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  2. Public art of the Washington State Ferries system - Wikipedia

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    "WSF Terminal Design Manual" (PDF). April 2016. M 3082.05. In July 1974, Washington State's Legislature established the Art in Public Places (AIPP) Program of the Washington State Arts Commission. The AIPP Program facilitates the acquisition of artwork with funds generated by new state-funded public building construction.

  3. The Twelve Labors of Hercules (Spafford) - Wikipedia

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    The Twelve Labors of Hercules is a series of murals by Washington State artist Michael Spafford commissioned in the early 1980s for the State of Washington. The works were completed in 1981 and permanently installed on the walls of the House of Representatives' chambers at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia; [1] the building was designed in the 1920s to accommodate murals, but they were ...

  4. Topographical tradition - Wikipedia

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    In his article "The Topographical Tradition", Bruce McElvoy states that the topographical tradition is rooted in 18th-century British watercolour painting intended to serve practical as well as aesthetic purposes: "At the beginning of the 18th century, the topographical watercoulor was primarily used as an objective record of an actual place in ...

  5. Geography of Washington (state) - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific coast of Westport. Washington is the northwesternmost state of the contiguous United States.It borders Idaho to the east, bounded mostly by the meridian running north from the confluence of the Snake River and Clearwater River (about 117°02'23" west), except for the southernmost section where the border follows the Snake River.

  6. Cartographic design - Wikipedia

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    Design and Implementation: This step involves making decisions about all of the aspects of map design, as listed below, and implementing them using computer software. In the manual drafting era, this was a very linear process of careful decision making, in which some aspects needed to be implemented before others (often, projection first).

  7. Mount Baker - Wikipedia

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    The east side of Mount Baker in 2001. Sherman Crater is the deep depression south of the summit. Mount Baker (Nooksack: Kweq' Smánit; Lushootseed: təqʷubəʔ), [9] also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is a 10,781 ft (3,286 m) active [10] glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano [4] in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States.

  8. File:Washington LD 02.pdf - Wikipedia

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    In the State of Washington, laws exist to ensure that government is open and that the public has a right to access appropriate records and information possessed by state government. At the same time, there are exceptions to the public's right to access public records that serve various needs including the privacy of individuals.

  9. Regrading in Seattle - Wikipedia

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    The building under construction is the New Washington Hotel, now the Josephinium at the corner of Second and Stewart. The topography of central Seattle was radically altered by a series of regrades in the city's first century of urban settlement, in what might have been the largest such alteration of urban terrain at the time. [1]