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As they explore the grassy fields near the construction site of their new homes, they learn of the great loss of life that happened there during the war. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The book's setting alternates between the present day and 1862 as one of the boys' fathers describes the long-ago battle.
Eve Bjørgum Bunting (née Bolton, December 19, 1928 – October 1, 2023), better known as Eve Bunting, was a Northern Irish-born American writer of more than 250 books. Her work covered a broad array of subjects and included fiction and non-fiction books.
An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture.Architectural drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts, to convince clients of the merits of a design, to assist a building ...
Construction – process of building or assembling infrastructure. A complex activity, large scale construction involves extensive multitasking. A complex activity, large scale construction involves extensive multitasking.
Smoky Night is a 1994 children's book by Eve Bunting.It tells the story of a Los Angeles riot and its aftermath through the eyes of a young boy named Daniel. The ongoing fires and looting force neighbors who previously disliked each other to work together to find their cats.
Roman building ingenuity extended over bridges, aqueducts, and covered amphitheatres. Their sewerage and water-supply works were remarkable and some systems are still in operation today. The only aspect of Roman construction for which very little evidence survives is the form of timber roof structures, none of which seem to have survived intact.
In Jamaican building construction, "belt course" or "belting" refers to a continuous concrete beam or slab that is boxed and cast across the top of the wall spanning the concrete blocks and tying in all columns to provide structural support and to carry the weight of the roof or another story. The slabs or beams across windows and doors are ...
City Hall was the tallest habitable building in the world until 1908 when surpassed by the Singer Building. City Hall was surpassed during its construction by the Washington Monument and the Eiffel Tower , and is slightly lower by about 0.5 m (1 ft 8 in) than the Mole Antonelliana (completed in 1889); [ 46 ] [ 47 ] however, none of those three ...