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I made a mistake of doing a daylong motorcycle trip without bringing any bottled water. These were the only bottled beverages I could find, for sale in a straw shack in a roadside town probably populated by about 50 people.
Pikin is West African Pidgin slang for man/boy. Here is the best explanation I can find for where Bumba may have come from.
All of the swill found in bottles like these in Sierra Leone were wretched. They did the trick, and I never lost my eyesight, but it was an effort to drink it.
The soft drinks seen here were nearly as bad, and unfortunately the closest approximation to clean water I was to find that day.
There are times when a five minute ride though an urban oasis like this makes a dull day at work disappear. With three kids and little spare cash I seldom get out to the trails, but I find dirt in the city where I can, and sometimes it's pretty special.
Live @ Bush Hall London, 2013
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George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
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African bush elephant - Loxodonta africana – Саванный слон
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Tembe Elephant Park, Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 02/23/2021
Live @ Bush Hall London, 2013
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Bush on a photo walk in the Lea Valley, Cheshunt
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush and his top aides publicly made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following September 11, 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups.
"In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003," reads an overview of the examination, conducted by the Center for Public Integrity and its affiliated group, the Fund for Independence in Journalism.
According to the study, Bush and seven top officials -- including Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice -- made 935 false statements about Iraq during those two years.
The study was based on a searchable database compiled of primary sources, such as official government transcripts and speeches, and secondary sources -- mainly quotes from major media organizations. See CNN viewers' reactions to the study »
The study says Bush made 232 false statements about Iraq and former leader Saddam Hussein's possessing weapons of mass destruction, and 28 false statements about Iraq's links to al Qaeda.
Bush has consistently asserted that at the time he and other officials made the statements, the intelligence community of the U.S. and several other nations, including Britain, believed Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
He has repeatedly said that despite the intelligence flaws, removing Hussein from power was the right thing to do.
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Press Secretary Ari Fleischer each made 109 false statements, it says. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz made 85, Rice made 56, Cheney made 48 and Scott McLellan, also a press secretary, made 14, the study says.
"It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al Qaeda," the report reads, citing multiple government reports, including those by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the 9/11 Commission and the multinational Iraq Survey Group, which reported that Hussein had suspended Iraq's nuclear program in 1991 and made little effort to revive it.
The overview of the study also calls the media to task, saying most media outlets didn't do enough to investigate the claims.
"Some journalists -- indeed, even some entire news organizations -- have since acknowledged that their coverage during those prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical," the report reads. "These mea culpas notwithstanding, much of the wall-to-wall media coverage provided additional, 'independent' validation of the Bush administration's false statements about Iraq."
The quotes in the study include an August 26, 2002, statement by Cheney to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," Cheney said. "There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."
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Our cameras took photos of at least 28 different species of mammals and 18 species of birds, but this photo of a pair of bush dogs was perhaps the most exciting. Almost nothing is known about this species in the wild. It has never been formally studied, and even indigenous people who live and hunt in the rainforest rarely glimpse this rare and elusive canid.
National Zoo scientists set up camera traps in a remote section of the Amazon rain forest to gather data about the variety of species that inhabit it. Learn more about the project here: nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MAB/research/ar...
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and is the younger brother of former President George W. Bush. Jeb Bush is the only Republican to serve two full four-year terms as Governor of Florida.
Bush grew up in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then attended the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. Following his father's successful run for Vice President in 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development. In 1986, Bush was named Florida's Secretary of Commerce, a position he held until resigning in 1988 to help his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.
In 1994, Bush made his first run for office, narrowly losing the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent Lawton Chiles. Bush ran again in 1998 and beat Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for reelection in 2002 and won with 56 percent to become Florida's first two-term Republican Governor. During his eight years as governor, Bush was credited with initiating improvements in the environment, as well as reforming the education system. He was also responsible for ending the Florida high speed rail initiative.
Bush has frequently been mentioned by the media as a possible candidate for president in 2016. On December 16, 2014, Bush announced he would explore the possibility of running for President.
Last year I planted a beautiful bush/tree in our backyard, cornus kousa. Sadly it did not bloom, so I was left to wonder about its beauty.
But this year I was not left to my imagination, for over a month now, it is blooming beautifully, I can hardly wait for the whole bush to grow bigger, its gonna be spectacular.
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The motor cavalcade carrying President George W. Bush arrives in 10 Downing Street, where the President had a social evening with the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, London, late Sunday, June, 15, 2008.
