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A levee, an artificial bank raised above the immediately surrounding land to redirect or prevent flooding by a river, lake or sea; Embankment (earthworks), a raised bank to carry a road, railway, or canal across a low-lying or wet area
The Delmar Loop–Parkview Gardens Historic District is a historic district in University City, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri. It is roughly bounded by Kingsland Ave., North Dr., Delmar Blvd., and Eastgate. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The listing included 289 contributing buildings. [1]
The side of a levee in Sacramento, California. A levee (/ ˈ l ɛ v i / or / ˈ l ɛ v eɪ /), [a] [1] dike (American English), dyke (British English; see spelling differences), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is an elevated ridge, natural or artificial, alongside the banks of a river, often intended to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river.
The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw . Its herbarium , with more than 6.6 million specimens, [ 3 ] is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden .
The Ewing and Muriel Kauffman Memorial Garden is a 2-acre botanic garden and part of the Kauffman Legacy Park, located in Kansas City, Missouri. It is maintained in a collaborative effort by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Powell Gardens. The gardens are located near Country Club Plaza and the main campus of University of Missouri ...
Powell Gardens, Kansas City's botanical garden, is a 970-acre (3.9 km 2) botanical garden in Kingsville, Missouri, United States, 30 miles (48 km) east of Kansas City. It features 6,000 varieties of plants, with 225,000 plants in seasonal displays, and is open to the public, for a fee, during daylight hours.
Applicants for executive clemency must have tried and failed to obtain all other avenues for sentence reduction first, including expungement and judicial appeals.
The Mizzou Botanic Garden contains thousands of plants within the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, United States. [1] The Garden includes famous icons, such as Thomas Jefferson 's original grave marker and the Columns of Academic Hall , and is open year-round, only asking for a small donation to visit.