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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over 100 lives. In bills passed by Congress during its construction, it was referred to as the Hoover Dam, after President Herbert Hoover, but was named Boulder Dam by the Roosevelt administration. In 1947, the name Hoover Dam was restored by Congress.
Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water, and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium named Six Companies, Inc., which began construction in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques used were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule.
Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead and is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction, with 7 million tourists a year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened.
Source: hoover.archives.gov/hoovers/hoover-dam
85 years after its completion, Hoover dam is still considered an engineering marvel. It is named in honor of President Herbert Hoover, who played a crucial role in its creation.
For many years, residents of the American southwest sought to tame the unpredictable Colorado River. Disastrous floods during the early 1900’s led residents of the area to look to the federal government for aid, and experiments with irrigation on a limited scale had shown that this arid region could be transformed into fertile cropland, if only the river could be controlled. The greatest obstacle to the construction of such a dam was the allocation of water rights among the seven states comprising the Colorado River drainage basin. Meetings were held in 1918, 1919 and 1920, but the states could not reach a consensus.
Herbert Hoover had visited the Lower Colorado region in the years before World War I and was familiar with its problems and the potential for development. Upon becoming Secretary of Commerce in 1921, Hoover proposed the construction of a dam on the Colorado River. In addition to flood control and irrigation, it would provide a dependable supply of water for Los Angeles and Southern California. The project would be self-supporting, recovering its cost through the sale of hydroelectric power generated by the dam.
In 1921, the state legislatures of the Colorado River basin authorized commissioners to negotiate an interstate agreement. Congress authorized President Harding to appoint a representative for the federal government to serve as chair of the Colorado River Commission and on December 17, 1921, Harding appointed Hoover to that role.
When the commission assembled in Santa Fe in November 1922, the seven states still disagreed over the fair distribution of water. The upstream states feared that the downstream states, with their rapidly developing agricultural and power demands, would quickly preempt rights to the water by the “first in time, first in right” doctrine. Hoover suggested a compromise that the water be divided between the upper and lower basins without individual state quotas. The resulting Colorado River Compact was signed on November 24, 1922. It split the river basin into upper and lower halves with the states within each region deciding amongst themselves how the water would be allocated.
A series of bills calling for Federal funding to build the dam were introduced by Congressman Phil D. Swing and Senator Hiram W. Johnson between 1922 and 1928, all of which were rejected. The last Swing-Johnson bill, titled the Boulder Canyon Project Act, was largely written by Hoover and Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work. Congress finally agreed, and the bill was signed into law on December 21, 1928 by President Coolidge. The dream was about to become reality.
On June 25, 1929, less than four months after his inauguration, President Herbert Hoover signed a proclamation declaring the Colorado River Compact effective at last. Appropriations were approved and construction began in 1930. The dam was dedicated in 1935 and the hydroelectric generators went online in 1937. In 1947, Congress officially "restored" Hoover's name to the dam, after FDR's Secretary of the Interior tried to remove it. Hoover Dam was built for a cost of $49 million (approximately $1 billion adjusted for inflation). The power plant and generators cost an additional $71 million, more than the cost of the dam itself. The sale of electrical power generated by the dam paid back its construction cost, with interest, by 1987.
Today the Hoover Dam controls the flooding of the Colorado River, irrigates more than 1.5 million acres of land, and provides water to more than 16 million people. Lake Mead supports recreational activities and provides habitats to fish and wildlife. Power generated by the dam provides energy to power over 500,000 homes. The Hoover Compromise still governs how the water is shared.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Nevada) "نيفادا" "内华达州" "नेवादा" "ネバダ" "네바다" "Невада"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Hoover Dam) "سد هوفر" "胡佛水坝" "हूवर बांध" "フーバーダム" "후버 댐" "Гувера" "Presa Hoover"
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest
Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about 525 square kilometres (203 square miles). Budapest, which is both a city and municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of 7,626 square kilometres (2,944 square miles) and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary.
The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the region entered a new age of prosperity, with Pest-Buda becoming a global city after the unification of Buda, Óbuda and Pest on 17 November 1873, with the name 'Budapest' given to the new capital. Budapest also became the co-capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a great power that dissolved in 1918, following World War I. The city was the focal point of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Battle of Budapest in 1945, as well as the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Budapest is a global city with strengths in commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. Budapest is Hungary's financial centre. Budapest hosts the headquarters of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, the European Police College and the first foreign office of the China Investment Promotion Agency. Over 40 colleges and universities are located in Budapest, including Eötvös Loránd University, Corvinus University, Semmelweis University, University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Opened in 1896, the city's subway system, the Budapest Metro, serves 1.27 million, while the Budapest Tram Network serves 1.08 million passengers daily.
