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William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was an Irish American self-taught civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city in California.
The Isle of Mull [6] or simply Mull [3] [7] (Scottish Gaelic: Muile ⓘ) [8] is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides (after Skye) and lies off the west coast of Scotland in the council area of Argyll and Bute. Covering 875.35 square kilometres (337.97 sq mi), Mull is the fourth-largest island in Scotland.
The geology of the Isle of Mull in Scotland is dominated by the development during the early Palaeogene period of a ‘volcanic central complex’ associated with the opening of the Atlantic Ocean. The bedrock of the larger part of the island is formed by basalt lava flows ascribed to the Mull Lava Group erupted onto a succession of Mesozoic ...
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1910 — Gifford Pinchot publishes The Fight For Conservation. 1913 — US Congress enacts law which destroys the Hetch Hetchy Valley. 1913 — Ludwig Klages delivers the lecture "Man and Earth," an early and sustained meditation on extinction that begins to conceive of mass-extinction. 1916 — US Congress creates the National Park Service.
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The firth extends from the junction of the Sound of Mull and the Lynn of Lorn in the north-east, in a south-westerly direction towards Colonsay. The narrower north-eastern part is the Inner Firth, and the wider south-western part is the Outer Firth. [1]: 4 The firth takes its name from the historic province of Lorne on the adjacent mainland.