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  2. Public Works Administration - Wikipedia

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    The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression .

  3. PNG - Wikipedia

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    PNG was developed as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)—unofficially, the initials PNG stood for the recursive acronym "PNG's not GIF". [ 6 ] PNG supports palette-based images (with palettes of 24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA colors), grayscale images (with or without an alpha channel for transparency), and ...

  4. Access mat - Wikipedia

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    Access mats are a category of matting that are generally used to provide temporary roads and worksites. Access mats are often used to access work sites in remote or environmentally sensitive areas, [5] such as bogs, wetlands or fens. For that reason, they are often referred to as swamp, bog or wetland mats.

  5. The Living New Deal - Wikipedia

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    The Living New Deal is a California non-profit corporation based in the San Francisco Bay Area and affiliated with the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. The Living New Deal is directed by UCB Professor Emeritus Richard Walker. [16] Its founder and project scholar is Gray Brechin. [17]

  6. Louisiana man makes sleeping mats for the homeless out of ...

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    He's asking the public to come out and make mats on Saturday at 4 p.m. at New Life Community Church, 134 Lakewood Drive in Luling. More on AOL.com: 94-year-old man finishes college after starting ...

  7. PWA - Wikipedia

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    Public Works Administration, the construction agency of the US New Deal program Patients' Welfare Association in Karachi, Pakistan Progressive Writers' Association , in pre-partition India

  8. Rug making - Wikipedia

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    Woven rugs include both flat rugs (for example kilims) and pile rugs. [2] The more tightly a rug is woven or knotted, the more detailed a design can be. "It is generally believed that the density of knots, the age, the material, and the rarity of the design or knots determines the value of a carpet. ..." [This quote needs a citation]

  9. Mat - Wikipedia

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    Jute Mats and mattings starting from 1 m width to 6 m width and of continuous length are easily being woven in Southern parts of India, in solid and fancy shades, and in different weaves such as boucle, Panama and herringbone. Jute mats and rugs are made on both powerlooms and handlooms in large volumes in Kerala, India.