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When it opened in 1947, the 12-story Mapes Hotel was the tallest building in Nevada until the 1956 opening of the Fremont Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. [1] Owned by the Mapes family, the hotel quickly became, for most of the 1950s and 1960s, the premier hotel in Reno.
Mapes is an unincorporated community in northern Nelson County, North Dakota, United States. It lies approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) east of the city of the county seat Lakota , along U.S. Route 2 .
Hemispherical photography, also known as canopy photography, is a technique to estimate solar radiation and characterize plant canopy geometry using photographs taken looking upward through an extreme wide-angle lens or a fisheye lens (Rich 1990). Typically, the viewing angle approaches or equals 180-degrees, such that all sky directions are ...
Bruce Mapes (1901–1961), American figure skater; Carl E. Mapes (1874–1939), American politician; Charlie Mapes (born 1982), English former footballer; Cliff Mapes (1922–1996), American baseball player; David P. Mapes (1798–1890), American businessman and politician; Elias Mapes (1833–1906), American union organizer and politician
Canopy over a doorway in Fergana, Uzbekistan Canopied entrance to the New York City Subway at the 14th Street–Union Square station. A canopy is a type of overhead roof or else a structure over which a fabric or metal covering is attached, able to provide shade or shelter from weather conditions such as sun, hail, snow and rain. [1]
The protective canopy blocks UV lighting from young kids playing inside, or older kids can store snacks and drinks while at the park or playing sports. The fabric isn’t machine washable so you ...
Below the canopy is the three-layered, shade-tolerant understory that is roughly 9 to 15 m (30 to 50 ft) shorter than the canopy. The top layer of the understory is the sub-canopy composed of smaller mature trees, saplings , and suppressed juvenile canopy layer trees awaiting an opening in the canopy.
Bing Maps (previously Live Search Maps, Windows Live Maps, Windows Live Local, and MSN Virtual Earth) is a web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft's Bing suite of search engines and powered by the Bing Maps Platform framework which also support Bing Maps for Enterprise APIs and Azure Maps APIs.