Bush
at Hollywood Palladium
Los Angeles, CA
January 19, 2023
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The Bush Tower, designed by the prominent architectural firm of Helmle & Corbett and built in 1916-18 was an influential prototype for set-back skyscrapers, even though it was designed prior to the adoption of the 1916 law mandating the set-back form; the setbacks of the Bush Tower were described by Corbett as a purely architectural and aesthetic solution.
Combining historical neo-Gothic detailing with a modem, pronounced vertical emphasis, the building represents an important intermediate stage in the development of the skyscraper. Secondary elevations finished with an innovative treatment of trompe l'oeil colored brick piers, and the engineering solutions for the tower-like steel-frame building erected on a very narrow plot were features of interest.
Built for the Bush Terminal Company, the Bush Terminal International Exhibit Building and Buyers Club, as the building was originally named, housed merchandise showrooms located for the convenience of out-of-town buyers in midtown Manhattan. Two ten-story wings facing 41st Street, also designed by Helmle & Corbett, continue the simplified neo-Gothic style of the thirty-story tower.
The design of the Bush Tower reflects an important intermediate stage in the development of the skyscraper, a transition from the historically inspired structures built prior to World War I and the post-war towers characterized by vertical articulation. The Bush Tower combines neo-Gothic ornamentation with a pronounced vertical emphasis.
The neo-Gothic street level facade was a refinement of an earlier design, more typical of the period, into a restrained statement where Gothic detailing supported another, more dominant design program. And although Corbett simplified prototypes, most notably the Woolworth Building , and made the Gothic elements enhance his emphasis on verticality, he had yet to take the step that Raymond Hood took in 1923 with the American Radiator Company Building in modernizing the neo-Gothic language.
The domination of historical ornamentation by a vertical emphasis also blurred the classically-inspired traditional division of the tower into thirds, and some vertical lines are carried from base to top. Piers at the street level were carried upward as ribs articulating the main shaft of the tower, and merged, into pinnacles in the Gothic detailing at the top of the building. In Corbett's words, "The whole mass of the building [was], of course, vertical, and everything possible in designing was done to accentuate this vertical ity."
Corbett saw his skyscraper as a "towering mass" with four sides, not an infill tower with one street facade. In 1926, in an article for the Saturday Evening Post, he described the design problem for the layman:
We wanted to make the structure a model for the tall, narrow building in the center of a city block. We were determined it should be a thing complete in itself, with fine, clean uprising lines; a building that could be looked at from every angle, sides and back as well as front, rather than a long peppermint box on end with holes punched in the sides for windows and a stray gumdrop on top by way of a water tank. ...Part of our scheme was an appropriate finish for the top which should give the entire building the appearance of a soaring cathedral tower.
In his three-dimensional approach to the building, the side elevations presented a design challenge; the decision had been made to build to the lot line which prevented the use of windows or projecting architectural elements. The solution, the use of trompe l'oeil piers of colored brick to divide the remaining wall area into vertical sections, was an often imitated device used by tall building designers in New York City. Corbett described the design process:
...the architects made drawings of the side walls as though the building stood free all round with plenty of room for reveals and projections. The drawing was then rendered to shadows at forty-five degrees, the shadows being in dark and the highlights in white. The drawings was then interpreted in brick of buff color for the general field, white for highlights, and black for shadows.
The Bush Tower was predicted, at the time of its construction, to be the last of the skyscrapers due to the adoption of the 1916 zoning ordinance. In fact, Corbett's design soon came to be regarded as a prototype of set-back design, a building of the future rather than of the past.
Although some of his contemporaries suspected that Corbett was thinking of forthcoming set-back requirements when he designed the Bush Tower, the set-back design was a visual choice. Corbett wrote:
The building [was] not, as sometimes supposed, the first example of the new set-back idea resulting from the New York Zoning law. Plans for the building were drawn before the law went into effect. The set-backs were conceived purely for architectural and aesthetic reasons.
...Cutting off six stories at the comers formed the first set-back; setting in the next three... on all sides formed the second. In such ways the building got its finish.
The set-back top story concealed the rooftop water tank and elevator housing unit. This was still a relatively novel idea, and Corbett later related a conversation during which an anonymous client asked:
Hm. What's that gadget on top? looks pretty fancy to me. Any office space in it? What? It contains the water tank and elevator machinery? Holy Smoke! Haven't you got all outdoors to put those things in?
The impact of the Bush Tower design upon an architectural community faced with set-back regulations was considerable. The editor of the American Architect suggested that "certain features of this important structure no doubt suggestively influenced the present
development of the stepped back type of tall buildings." Another observer pictured Corbett in his office on the top floor of the Bush Tower watching the fulfillment of his prophecy as additional set-back towers were constructed.
Many contemporary critics praised the Bush Tower for a variety of aesthetic and practical reasons. In 1926 the building was named "commercial building of the decade" by the American Architect.
