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Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, railways, and tunnels. [ 1][ 2] Civil ...
Semuc Champey is a natural monument in the department of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, near the Q'eqchi' Maya town of Lanquín. [ 1] It consists of a natural 300 m limestone bridge, under which passes the Cahabón River. Atop the bridge is a series of stepped, turquoise pools, a popular swimming attraction. The name Semuc Champey is from the ...
Hällfors-Sipilä was passionately fond of music. A competent pianist, she studied at the Helsinki Music Institute from the 1910s to the 1930s, developing a common interest in Modernism with her friend Sulho Sipilä (1895–1949) whom she had met at art school when she was 16. They married in 1924. Adopting the nicknames Tiva and Halle, they ...
Donald J. Harris. Donald Jasper Harris, OM (born August 23, 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics. [ 1] Harris was raised in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, attending the University College of the West Indies before earning a Bachelor's ...
The United States Merchant Marine Academy ( USMMA or Kings Point) is a United States service academy in Kings Point, New York. It trains its midshipmen (as students at the academy are called) to serve as officers in the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the United States Armed Forces and the transportation industry.
The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization featuring in stories created by the SCP Wiki, a wiki-based collaborative writing project.. Within the project's shared fictional universe, the SCP Foundation is a secret organization that is responsible for capturing, containing, and studying various paranormal, supernatural, and other mysterious phenomena (known as "anomalies" or "SCPs" [note 3 ...
Los Angeles, California, U.S. Occupation. Actress. Years active. 1992–2013. Spouse (s) André Kock. (1997–2008; divorced) Esta TerBlanche (7 January 1973 – 19 July 2024) [ 1] was a South African actress, best known for her roles on television soap operas in both South Africa and the United States.
The Arizona Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Arizona. Its headquarters are in Phoenix. [2] Along with its main rival, the Arizona Republican Party, it is one of two major parties in the state. As of 2023, the party controls the governorship, secretary of state, and attorney general offices, and ...