------------------------------------------------- Bixby Creek Bridge Bixby Creek Bridge‚ also known as Bixby Bridge‚ is a reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch bridge in Big Sur‚ California. The bridge is located 120 miles (190 km) south of San Francisco and 13 miles (21 km) south of Carmel in Monterey County along California Highway One. Prior to the opening of the bridge in 1932‚ residents of the Big Sur area were virtually cut off during winter due to the often impassable Old Coast Road that
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MOUNTAIN RANGES By length * Mid-ocean ridge - 65‚000 km (40‚389 mi)[1] * Andes - over 7‚000 km (4‚350 mi) * Rocky Mountains - 4‚800 km (2‚983 mi) * Himalayas - approximately 3‚800 km (2‚361 mi)[citation needed] * Great Dividing Range - 3‚700 km (2‚299 mi) * Transantarctic Mountains - 3‚500 km (2‚175 mi) By Continent Asia * * Alborz (Iran) * Al Hajar Mountains (Oman‚ UAE) * Altai Mountains (Russia‚ China‚ Mongolia‚ Kazakhstan) * Annamite Range (Laos
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|the Buffalo Creek Disaster | | | A book by Gerald Stern |PART ONE | | | |Prologue | | | |On the morning of the 26th February 1972 a coal company’s massive coal-waste refuse pile which dammed a stream in middle fork hollow | |collapsed in the Buffalo Creek Valley. Over 130 million gallons
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while others threatened us; either way‚ if it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t have make it back. Riding through mountains‚ plains‚ and forests the crew finally made it to the Pacific. This astounding group of men did what many thought was impossible. Their resilience is the reason I am able to tell you the story of the
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catalogs and credit card offers‚ he noticed a letter from Enterprise Rent-A-Car. He wondered why Enterprise would be writing him. THE WRECK Then he remembered. Earlier that month‚ Kevin had been involved in a wreck. As he was driving to work one rainy morning‚ another car had been unable to stop on the slick pavement and had plowed into his car as he waited at a stoplight. Thankfully‚ neither he nor the other driver was hurt but both cars had sustained considerable damage. In fact‚ he was not
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Many factors dictate how a person‚ or animal in some cases‚ will evolve or emerge in the end of the story. The people around a character and where the character lives usually determines what type of person or animal they are. The short story “On the Rainy River” shows how location helps a character grow and develop. Location plays a substantial role in how a character develops and how they learn the necessary material for growing up. Tim O’Brien‚ drafted into the Vietnam War‚ bolts out of town
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Place and Time The Myall creek massacre happened near the Gwydir River‚ in the central New South Wales district of Namoi. It happened on the 10 June‚ 1838 at Myall creek. The Kamilaroi Nation The Weraerai tribe of the Kamilaroi nation were the tribe involved in this conflict. At the Myall creek station there were mainly older men‚ women because several days before the massacre‚ 10 of the most able-bodied men had gone to a station about 24 kilometres away‚ named Newtons on the big River‚ where they
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The short works Reading the River by Mark Twain‚ and The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday‚ are personal tales of moments in the authors lives and how those experiences impacted them spiritually. The central theme of both essays is that of impressing upon the reader to be careful not to take everyday life for granted. Both authors accomplish this mission by relying on examples from nature‚ but Momaday goes a step farther and incorporates his Native American heritage into the explanation of
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Is This Project Likely To Be Successful? Location‚ Product‚ Pricing Given the information‚ this project seems promising for success assuming high occupancy levels. The Millegan Creek Apartments would be a 390 unit apartment project in Williamson County‚ for a proposed $15‚715‚000 loan. It would be about 11 miles northwest of the CBD and close to many of Austin’s high tech companies. This location would be beneficial because it can service many of the high tech companies’ employees and since
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The Sustainability of Experience — Investing in the Human Factor 28th Annual USSD Conference Portland‚ Oregon‚ April 28 - May 2‚ 2008 Hosted by Portland General Electric On the Cover Portland General Electric’s North Fork Dam‚ on the Clackamas River southeast of Portland‚ is a thin‚ variable-radius concrete arch dam with a maximum height of 207 feet and a thickness varying from 32 feet at the base to 8 feet at the crest. The spillway is a 200-foot-long gated ogee-type structure with
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