"Josh Robson"@en . . . . . . "42.0"^^ . . "The Gap"@en . . "Max Chapin"@en . . . . . . . . "The Gap"@en . . . . "The Gap"@en . . "~500"@en . "The Gap"@en . "The Gap Chasm is a deep gorge that bisects the magical land, and it is vaguely based on a railroad track that ran through Anthony's backyard. It is impossibly deep, and guarded at its base by the Gap Dragon (called Stanley Steamer by Princess Ivy and family). For 800 years, the Gap had a massive forget spell on it, causing anyone who strayed too far from the Gap to forget it existed. The spell was cast by Dor during the time of Roogna as he attempted to break up a war between the goblins and harpies. The spell began to break up following the 'time of no magic' caused by Bink, and is generally memorable in contemporary Xanth."@en . "Because the Delaware River has been prone to flooding over the course of recorded American history, the area that would become The Gap was never heavily industrialized. In the 1950s, in an effort to stop the regular flooding of the area, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed the construction of a dam to contain the rising waters that came annually with snowmelt in the spring and heavy rainstorms in the spring, summer, and fall. Their plan was to create a 37-mile, 140-foot reservoir in the Delaware River valley between the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania and the Kittatinny Mountains of New Jersey. Environmental concerns and lawsuits filed by the almost 15,000 displaced residents scrapped the ambitious project and the area was turned into a National Park, the Delaware Water Gap National R"@en . "The Gap Council"@en . . "2"^^ . . . "The Gap was Team Run Amok's second entry into Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors, which competed in the second season under their sister team, Team Creative Steel. It reached the second round of its heat, before losing to Propeller-Head after driving itself into the pit. The robot's name was inspired by the \"mind the gap\" signs and announcements on the London Underground, with its logo also designed to resemble the London Underground logo."@en . . . "Because the Delaware River has been prone to flooding over the course of recorded American history, the area that would become The Gap was never heavily industrialized. In the 1950s, in an effort to stop the regular flooding of the area, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed the construction of a dam to contain the rising waters that came annually with snowmelt in the spring and heavy rainstorms in the spring, summer, and fall. Their plan was to create a 37-mile, 140-foot reservoir in the Delaware River valley between the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania and the Kittatinny Mountains of New Jersey. Environmental concerns and lawsuits filed by the almost 15,000 displaced residents scrapped the ambitious project and the area was turned into a National Park, the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in the late 1970s. Because of its relative proximity to both New York City and Philadelphia, the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area saw hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. In addition to numerous Native American and Dutch historic archeological sites, visitors enjoyed numerous outdoor recreation activities, such as include canoeing, hiking, camping, swimming, cycling, horseback riding, picnicking, fishing and hunting. Foreshadowing the meltdown that would occur roughly twenty years later, the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant accidentally released a large cloud of radioactive steam and gas into the air in 2040. Much of which was deposited in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area because of prevailing winds and air currents in the hours and days that followed the accident. The federal government covered up the event, but the Delaware Water Gap was closed to the public, citing tectonic plate shifts that could possibly cause the entire valley to collapse upon itself; in reality, the state and federal governments were keeping out the public to clean the radiation from the park. It reopened some ten years later, thoroughly scrubbed from the radiation that had temporarily contaminated it, but it never really recovered in the eyes of the public. The hundreds of thousands of visitors that once visited the park dried into a trickle and the site was almost all but forgotten about in the public conscious. In early 2077, as food and energy riots were breaking out across the country, a small group of armed rioters took control of the National Park. Though the Eastern Commonwealth had the ability to route the rioters, they chose not to, dedicating their resources to maintaining peace and security in the larger, nearby cities. Their rationale was simple- the seizure of the park was a relatively minor event, and dealing with it was not high on the priority list. If the winter did not dissuade the rioters to leave the park, the Commonwealth government would deal with it at some future point in time. They never got the chance, as the Great War came to an end later that year and total nuclear annihilation rained down from the skies all across America. The Gap was not directly hit by nuclear weaponry, and as a result, those that had seized the park survived relatively intact. The world around them, on the other hand, was much less fortunate. Interested in their own survival, the people of The Gap retreated into their valley, leaving the devastated ruins of the world behind in favor for their idyllic valley."@en . "198.0"^^ . "Jordan Robson"@en . "The Gap Chasm is a deep gorge that bisects the magical land, and it is vaguely based on a railroad track that ran through Anthony's backyard. It is impossibly deep, and guarded at its base by the Gap Dragon (called Stanley Steamer by Princess Ivy and family). For 800 years, the Gap had a massive forget spell on it, causing anyone who strayed too far from the Gap to forget it existed. The spell was cast by Dor during the time of Roogna as he attempted to break up a war between the goblins and harpies. The spell began to break up following the 'time of no magic' caused by Bink, and is generally memorable in contemporary Xanth."@en . "Pneumatic Lifting Platform"@en . "2"^^ . "The Gap was Team Run Amok's second entry into Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors, which competed in the second season under their sister team, Team Creative Steel. It reached the second round of its heat, before losing to Propeller-Head after driving itself into the pit. The robot's name was inspired by the \"mind the gap\" signs and announcements on the London Underground, with its logo also designed to resemble the London Underground logo. Team Run Amok's Season 1 entry Run Away was also entered into Extreme Warriors: Season 2, also reached the second round. The two robots were due to compete alongside each other in the Nickelodeon Robot Wars US vs UK Tag Team Terror competition, but The Gap had to be replaced by the loanerbot Zanzara after suffering gearbox damage which could not be repaired in time."@en . . . .