that protects the house from noise and vibration.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Why are the colors of the rainbow arranged in this order?

We call ordinary sunlight white because it appears to us as such. However, it actually has different colors. When sunlight hits the beveled end of a mirror, the edge of a glass prism, or the surface of a soap bubble, we manage to see a whole range of colors in it. What happens in each of these cases is that the white rays break up, according to their wavelengths, into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet colors.

As a result, a strip appears before our eyes, consisting of parallel lines of different colors, and at their borders one color smoothly turns into another. Such a strip is called a spectrum. The red line is always at one end of the spectrum, and the violet line is at the other. This is determined by the difference in the wavelengths of rays of different colors: it increases from purple to red.

The rainbow, in fact, is such a spectrum, spread out in an arc across the sky. The sun's rays, penetrating into drops of water, are refracted, that is, they break up into their component parts, as happens when they pass through a glass prism. Already inside the drop itself, we see lines of different colors stretching from one of its edges to the other. Some of the colored rays are reflected from the rear wall of the drop and exit it. These rays are reflected at different angles depending on the color, more precisely, as we already know, the wavelength.

Therefore, when you look at a rainbow, you see that it is always red at the top and purple at the bottom. Rainbows can only be seen when it rains and the sun shines at the same time, as often happens during summer showers. To see it, you should be between the rain and the sun shining from behind you. Moreover, the sun, your eye and the central point of the multi-colored arc should be located on the same straight line.

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