Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
According to scholar Pétrus Ký, the waterfront area at the end of rue Catinat was once called Bến Ngự (translating to "royal wharf"), the royal landing stage. He also revealed that it was known in Khmer as Compong-luong, [3] which suggests that its history may date back to the 17th century, when Saigon was still the Cambodian settlement of Prey Nokor.
The District Wharf, commonly known simply as The Wharf, is a multi-billion dollar mixed-use development on the Southwest Waterfront in Washington, D.C. It contains the city's historic Maine Avenue Fish Market , hotels, residential buildings, restaurants, shops, parks, piers, docks and marinas, and live music venues.
Wharf under construction on the Upper Mississippi in Fountain City, Wisconsin [1] A wharf (pl. wharves or wharfs), quay (/ k iː / kee, also / k eɪ, k w eɪ / k(w)ay [2]), staith, or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
The Wharf (Holdings) Limited (Chinese: 九龍倉集團), or Wharf (九倉) in short, is a company founded in 1886 in Hong Kong. As its name suggests, the company's original business was in running wharfage and dockside warehousing, and it was originally known as The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited and founded by Sir Paul ...
The Vietnamese Wikipedia (Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.
Following the increasing of Internet usage in Vietnam, many online encyclopedias were published. The two largest online Vietnamese-language encyclopedias are Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam, a state encyclopedia, and Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
The whole architectural complex is of the Qing's style and occupies an area of more than 2,000 square meters (half an acre). Over 100 rooms are divided into three sections and each one is connected by arcades and aisles. The first is the water gate and the wharf, where Shen's family moored boats and washed clothes.
The Wharf was a free local newspaper produced at Canary Wharf, England. It was set up in 1998, as such covering the transformation of the Isle of Dogs as it became an important financial centre . The Wharf was based in One Canada Square , a sister paper to the Daily Mirror , the Sunday Mirror and The People , all part of the Mirror Group ...