The central area of Budapest along the Danube is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has several notable monuments of classical architecture, including the Hungarian Parliament and the Buda Castle. The city also has around 80 geothermal springs, the largest thermal water cave system, second largest synagogue, and third largest Parliament building in the world. Budapest attracts around 12 million international tourists per year, making it a highly popular destination in Europe.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(Hungary) "المجر" "匈牙利" "Hongrie" "Ungarn" "הונגריה" "हंगरी" "ハンガリー" "헝가리" "Венгрия" "Hungría"
(Budapest) "بودابست" "布达佩斯" "בודפשט" "बुडापेस्ट" "ブダペスト" "부다페스트" "Будапешт"
(Europe) Europa "European Union" "أوروبا" "欧洲" "אירופה" "यूरोप" "ヨーロッパ" "유럽" "Европа"
Source: Sold on Ebay via BIN for $99.99 Jan. 2012.
Fruits of Industry
Points and Pictures Along the Central Railroad of Georgia.
Through two States, Georgia and Alabama
AUTHOR Photos by O. Pierre Havens. Text by Pleasant A. Stovall.
PUBLISHER
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COPYRIGHT Issued by the Passenger Department of the Central Railroad of Georgia System. Copyright 1895 for the Central Railroad of Georgia by J. C. Haile, general Passenger Agent
SIZE and ATTRIBUTES
Softcover book book. 10" x 7", Unnumbered pages, cover-to-cover photographs in black-and-white
CONDITION
Acceptable. Cover worn. Cellophane tape along spine, with part of spine paper missing. Covers are loose from body, and the last page is loose.
COMMENTS
Despite the condition issues this book presents, this is a hard-to-find Souvenir of both the Cotton States and International Exposition held in Atlanta, Georgia from September 18 to December 31, 1896, and of the Central Railroad of Georgia (which changed its name to Central of Georgia Railway Company on November 1, 1895.)
An entry in the American Magazine described this book this way:
Under the auspices of the Central Railroad of Georgia is published a book of value and high artistic excellence, entitled "Fruits of Industry." It contains nearly a hundred half-tone photographic views of interesting points on the line through the two States of Georgia and Alabama, whit descriptive text and statistical information by Pleasant A Stovall.
Some of the views found in this book include a map of the Central RR of Georgia, views from Savannah wharf, Eagle and Phenix Mills, Columbus GA; Peach tree farms with workers; Atlanta capitol; Acme Brewing Company, Macon, GA;; Mercer University, Macon, GA; Albany Fertilizer Co, Albany GA; Cuthbert Fair; Cotton Mill, Bibb Manufacturing, Macon; Steamship off Pier 35; Corn and Cotton near Marshallville, GA; White Hickory Wagon Works, Atlanta; Coosa Tunnel of the Columbus & Western Railroad; Troy Spoke and Handle Factory, Troy, Alabama; Old Capitol, Milledgeville, GA;; State Lunatic Asylum, Milledgeville; Bacon and Son's Lumber Mill, Savannah; Experiment Station near Griffin, GA; Barnesville Buggy Company; Georgia Chemical Works, Augusta; Plum orchard at Vineyard, GA' Savannah Water Works; truck farm near Savannah; Eufaula Oil and Fertilizer Co, ; Montgomery Brewing Co, Montgomery, AL; Scott's Jerseys near Montgomery; Savannah cotton mills; peeling peaches at Gray's Canning Factory, Fort Valley, GA; Chewalla Cotton Mills, Eufaula, AL; Weslyan Female College, Macon, GA; Furman Farm Improvement Co., Atlanta; Maj. Ryals' Plantation, Savannah; Atlanta Guano Co.; Fertilizer works, Comer, Hull & Co.; Coosa River Railroad Bridge; Naval stores wharf of Central Railroad at Savannah; Confederate Obelisk on the Augusta Canal; First Baptist Church, Troy; shipping melons at Dietzen's Crossing; Lummus cotton gin works, Juniper, GA; Old Executive Mansion, Milledgeville GA; Swift Manufacturing Co., Columbus, GA; Opelika Milling Co.; Georgia Cotton Oil Col Macon; Rossdale Jersey Farm, Opelika; Union Springs Cotton Mills; Sample Lumber Co., Hollins, AL; Fox Henderson residence, Troy AL; Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co near Birmingham, AL; Georgia Normal and Industrial College; Visscher's Vineyard, Fort Valley, GA; Howard-Harrison Iron Co. near Birmingham, AL; Americus Guano Co; turpentine farm;; City Mills Company, Columbus GA; Ocean Steamship Co's Wharf, Savannah; Coweta Fertilizer Co. Newnan, GA; Andrew Female College, Cuthbert; Griffin Manufacturing, Griffin; Sibley Manufacturing Co., Augusta; Chattahoochee River Bridge near Eufaula, AL; New England and Savannah Steamship Co's wharf, Boston; Horticultural Fair, Cuthbert; Gordon Institute, Barnesville; Southern Cotton Oil Co, Atlanta; Hamberger Mills and Electric Co., Columbus; Oden's Mills; State Capitol at Montgomery AL; the John P. King Cotton Mill, Augusta; view of the Augusta Canal; residence of peach king near Marshallville, GA; Exposition Cotton Mils, Atlanta; peach carnival in Macon GA; Gate City Oil Co., Atlanta; Central Park, Cuthbert; Enterprise Manufacturing Co., Augusta; Confederate Monument at Montgomery; Fort Valley Crate Factory; Offices of Central Railroad of Georgia in Savannah; Augusta Brewing Co; Crescent Mills Augusta; Peach packing house near Fort Valley, GA; Washington Street, Albany GA; a mile of pear trees Marshallville, GA; Eagle and Phenix Mills and Water Power, Columbus, GA; loading peaches and melons in GA; Jasper Monument and Hotel De Soto, Savannah; Windsor Park, Americus, GA; watermelon party at Fort Gaines, GA; public buildings and government posts Augusta adn Atlanta; Hotel Tybee, Tybee Island.
