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Blue Marsh Lake
Blue Marsh Lake is an artificial lake located northwest of the city of Reading, Pennsylvania, USA and managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District. It is in western Berks County, fed into by the Tulpehocken Creek (Pennsylvania), Tulpehocken Creek. The main span of the lake is along the border between Bern Township, Pennsylvania, Bern and Lower Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania, Lower Heidelberg Townships. However, the northwesternmost portions lie in the more sparsely populated North Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania, North Heidelberg and Penn Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, Penn Townships. In the middle of the lake is a large, uninhabited island (claimed by Bern Township). The lake is a popular recreation area in the summer, where people can fishing, fish, human swimming, swim, and boating, boat. It has 36 miles of trails and 1,147 acres of water. It was built and is operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Phi ...
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Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB color model, RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB color model, RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between Violet (color), violet and cyan on the optical spectrum, spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colours; Azure (color), azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering#Cause of the blue colour of the sky, Rayleigh scattering. An optical effect called Tyndall effect explains Eye color#Blue, blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective. Blue has been an important colour in art and decoration since ancient times. The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was used i ...
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