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	Croydon Croydon outer borough (1991 pop. 299,600) of Greater London, SE England. It is London's second largest shopping and cultural center after West End. London's first airport, the Croydon Aerodrome, was constructed there in 1915 but closed in 1959 after Heathrow was built. Scientific instruments, inter... Read more
	arch arch the spanning of a wall opening by means of separate units (such as bricks or stone blocks) assembled into an upward curve that maintains its shape and stability through the mutual pressure of a load and the separate pieces. The weight of the supported load is thus converted into downward and o... Read more
	turnpike turnpike road paid for partly or wholly by fees collected from travelers at tollgates. It derives its name from the hinged bar that prevented passage through such a gate until the toll was paid. See also road . Development of Turnpike Roads In England tollgates were first authorized by l... Read more
	George Willis Ritchey George Willis Ritchey 1864-1945, American astronomer, b. Meigs co., Ohio, studied at the Univ. of Cincinnati (1883-84, 1886-87). He was superintendent of instrument construction (1899-1904) at Yerkes Observatory and then (1905-9) was associated with the Solar Observatory of Carnegie Institution. Fr... Read more
	Perth Perth city (1991 pop. 1,018,702), capital of Western Australia, SW Australia, on the Swan River estuary. Fremantle is Perth's port. Perth is a communications and transportation center and the state's financial, commercial, and cultural hub. The suburbs of Fremantle, Kwinana, and Welshpool have heav... Read more
	cofferdam cofferdam temporary barrier for excluding water from an area that is normally submerged. Made commonly of wood, steel, or concrete sheet piling (see pile ), cofferdams are used in constructing the foundations of dams, bridges, and similar subaqueous structures and for temporary drydocks. If double... Read more
	Aberystwyth Aberystwyth , town (1991 pop. 10,250), Ceredigion, W Wales, on Cardigan Bay. It is a summer resort and cultural center. Before the construction of railroads, Aberystwyth was a coastal trading center. The town is the seat of a constituent institution of the Univ. of Wales and of the National Library ... Read more
	Ames Ames city (1990 pop. 47,198), Story co., central Iowa, on the Skunk River; inc. 1870. Its chief manufactures are electronic, water-analysis, and water-treatment equipment; motor vehicles; construction materials; and machinery. Iowa State Univ. is located in Ames and contributes significantly to the... Read more
	Fort Sam Houston Fort Sam Houston U.S. army base, 3,300 acres (1,335 hectares), S Tex., in San Antonio; headquarters of the Fifth Army. San Antonio, long a military center, donated land in 1870 for the site of a permanent military post that was constructed from 1876 to 1890 and named for Gen. Sam Houston. The famou... Read more
	Sir William Cornelius Van Horne Sir William Cornelius Van Horne 1843-1915, president (1888-99) and chairman of the board (1899-1915) of the Canadian Pacific Railway, b. Illinois. He worked on U.S. railways before becoming (1881), on the recommendation of James J. Hill, general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He supervise... Read more

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	Once Upon a Time in America: Sergio Leone and the construction of myth. Magazine article from: CineAction; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...genre. The film bombards us with a string of cliches...is using an archetypal cultural genre in order to examine the impact of American cultural myth on American society...themes to their larger cultural context and to the genre...and is the predominant cultural figure that we ... Read more
	Changes in environmental forces drive mold growth.(Inside Construction) Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 5/5/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...projects and litigation in the US presented by the experts at...result of reactions to the cultural and natural environment around...was also a reflection of the cultural environment in which it existed...of Philadelphia do not look like those in Philadelphia, in part...mansions of Albany do not ... Read more
	Gottesdiener inspired by great teachers of architecture.(Profile in Construction & Design) Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 5/26/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...the amount of diversity and cultural things you have in front of you, you just can't help being influenced...Gottesdiener followed her. He was just pounding the pavement looking...for a year, see what it was like to be in a place that did big...me, Gottesdiener said. They just gave me ... Read more
	Appetite for construction.(Essay) Magazine article from: The National Interest; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...can accomplish anything like what the phrase nation-buildi...attributes that states like ours are increasingly...in-depth political and cultural knowledge--not just familiarity with language...commonly held beliefs make us persist in engaging in...upon a Hill , we also like the ... Read more
	Hangar Design Group, where ideas take flight.(Profile in Construction and Design) Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 12/3/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...creative energies, brought us here. The Flatiron building...knows the building that looks like a triangle. Hangar Design Group...more subtle changes in social cultural goals; this perspective fuels...aspects of our services, making us able to respond to all of our...surprisingly well in America is ... Read more
	MTA swaps Venice lot for construction of new facility.(Real State) Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 1/12/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...hasn't approached us yet, said Sandy Kievman...director of community and cultural services for Santa...2003 vacancies were just 1 percent, versus...found that tenants like low-density properties...on about 12 acres just north of the Marina...Corp. and Nike Inc. I like the Westside, ... Read more
	When government shrugs lessons of Katrina.(construction work by Federal Emergency Management Agency)(Cover story) Magazine article from: The Progressive; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...anticipating what conditions would be like around town but feeling relieved...result of the storm. They seemed like Midwestern church ladies, though...happening to those people? to the I just don't know why they didn't...out their one-size-fits-all cultural exceptionalism. People down...them to an ... Read more
	Reckoning Words: Baconian Science and the Construction of Truth in English Renaissance Culture.(Book Review) Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...theory that purports to inform us about the eternal inner workings...of fact be all too much the culturally-specific product of (for example...Renaissance literature for just these psychoanalytic perspectives...circulation to a circle of like-minded initiates of the psychoanalytic...them (a few ... Read more
	Construction manager broadens its scope. (Lehrer McGovern Bovis Inc.) (company profile) Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 10/23/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...said Levy. The museum and cultural division was responsible for...Island. The people we have like that, Levy said. When you have...focus, you attract people that like that. Levy himself, who joined...playing by their own rules, are just not going to make it. Competition...technologies, Levy said, ... Read more
	UO builds community with new longhouse.(Higher Education)(The construction project brings together the hands of many tribes and traditions) Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 6/23/2003; 700+ words ; ...to their cultures. It allows us to have a place of dignity where...longhouse also will be an important cultural link for American Indians, a...of his graduate studies. It's like being at home, he said. If there...for all Native Americans, not just our tribe. Bettles said knowing... Read more