Source: Digital image.
Album: WIL04.
Date: c1905.
Photographer: William Hooper.
HOOPER COLLECTION COPYRIGHT P.A. Williams.
Repository: From the collection of Mr P. Williams.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Source: scan of an original image.
Grid: SU1483.
Date: 1953.
Copyright/photographer: OS-Crown.
Used here by permission.
Repository: Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
The Acqua Felice is one of the aqueducts of Rome, completed in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V, whose birth name, which he never fully abandoned, was Felice Peretti. The first new aqueduct of Early Modern Rome, its source is at the springs at Pantano Borghese, off Via Casilina. Its length is fifteen miles (24 km), running underground for eight miles (13 km) from its source, first in the channel of Aqua Alexandrina, then alternating on the arches of the Aqua Claudia and the Aqua Marcia for seven miles (11 km) to its terminus at the Fontana dell'Acqua Felice on the Quirinal Hill, standing to one side of the Strada Pia, so as to form a piazza in this new part of Rome. The engineer was Giovanni Fontana, brother of Sixtus' engineer-architect Domenico Fontana, who recorded that the very day the new pope entered the Lateran, he decided that he would bring water once again to the healthful hills of Rome, which had remained waterless and sparsely inhabited, largely by monasteries, since the Roman aqueducts had been destroyed in the sixth century. From the source, which Sixtus purchased, there was only a very small fall, and the work required an underground conduit as well as an aqueduct carried on arches. The work was completed within eighteen months, at the same time that Sixtus was engaged in laying out the street plan that would provide the arteries of modern Rome. By October 1586, water was running at his Villa Montalto, and by 1589 it was filling no less than twenty-seven public fountains. The three-arched Fontana dell'Acqua Felice (designed by Domenico Fontana, 1587) marked the entry of the new water source into Rome, with the conventional mostra or showy terminus: "what makes a fountain a mostra is not essentially its size or splendor, but its specific designation as the fountain that is a public memorial to the whole achievement of the aqueduct. Even in the seventeenth century this fountain was considered as being in very bad style (pessimo stile)," Siegfried Giedion reporter "and it is scarcely conceivable that such mediocrity was possible only two decades after the death of Michelangelo". Its disproportionately large attic, a billboard for the triumphant inscription, has an unbalanced stagey flatness; its proportions may be unfavorably compared to the Arco Scalette, Vicenza, erected in 1576, probably designed by Andrea Palladio. Arco Salette, Vicenza, 1576, attributed to Andrea Palladio, for comparison.The allegories are resolutely Biblical, avoiding classical pagan allusions in publicising the modern pope who demolished the Septizonium to make way for his avenues linking the major Christian monuments of Rome, the pilgrimage basilicas. Any mostra had its practical aspect in providing public water supply for its rione (the city's administrative areas). The marble basins, flanked by Egyptian lions that spit water, served as reservoirs for local inhabitants; marble barriers keep animals from polluting the water: for them there is a special basin nearby. Next to the fountain Sixtus installed two long basins for washing laundry, and a covered washhouse where women might enjoy privacy.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis
St. Louis is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers, on the western bank of the latter. As of 2020, the city proper had a population of around 301,500, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which extends into Illinois, had an estimated population of over 2.8 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, the second-largest in Illinois, the seventh-largest in the Great Lakes Megalopolis, and the 20th-largest in the United States.