That same year the noted architectural historian Talbot Hamlin wrote that the building strikes at the heart of modem sky-scraper design, accepts the problem in its entirety, even to the bare party walls and makes its effect by using precisely the necessary elements: extreme vertical ity to express steel structure, a polychromatic brick patterning of the party walls to make them contribute to the tower-like effect of the whole. At night, when floodlights set the delicate detail of the upper portions agleam, there arises the romance of anew American Beauty.
Corbett himself may have given the building the recognition it properly deserves by placing a photograph of the Bush Tower between those of the Woolworth Building and the Chicago Tribune Tbwer in his essay on architecture in Encyclopaedia Britannica. And in his article on the design of the American Radiator Company Building, Raymond Hood acknowledged the role of the Bush Tower in skyscraper development by citing the influence of Corbett, Goodhue and Saarinen in the advancement of
skyscraper design.
Description
The Bush Tower, a thirty-story building facing on 42nd Street and the ten-story wing extending from the tcwer to 41st Street, is of steel-frame construction with curtain walls of buff brick and terra cotta. The building was constructed by the Thompson-Starrett Company and the South Amboy Terra Cotta Company supplied the terra cotta.Low neighboring structures, and a plaza area to the east reveal all facades of the tcwer and two facades of the wing.
A system of primary and secondary angular ribs articulate the north and south facades of the tall portion of the building that rises unbroken from street level to the twentieth story. The original one-over-one double-hung windows have been replaced with similar units with transoms. Trcntpe l'oeil piers and panels created by the use of lighter and darker brick enrich the secondary elevation walls.
The east side wall is pierced by a one-bay by three-bay light court.
The limestone-faced street facade, the upper portion of which is unaltered, has a tripartite division of openings. Carvings in a nautical theme enrich the corbels, executed by John Donnelly & Co., Inc.,below the third-story simple cornice, punctuated with shields, a motif used in the terra-cotta detailing of the piers and spandrels in the two stories immediately above.
The two-story arched openings of the original design have been altered into square-headed openings framed by limestone-faced piers that join to the original ones above the mezzanine level.
At the top of the shaft, in a transitional area, a band of panels, which is continued unbroken with ribs screening the light court on the east facade, becomes a parapet wall at the comers. Copper lantern pinnacles top the wide, smooth brick piers that extend upward from the street to this height and finials top each rib extending through the parapet on the street facades.
The upper shaft area, above the twentieth story, has angled comer walls filled with paired windows. Ribs continuing up through the street facades resolve in an elongated arched window which is echoed by the edge of balustrade wall enclosing the area above.
The crowning pavilion is set back on all four sides, but repeats the elongated octagonal form of the upper shaft. Above the windows, framed to appear as two-story tall arched windows, blank Gothic tracery divides the roof parapet wall. The copper roof originally was topped by a pair of finials with electric torches at the ends of the gabled ridge.
The portion of the ten-story wing next to the tower is set back to create a light court. On the exposed east side wall of the main portion of the wing trompe l'oeil piers and a band of shield-enriched panels marking the eighth story repeat the design of the tower portion. The exposed portion of the west side wall is buff-colored brick with winders in the sixth and seventh stories.
The 41st Street facade is detailed as the tower facades with angled and flat ribs dividing the window bays. Above the eighth story windows framed by projecting transoms, the ninth story is recessed behind truncated pinnacles at the building comers. The walls of the further recessed tenth-story penthouse have closely-set windows. The limestone faced storefronts are both divided into thirds by piers which support a wide transom with blank Gothic tracery supported by corbel stops in a cast foliate design. The eastern portion of the facade has been covered in modem materials.
The western facade, a secondary entrance to the movie theater, ^^ appears to be the original design although no elevation drawings have been located. The central bay is framed by cast-stone faced piers from which quoins extend on the first story. This bay is nearly filled with wide, arched bronze doors with Gothic tracery slightly recessed in a deep Gothic arch. A shield-bearing lion guards the door in front of a cast-stone sheathed traceried arch which is tied into a blank Gothic tracery transom between the second and third stories. The outer bays have plain, double service doors topped with a cast-stone lintel.
Subsequent History
The lower floors of the building, initially the Buyers' Club, were occupied by the Hamilton Trust Company in the early 1920s and by the Old London Restaurant in 1931. The Bush Terminal Company lost the property to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1938 during foreclosure proceedings.
Alterations to the building have been limited to a series of street-level facade changes reflecting this changing use of the building, and to the insertion of windows between the trompe l'oeil piers in the side walls in 1939.
- From the 1988 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report