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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 Sicily ; Andrea Camilleri's food-mad sleuth is Italy's most famous cop, and one of the nation's leading cultural exports. PETER POPHAM meets his creator in Rome
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/5/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...out of the ground to make way for a new villa, still under construction. In his fury, he scales the villa's gate, finds a sledgehammer...was a squadrista, a hard-line Fascist. 'The Jews are just like us,' he roared. That was my father. And I've always tried...
CORNERSHOT
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 6/26/2009; ; 373 words ; ...museum was still under construction? You could watch them...making projects in such cultural epicentres as Chatanooga...Roanoke, Virginia." Just like us, they've put up a webcam to monitor the construction of the building. Take...
Profile: Israeli troops guard a Jewish settlement in West Bank
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/16/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...land looming over their commercial and cultural center, Ramallah. (Soundbite of footsteps...one, right in there, the one under construction. The first week, they shot in the...fighting their war of independence, just like us in 1948.' But listening, Lieutenant...
`SOPRANOS' A TOUGH CREW.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/19/2001; 700+ words ; ...raped in a parking-lot stairwell; a construction worker got brained by a golf-club...than 11 million viewers. It's made cultural icons of Tony and Carmela Soprano...The Sopranos'' characters may seem just like us, they are, in fact, monsters. There...
NO GOOD FELLAS ON `SOPRANOS'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/17/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...raped in a parking-lot stairwell; a construction worker got brained by a golf-club...rated show in HBO history. It's made cultural icons of Tony and Carmela Soprano...The Sopranos" characters may seem just like us, they are, in fact, monsters. There...