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Removal of the Hallett's Point reef began in August 1869; the reef was an irregular semi-ellipse about 770 by 300 feet (235 by 91 m). Producing eddies on both sides (influenced by tidal currents), it was a danger to shipping.
Rindge Dam near Malibu, California, built in 1924, completely silted and abandoned by the 1950s. The 100 ft (30 m) privately owned Rindge Dam on Malibu Creek in the Santa Monica Mountains of California was built in 1924 and has been allowed to completely fill with sediment, making it functionally obsolete but still a potential hazard.
Apr. 12—EAST COBB — Gilded sledgehammers and a mammoth excavator bucket came crashing through the walls of the former Bruno's grocery Monday, sounding the death knell of the long-suffering ...
The Underwater Demolition Team (UDT), or frogmen, were amphibious units created by the United States Navy during World War II with specialized missions. They were predecessors of the Navy's current SEAL teams. Their primary WWII function began with reconnaissance and underwater demolition of natural or man-made obstacles obstructing amphibious ...
The Cappadocia Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas has sat in the historically Black East End Asheville neighborhood for 100 years.
The bridge night lighting is now glare free and new white LED lighting has been installed in the lower, eastbound tunnel section. The removal of sharp curves east of the tunnel has encouraged a smoother eastbound traffic flow west of, and through the tunnel, even when compared to the pre-construction configuration.
Dame Touré rushed to quickly gather what she could as bulldozers rolled into her neighborhood in Ivory Coast's fast-growing economic hub of Abidjan. The Touré home was among hundreds crushed in ...
In 1950 the Coast Artillery Corps and all Army harbor defense commands were dissolved. Today the Air Defense Artillery carries the lineage of some Coast Artillery units. [64] In the late 1940s antiaircraft gun sites were established in the US, first with 90 mm guns and later with 120 mm guns. In the Boston area some of these sites were at or ...