Ancient and Medieval Levees and Irrigation Systems
The article surveys ancient to medieval waterworks from Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, India, China, and Italy, detailing levees, canals, tanks, and embankments. It notes Menes and Sesostris, the Nile and Euphrates basins, and Italian hydraulic theory showing that reducing water volume does not necessarily lower flood heights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gkonge
R. Bayley
R.crom
Journal of American Society of Civil Engineers
Herodotus
Menes
Egypt
Memphis
Nile
Nile Valley
Lake Moeris
Sesostris
Yoosuf
Cairo
Se Kuphrates
Tigris
Thei River
Nineveh
Babylon
Aimes
Euphrates
Semiramis
Trichinopoly
Madras Presidency
Hewson
Ceylon
India
Italy
Adige
Tiber
Arno
Reno
Paul Frisi
Florence
Frisi
Hayden Geographical Survey plans three Colorado divisions
The 1876 U S Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories under Dr F V Hayden outlines four divisions in Colorado and surrounding areas. Division leaders include A D Wilson F M Endlich Wm Atkinson and Henry Garnett with plans to reach Sierra la Sal Middle Park and the White River region while documenting zoological natural history and regional geology. The report also notes a separate tale from Alamance County North Carolina of a poison attempt between Dr Hooper and his wife and a jail sentence for Patrick Welch for theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey of
Wm. Atkinson
Colorado
Utah Line
Rocky Mountains
White River Agency
Henry Garnett
A. C. Peale
Robert Adams
Jas
Clarence King
Elliott Cowes
Hayden
Alamance County
N. C
Hooper
Skiff Centennial Sighted at Sea Aboard Grace
On a voyage from London to Liverpool, a lone Norwegian fisherman from Gloucester named Jack Andrews, aged about fifty to sixty, was spotted in a fifteen by four foot skiff named Centennial. He claimed to need nothing, slept by day, and declined rescue as the Grace passed in heavy seas near 46 59. He stayed afloat fifteen days, steering by rudder and sails, and has not been heard from since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prisi
Placenta
Parma
Lombardy
Ilviland
Kuing
Urusus
Corbulo
Holland
Fletland
Rotterdam
Utrecht
Amsterdam
Ocean
Leck
Mernva
Meuse
Wahal
Geunette
Frisi
Rhine
Issel
Mentz
Mayne
Samogzia
Lavino
Italy
Samoggia
Guioa
Quaderna
Nerva
Tiber
Pliny
Vincent Viviana
Celone
Chiana
Adige
Les
Myer Gershon
Troy Press
London
Troy
Grace
Jack Andrews
Gloucester
Massachusetts
Liverpool
Andrews
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N. Rogerson
Proses Saddle and Tarness Shop
N.B
R. E. Hart
OLD Colony
Main St
Greeley
Jfay H. Boughton
Fort Coultins
CoLonano
Fort Collins
Larimer County
Silas B. A. Haynes, Albert E. Gipson
Eber T. Dunning
K. Gipson
Dunning, Counselors
Attorneys-At-Law
Real Estate & Insurance Agents
J F. Sanborn, Th
J D Buckley
Weld County
R L. Childs
Justice OF the Peace
The
Baxxony
Greeley Weld “O
J Leavy
Grant and
Sherman Ste
J. M. Freeway
Jos
Beal Estate
Ryan Estate
Denver Pacific Railroad
New Masonic Block
Colo
Nitocris
Cyrus
Belshazzar
China
Blue River
Hoang Ho
Yellow River
M. Hue Seys
Tehi
Chan Toung
Honan
Hindustan
Madras
Mr. Smith
Guglielmini
Hayden's Geographical Survey
Rindskopf
Sherif
Patrick Welch
Barbrie
Plymouth
Maine
D’rairie
Duke of Berwick
James Sr
Arabella Churchill
France
Louis
Berwick
Pe Machinery Depot
GEO. W. Tiffts & Sons
Selden
Blake
Roebling
Carr
B. C. Adams
Lawrence St
Denver, Col
Frank Leetic
America
Addreve
Frank Leslie
Pearl Street
New York
Missouri
Lawton
Howe
Godwin
Charles Lamb
Lamb
Hone
Kingsbury
San Antonio
Tex
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