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The dam at Grand Coulee would someday be mentioned with the Great Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China and the Panama Canal as one of humankind's greatest achievements. On June 18, 1934, the ...
Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water. Constructed between 1933 and 1942, Grand Coulee originally had two powerhouses.
Part of the Grand Coulee has been dammed and filled with water as part of the Columbia Basin Project. Grand Coulee is an ancient river bed in the U.S. state of Washington. This National Natural Landmark [1] stretches for about 60 miles (100 km) southwest from Grand Coulee Dam to Soap Lake, being bisected by Dry Falls into the Upper and Lower ...
Supplement to the newspaper O Século about the suffragettes of the Liga Republicana das Mulheres Portuguesas, published on May 12, 1910: 5 - Ana de Castro Osório; 6 - Maria Veleda; 7 - Beatriz Pinheiro; 8 - Maria Clara Correia Alve; 13 - Sofia Quintino; 14 - Adelaide Cabete; 15 - Carolina Beatriz Ângelo; 16 - Maria do Carmo Joaquina Lopes
The Grand Coulee Bridge, or Columbia River Bridge at Grand Coulee Dam, [3] is a through-cantilever steel truss bridge built in 1934–35. It carries State Route 155 across the Columbia River immediately below Grand Coulee Dam, near the city of Grand Coulee, Washington. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [4]
Dry Falls is a 3.5-mile-long (5.6 km) scalloped precipice with four major alcoves, in central Washington scablands.This cataract complex is on the opposite side of the Upper Grand Coulee from the Columbia River, and at the head of the Lower Grand Coulee, northern end of Lenore Canyon. [1]
[14] Correio da Manhã had a circulation of 111,585 copies in 2006. [14] In 2007 the daily was the best-selling newspaper in Portugal with a circulation of 115,000 copies. [15] Its 2008 circulation rose to 122,090 copies. [16] In 2009 it was also the best-selling newspaper in the country. [17]
The Lusa News Agency (Portuguese: Lusa – Agência de Notícias de Portugal, SA; lit. ' Lusa - Portuguese News Agency ') is the largest news agency in Portugal, as well as the largest news agency in the Portuguese language, incorporated on 28 November 1986 [1] under the name of Agência Lusa — Cooperativa de Interesse Público de Responsabilidade Limitada (Lusa Agency - Public Interest ...