Before European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. St. Louis was founded on February 14, 1764, by French fur traders Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, who named it for Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain. In 1800, it was retroceded to France, which sold it three years later to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase; the city was then the point of embarkation for the Corps of Discovery on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In the 19th century, St. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River; from 1870 until the 1920 census, it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. St. Louis had a brief run as a world-class city in the early 20th century. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
A "Gamma" global city with a metropolitan GDP of more than $160 billion in 2017, metropolitan St. Louis has a diverse economy with strengths in the service, manufacturing, trade, transportation, and tourism industries. It is home to nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri. Major companies headquartered or with significant operations in the city include Ameren Corporation, Peabody Energy, Nestlé Purina PetCare, Anheuser-Busch, Wells Fargo Advisors, Stifel Financial, Spire, Inc., MilliporeSigma, FleishmanHillard, Square, Inc., U.S. Bank, Anthem BlueCross and Blue Shield, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Centene Corporation, and Express Scripts.
Major research universities include Saint Louis University and Washington University in St. Louis. The Washington University Medical Center in the Central West End neighborhood hosts an agglomeration of medical and pharmaceutical institutions, including Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
St. Louis has three professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, and the St. Louis BattleHawks of the newly formed XFL. In 2019, the city was awarded a Major League Soccer franchise, St. Louis City SC, which is expected to begin play upon the completion of a 22,500-seat stadium in the city's Downtown West neighborhood in 2023. Among the city's notable sights is the 630-foot (192 m) Gateway Arch in the downtown area. St. Louis is also home to the St. Louis Zoo and the Missouri Botanical Garden, which has the second-largest herbarium in North America.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Louis_Science_Center
The Saint Louis Science Center, founded as a planetarium in 1963, is a collection of buildings including a science museum and planetarium in St. Louis, Missouri, on the southeastern corner of Forest Park. With over 750 exhibits in a complex of over 300,000 square feet (28,000 m2), it is among the largest of its type in the United States.
Photo by: Boris Jordan (Germany)
Location: Rhenish Hesse (Rhineland-Palatinate)
WMO 2021 Calendar Competition Entries
Source: Scan of an original black & white postcard.
Set: HAL01.
Date: ND.
From the collection of Mr. Neal H. Adair.
Used here by their very kind permission.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
The light source is made of two boards.
The larger board supports 12x green 3W led and 9x violet 3W leds
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Source: Signs of the Times Magazine
August 1946 issue
Page 65
Featured signs are the:
State Theatre, San Diego
Richfield Oil Tower, Los Angeles
Mobilgas, Los Angeles
Coca Cola Weather Bird, Bakersfield
Kimball & Stone Drugs, Bakersfield
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Source: scan of a photograph in our image collection.
Image: LA216
Photographer: unknown
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Repository: Local History Centre, Gundry Lane, Bridport
Materials: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 80.5 x 109 cm. Sold by Christie's, Amsterdam, on October 27, 1998, lot 253/sale 2391. Source: artmight.com/Artists/Weissenbruch-Jan-Hendrik/Weissenbruc...(mode)/search/(keyword)/jan+weissenbruch
Source: Digital image.
Set: SHE01.
Date: 1989.
Photographer: © 1989 Mr D. Sheppard.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Source: Digital image.
Album: WIL04.
Date: c1910.
Photographer: William Hooper.
HOOPER COLLECTION COPYRIGHT P.A. Williams.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/1645
This photograph is from the archives of the Coalfields Heritage Group, based at the Sir Edgeworth David Memorial Museum at Kurri Kurri. It was scanned by Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
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Source: Digital image.
Album: WIL04.
Date: c1910.
Photographer: William Hooper.
HOOPER COLLECTION COPYRIGHT P.A. Williams.
Repository: From the collection of Mr P. Williams.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Images from the 2013 edition Sensation "Source Of Light" Belgium.
March 9th, 2013
Ethias Arena, Hasselt. Belgium
Client: ID&T Belgium
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