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Location of the EICC administrative offices in Davenport. EICC was established in 1965 by the Iowa General Assembly as one of 15 community college merged areas. The move combined Clinton Junior College, Muscatine Junior College and the vocational-technical programs of the Davenport schools.
The main campus on Belmont Road in Riverdale opened in 1969. (The college has a Bettendorf mailing address but is, technically, located in the small town of Riverdale.) The campus was erected on land once owned by Alcoa. At first, the campus housed technology programs, but soon expanded to offer liberal arts/college transfer programs.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1997 (CHOGM) was held in the EICC. To commemorate this occasion, the Clydesdale Bank issued a special commemorative £20 note . The reverse side featured an illustration of the EICC building alongside the new Clydesdale Bank building on Lothian Road, with Edinburgh Castle in the background.
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Edinburgh was built in Newcastle-upon-Tyne by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, her keel laid down on 30 December 1936. She was a fast cruiser, with a full load displacement of 13,175 long tons (13,386 t), and an intended sea speed of 32.25 knots (59.73 km/h).
HMS Inflexible was one of three Invincible-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war. She tried to hunt down the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau in the Mediterranean Sea when war broke out and she and her sister ship Invincible sank the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau ...
The O class was a planned class of three battlecruisers for the Kriegsmarine (German navy) before World War II.Prompted by a perceived lack in ship numbers when compared with the British Royal Navy, the O class' design was born with the suggestion of modifying the P-class cruiser design with 380 mm (15 in) guns instead of 283 mm (11.1 in).
Armored cruiser O'Higgins. Unprotected cruiser. Arturo Prat (1880) - Purchase canceled and sold to Japan in 1883, renamed Tsukushi, retired 1910; Protected cruisers. Esmeralda (1883) - Sold to Japan 1894, renamed Izumi, discarded 1912; Presidente Errázuriz class. Presidente Errázuriz (1890) - Discarded 1930; Presidente Pinto (1890 ...