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Griffin designed the lake with many geometric motifs, so that the axes of his design lined up with natural geographical landmarks in the area. However, government authorities changed his original plans and no substantial work was completed before he left Australia in 1920. His scheme remained

A videoconference or video conference (also known as a videoteleconference ) is a set of interactive telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously. It has also been called 'visual collaboration' and

In the mid 1950s American rockabilly and rock and roll music was taken up by local musicians and it soon caught on with Australian teens, through movies, records and from 1956, television. EMI had dominated the Australasian record market since the end of WWII, and they made British music

McGovern grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota , where he was a renowned debater. He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces upon the country's entry into World War II and as a B-24 Liberator pilot flew 35 missions over German-occupied Europe . Among the medals awarded him was a Distinguished

Carver's reputation is based on his research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts , soybeans and sweet potatoes , which also aided nutrition for farm families. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops both as a source of their own food and as a source

Since achieving independence in 1966, the island nation of Barbados has transformed itself from a low-income economy dependent upon sugar production, into an upper-middle-income economy based on tourism and the offshore sector. Barbados went into a deep recession in the 1990s after 3 years

Woolson was born in Antwerp , New York . His father, Willard Woolson, enlisted in the Union Army . Willard was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh and was transported to an Army hospital in Windom , Minnesota , where he eventually died of his wounds. Albert and his mother moved to Windom to accompany

APL has a combination of unique and relatively uncommon features that appeal to programmers and make it a productive programming language: [ 8 ] It is concise, using symbols rather than words and applying functions to entire arrays without using explicit loops. It is solution focused, emphasizing

insulated brackets, typically at intervals of 10 feet (3.0 metres) or so. The trains have metal contact blocks called "shoes" which make contact with the conductor rail. The traction current is returned to the generating station through the running rails. The conductor rail is usually made

The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes —whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle and ocarina . The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block