Fire Destroys House Miss Maudie Atkinson’s house was destroyed in a deadly fire on December 15th. The first snowfall had fallen for the first time since 1885. School was cancelled for the day and the kids spent their day playing outside and building snowmen. Early the next morning‚ at about 1:00 a.m.‚ the neighborhood was ablaze. Everyone rushed outside to find Miss Maudie’s house on fire. The men of the neighborhood rushed to help get Miss Maudie and some of her precious items out
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If possible‚ keep your hands above your head while you bend. Avoid stairs Never go to the stairs as this is the first part of a building to be damaged. Even if they are not destroyed by the earthquake‚ they may well collapse with the weight of panicking people attempting to flee down them. Avoid the bottom floor The higher you are in a building the less weight will be crushing down upon you and the safer you will be. Avoid doorways Everyone who tries to shelter under doorways
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a dimly lit clearing‚ the overhang so impenetrable that there were no shadows. Blackthorn stood in silence‚ his eyes could barely discern the outline of a small‚ narrow building peeking out from under clusters of tall ferns obviously thriving from the swampy terrain. Suddenly‚ he let out a gasp as the horror hit him. The building was strapped in chains. The next day the troops were called back. There was nothing to loot. Blackthorn knew‚ it was just a wasteland. Walking down the corridor of Evalesco’s
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Detroit is a very architecturally rich and diverse place to live‚ with humble beginnings back in the 1670’s. Mr. Austin Black grew up in Detroit and was always fascinated by the architecture and surrounding buildings. Over the years he has watched as allot of the rich heritage and buildings decline and become abandoned. In turn it has inspired him to become a real estate broker and open his own business in the attempts to give back to the community. In Mr. Black’s words‚ “The city is now going through
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Q- Town planning is a science as well as art ? Town planning is a science as well as art .The art and science of ordering the use of land and sitting of buildings and communication routes so as to secure the maximum practicable degree of economy‚ convenience and beauty within available resources and time frame. If all artistic sense is forgotten in planning we start to build places that lack culture. Sure we can add an institution that may bring culture to that area‚ but the area itself lacks
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London Fire not to have happened? Probably‚ but the advancements in urban building code‚ and the interest in the development of firefighting equipment have contributed to the greater good‚ and perhaps prevented a more catastrophic event. Through the 18th and 19th centuries‚ many changes came about to help the prevention or containment of building fires. As building engineering progressed‚ popular flammable building materials were replaced with non-flammable steel and concrete. Urban engineering
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luxury of early morning coffee‚ couldn’t hang their feet off the bed before taking the first morning step and the idea of a hot shower had not even been dreamed up yet. They had Mammoth Skin‚ bark‚ or deer hide to covering there head. When it came to building dwellings‚ there were pictures to get ideas from‚ no blue prints to follow and they couldn’t walk around the neighborhood and see what the Johnson’s were doing. When mankind stopped living in caves they couldn’t call up the nearest construction
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Medical School in 1884. Wealthy‚ well-educated and refined‚ the young doctor moved to Chicago where he became the owner of a drugstore‚ and eventually opened a hotel. His design of the building reflected Holmes’s desires to hide bodies‚ and clothing within the basement of the building to cover his crime. Later‚ the building was destroyed as a death chamber. Holmes wanted his hotel‚ “just comfortable enough and cheap enough to lure a certain kind of clientele and convincing enough to justify a large fire
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lives lost in Haiti. From a geographical standpoint‚ the town of Léogâne was at the epicenter‚ of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake‚ the United Nations claims that this was “the worst affected area” with notable damage occurring to approximately 90% of the buildings in the area‚ and over 20‚000 lives lost. (Millar‚ 2010). According to the Medical Examiners and Coroners investigating the earthquake
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safe and efficient movement of people and goods. .. Related Stories Researchers Building Lightweight "Bridge For The 21st Century" (January 28‚ 1999) — The bridge of the 21st century won’t be made of concrete and steel‚ but of strong‚ lightweight materials equipped with electronic and optical sensors that warn engineers of any potential ... > read more Wireless Nano Sensors Could Save Bridges‚ Buildings (April 12‚ 2010) — Could inexpensive wireless sensors based on nanotechnology be used
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