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Originally proposed as a $4.5 million project, [6] it ultimately cost $15 million, including $800,000 for decorating and tropical landscaping. [7] It was the most expensive Las Vegas resort developed up to that point, beating the $8.5 million Riviera , which opened two years earlier. [ 8 ]
Landscape scale conservation attempts to reconcile competing pressures on the designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty across the United Kingdom. [1]Landscape-scale conservation is a holistic approach to landscape management, aiming to reconcile the competing objectives of nature conservation and economic activities across a given landscape.
In 1818, Christ Church (Church of Ireland) on Taney Road was opened as a replacement for a smaller church that stood on the same site. Selling pew sites raised funding for the new building, and the sale of 18 pews on the ground and 8 on the gallery raised nearly £400. The architect for the new church was William Farrell.
The foundations for quantitative map scaling goes back to ancient China with textual evidence that the idea of map scaling was understood by the second century BC. Ancient Chinese surveyors and cartographers had ample technical resources used to produce maps such as counting rods, carpenter's square's, plumb lines, compasses for drawing circles, and sighting tubes for measuring inclination.
OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a free, open geographic database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. Contributors collect data from surveys, trace from aerial photo imagery or satellite imagery, and also import from other freely licensed geodata sources.
The sale had resulted in a new name for the lake, Capital Beach, which later became Capitol Beach. [3] Capitol Beach changed hands several times. [3] The city of Lincoln considered, but ultimately decided against, buying the property and incorporating it as a public park. [3] The Lincoln State Journal chastised the city for their decision:
The Aboriginal name for the Sale area is Wayput. [4] Two famous Gippsland explorers, Paul Strzelecki and Angus McMillan, passed through the immediate area around 1840.The first white settler was Archibald McIntosh who arrived in 1844 and established his 'Flooding Creek' property on the flood plain country which was duly inundated soon after his arrival.
The Seymour Lake Lumber Company, having a 15,000-foot capacity per shift mill, [28] was producing 10,000 feet of lumber daily to keep up with the building boom. Swampy land with canvas tents and shacks became what the Omenica Miner described in October 1913 as "the best district in British Columbia."