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Boomway: One or two-way multi-level Mega-Way (between four and ten lanes width, two to four levels height). Filter: One-way exit or entrance to and from parking areas. Flyover: Skedway that passes over a city block (a.k.a. Overzoom). Inter-Block Zoom: Maglev train-system which replaced the old Sky-Rail network in the late twenty-first century.
The division became one of the first divisions in the Army to integrate black soldiers throughout the ranks, and was also the only combat-ready armored division in the continental United States and the first to receive the M48 Patton tank. Training for nuclear war became a major theme in the mid-1950s.
In its first year the Tower hosted just under one million visitors [26] and over 100,000 diners ate in the restaurant. [ 27 ] A set of two stamps, designed by Clive Abbott (born 1933), 3d and 1/3, was issued on 8 October 1965 for the new tower, which had followed a set of stamps in the previous month for the 25th anniversary of the Battle of ...
George Floyd protests Part of the United States racial unrest (2020–2023) and the Black Lives Matter movement Clockwise from top: Protesters in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered and the unrest began Police and National Guard at a protest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bystanders and firefighters at a torched street in Minneapolis Protest near the Multnomah County Justice Center in ...
Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private research university in University Park, Texas, United States, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. [8] SMU was founded on April 17, 1911, by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South—now part of the United Methodist Church—in partnership with Dallas civic leaders.
Brihadishvara Temple, called Rajarajesvaram (lit. ' Lord of Rajaraja ') by its builder, and known locally as Thanjai Periya Kovil (lit. ' Thanjavur Big Temple ') and Peruvudaiyar Kovil, is a Shaivite [3] [4] Hindu temple built in a Chola architectural style [5] located on the south bank of the Cauvery river in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India.
Aspartic acid (symbol Asp or D; [4] the ionic form is known as aspartate), is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins. [5] The L-isomer of aspartic acid is one of the 22 proteinogenic amino acids, i.e., the building blocks of proteins.