Underpinning is a method used to increase foundation depth or repairing faulty foundations. This might be the case if you plan to add stories to an existing structure or when the foundation has been damaged. One visible sign that your building needs underpinning are cracks appearance. When a building needs a foundation repair some cracks‚ especially wider than ¼ inch appear visible‚ meaning than an underpinning needs to be done. Foundation failures could also be considered as heaved foundations‚
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Winifred Mary Beard‚ The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found. Cambridge. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press‚ 2008. 360 pages. Maps‚ photographs‚ illustrations‚ bibliography‚ index. Born in England 1955‚ Winifred Mary Beard‚ after finishing an all-girls high school‚ attained both a Bachelors and Doctorate from King’s College‚ in Cambridge. She married historian Robin Cormack‚ with whom she had two children. Her many accolades include; Professor of Classics at Cambridge University
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Culture of Gandhara Civilization Gandhara is the region that now comprise of Peshawar valley‚ Mardan‚ Swat‚ Dir‚ Malakand‚ and Bajuaur agencies in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)‚ Taxila in the Punjab‚ and up to Jalalabad in Afghanistan. It is in this region that the Gandhara civilization emerged and became the cradle of Buddhism. It was from here that Buddhism spread towards east as far away as Japan and Korea. The intriguing record of Gandhara civilization‚ discovered in the 20th century
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In 1877‚ the same French entrepreneurs‚ who had created the Suez Canal‚ turned their attention to Panama. A misguided attempt to dig a sea-level canal not only drove up costs up to £217 million‚ but the dirt piled up on the sides of the excavation created malarial swamps that sent death rates up ending over 22.000 workers lives before the project was cancelled in 1888 after the French canal company went bankrupt‚ nearly dragging the French economy down with it (The big ditch‚ page 61). During the
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In the 6th Century B.C.E‚ a man named Siddhartha Gautama was born. As a young Prince‚ a holy man gave the prophecy that Siddhartha would either be an amazing spiritual leader or a ruthless military conqueror. Preferring the latter‚ his father‚ King Suddhodana‚ raised Siddhartha in a world devoid of any religion or suffering. As most humans‚ Prince Siddhartha developed a wandering curiosity of the hidden world. The King allowed Siddhartha to leave‚ but he carved a path that only had specific people
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I think that invasive species are invaders. An invasive species are living organisms that are non-native species in particular environment. In other words‚ it is an imported species that has a tendency to spread and is capable of damaging the environment‚ the human economy and human health. Some of these invasive creatures have caused the extinction of whole species and have caused irreparable damage to the surrounding ecosystem. For example‚ alien insects‚ organisms‚ plants cause damage to crops
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Cahokia Mounds at one time‚ was the largest prehistoric settlement north of Mexico. The people were known for their corn crops‚ which increased the population. They were a major social‚ political‚ religious and economic influence on the other tribes in the region. Once a major city‚ now in ruins. It’s demise has left both historians and archaeologists scratching their heads. What made Cahokia so great‚ and what caused it to disappear? Cahokia Mounds was the largest prehistoric settlement north
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INTRODUCTION: The Citadel of Buhen was built on the west of the Nile spread over 150 meters. Buhen Fortress had a mixture of interesting features‚ including “moats carved three meters deep into bedrock‚ revetments‚ drawbridges‚ bastions‚ buttresses‚ ramparts‚ battlements‚ embrasures‚ loopholes‚ and catapult stations” (Craig‚ Alan Sherman‚ William R.Will‚ Jeffrey D.‚ 2009‚ Introduction Section‚ p.227‚ para.1). The citadel was built along the Nile‚ and each built was near enough to be seen by a human
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Pompeii and Herculaneum Exam Responses Using Source C and your own knowledge‚ what were three important features 3 of household religion at Pompeii and Herculaneum? (3) Household religion pervaded Pompeii and Herculaneum‚ forming a significant component of citizens’ lives. The foremost feature of private worship was the lararium‚ demonstrated in Source C‚ an elaborate (as in the source) or basic shrine used to honour the lares‚ household gods. Secondly‚ the genius of the paterfamilias‚ the generating
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1720s on. Beginning in the 1760s‚ Neoclassicism arose‚ reached its height in the 1780s and ‘90s during the French Revolution and lasted until about the 1850s. Neoclassicism was impacted by the exploration and excavation of the buried Roman cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii; the excavations of which began in 1738 and 1748‚ respectively. It was because of these “new” discoveries that people wanted to revive the past and took interest in the classical forms and ideas that started the neoclassical era
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