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Born. ( 1965-12-22) 22 December 1965 (age 58) Salzburg, Austria. Occupation (s) architect, professor. Hubert Klumpner (born 22 December 1965 in Salzburg) is an Austrian, architect, urbanist, educator, researcher, curator and activist. Klumpner is a tenured professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), [1] where ...
Carlos Arnaiz Architects, often referred to as CAZA, is a Brooklyn-based architecture firm and think-tank founded in 2009 by Carlos Arnaiz. With offices in Manila, Bogota, and Lima, the firm works on architecture and urban planning projects globally.
Spandau Prison. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (/ ʃpɛər /; German: [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ⓘ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to ...
The MBT-70 (German: KPz 70) was an American– West German joint project to develop a new main battle tank during the 1960s. The MBT-70 was developed by the United States and West Germany in the context of the Cold War, intended to counter the new generation of Warsaw Pact tanks developed by the Soviet Union.
William Froude (/ ˈ f r uː d /; [1] 28 November 1810 in Devon [2] – 4 May 1879 in Simonstown, Cape Colony) was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect.He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships (such as the hull speed equation) and for predicting their stability.
Completed. c. 900; 1124 years ago (900) Chand Baori is a stepwell situated in the village of Abhaneri in the Indian state of Rajasthan. [1][2][3] It extends approximately 30 m (100 ft) into the ground, making it one of the deepest and largest stepwells in India. [4] It is named after a local ruler of Nikumbh dynasty called Raja Chanda and its ...
The first generation of post World War II Main Battle Tanks includes the U.S. M48/M60, the German Leopard 1 and the British Centurion and Chieftain. The second generation includes most of the 120 mm Main Battle Tanks such as the American M1A1, the German Leopard 2 and the British Challenger.
Thornycroft was born in 1873 in Hammersmith into the Thornycroft family, daughter of Blanche Ada (née Coules) (1846–1936) and John Isaac Thornycroft. [1] She had four sisters, Edith Alice (1871–1959), Mary Beatrix (1875–1965), Ada Francis (1877–1965), and Eldred Elizabeth (1879– 1939), [2] and two brothers.