Greenpoint Greenpoint‚ Brooklyn is a culturally vibrant neighborhood full of a wide range of retail shops‚ restaurants‚ bars & venues‚ banks‚ and other services. It is largely occupied by people of Polish descent (43.6% according to the 2000 Census) and of Hispanic descent (19.2%.) The median income is $33‚578‚ significantly lower than the corresponding national average of $41‚994. Even with the median income in Greenpoint being almost $10‚000 less than the national average‚ it has many of the
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Padma Bridge 1 Padma Bridge Padma Multipurpose Bridge Carries Crosses Locale Maintained by Designer Design Material Total length Width Motor vehicles‚ Railway Padma River Louhajong‚ Munshiganj to Shariatpur and Madaripur Bangladesh Bridge Authority Maunsell AECOM Truss bridge Steel 6‚150 m (20‚180 ft) 21.1 m (69 ft) Bangladesh Construction begin expected in 2013 Construction end Coordinates expected in 2016 23°25′21″N 90°18′35″E The Padma Bridge is a multipurpose road-rail bridge across
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8:50am Black History Assignment Ruby Bridges Born on September 8‚ 1954‚ in Tylertown‚ Mississippi‚ Ruby Bridges was 6 when she became the first African-American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school‚ having to be escorted to class by her mother and U.S. marshals due to violent mobs. Bridges’ bravery paved the way for continued Civil Rights action and she’s shared her story with future generations in educational forums. Ruby Nell Bridges was born on September 8‚ 1954‚ in Tylertown
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INTRODUCTION Problems: People of Chorao are facing lot of problems due to lack of bridge. Ferry service is available till 2.00 am and if there is any medical emergency‚ people have to face lot of problems. It is noticed that many women’s at the time of their pregnancy had stayed outside Chorao with fear. A long queue is found waiting for ferry. There are lots of fights amongst the people. Many people from Bicholim‚ Mayem sides use this ferry for coming to Panjim. One can see fights between villagers
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Bridge Write Up The problem that we have is we need to find a bridge that will fill a gap that is 12" long‚ and 2.5" wide. Our objective is to build a bridge that can hold up to 2.5kg at the most. The bridge must have a length at least 3inches‚ and a width of 2.5inches. Some constraints that we have are no more than 10% of the bridge may consist of "bulky" members made from two pieces of balsa wood. We can only use 15 pieces of balsa wood‚ and if we use string it has to be attached in a simple
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A Wheatstone bridge is an electrical circuit used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit‚ one leg of which includes the unknown component. Its operation is similar to the original potentiometer. It was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie in 1833 and improved and popularized by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1843. One of the Wheatstone bridge’s initial uses was for the purpose of soils analysis and comparison.[1] -------------------------------------------------
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The River as Bridge At the beginning of the new millennium urban populations outnumbered that of rural populations for the first time in history. Urban areas have long had connotations of being harmful to our environment and the people living in them are often seen as either careless or oblivious in regards to maintaining their surrounding environment; most notably the rivers that flow through their cities. The Trinity River begins in North Texas and flows all the way to the Gulf of Mexico; it flows
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Bonus Bridge Paper Transportation is key in today’s society. It’s all about getting from one place to another in the quickest way possible. The inconvenience of going around something or going directly through can be tiring and can take up a lot of time. That’s where bridges come in. A bridge is a structure carrying a road‚ path or railroad across bodies of water‚ other roads or any object that may be an obstacle. Although there are many different types of bridges‚ they all deal with compressible
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Suspension bridge – A parabola What is meant by suspension bridge? A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (the load-bearing portion) is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan‚ where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century‚ this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century. Bridges without vertical suspenders have a long history in many mountainous parts of the world. Structure of suspension bridge – This
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The very first bridges were made by nature itself‚ as simple as a log fallen across a stream or stones in the river. The first bridges made by humans were probably spans of cut wooden logs or planks and eventually stones‚ using a simple support and crossbeam arrangement. Some early Americans used trees or bamboo poles to cross small caverns or wells to get from one place to another. A common form of lashing sticks‚ logs‚ and branches together involved the use of long reeds or other harvested fibers
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