MAPPING THE LANDSCAPE Fort McMurray‚ AB Located in Northern Alberta at the confluence of the Athabasca and Clearwater Rivers‚ Fort McMurray is a frontier urban settlement‚ and the primary service centre for the Athabasca tar sands— the world’s third largest known oil deposit (Dorow and O’Shaughnessy‚ 2013). Records dating as far back as the 1700s point to the Chipewyan and Beaver peoples being indigenous to the Athabasca region‚ with present day First Nations having largely descended from the Dene
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Golkonda |[pic] | |Golkonda Fort | History [pic] Golkonda Fort The 13th century Golconda Fort was built by the Kakatiya kings. In the 16th century‚ Golkonda was the capital and fortress city of the Qutb Shahi kingdom‚ near Hyderabad. The city was home to one of the most powerful Muslim sultanates in the region and was the center of a flourishing diamond
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Battle of Fort Sumter Many threats were made after Lincoln’s election in November 1860 to Federal troops that guarded forts in the south. Confederate States have been seizing U.S arsenals‚ forts‚ and navy yards within their borders and as a precaution‚ General Robert Anderson asked for reinforcements to the War Department and and made a plan for some of his men to move to a more secure location close to Fort Moultrie; in this case‚ the unfinished Fort Sumter. Anderson put his plan into effect on
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Assignment : Up gradation of walled city LAHORE Conservation of the Urban Fabric Walled City of Lahore‚ PakistanZachary M. KronINTRODUCTIONThis case study on urban development in the province of Punjab focuses on the Pakistan Environmental Planning and Architectural Consultant ’s efforts to create and implement an urban conservation plan for the walled city of Lahore in the early 1980 ’s. With a population of four million in 1992‚1 this old quarter of Lahore is under tremendous pressure from commercial
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Fort Hood Shooting The Fort Hood massacre‚ like all things‚ has a before‚ a during‚ and an after. Before the shooting‚ people were going about their day as if nothing were new. During the shooting‚ people became the people they were meant to become. After the shooting‚ people felt the pain of loss; they thanked God‚ and they moved on. “I just thank God he missed me” (CNN). “Unit at Fort Hood deploying a month after shootings” (Fox). The morning before the shooting took place‚ everyone woke up
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how embarrassed he was to have talked that way‚ so disrespectfully‚ to the president. During the thirty-odd years Holmes lived in Washington‚ he visited the site of Fort Stevens a number of times. And some of our best Civil War historians‚ including James McPherson in his the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom‚ record the Fort Stevens incident as fact. Today a marker identifies the spot where the incident occurred‚ with a photograph of a hundredth anniversary reenactment. In any event
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Urban horticulture and Lahore defination Horticulture is defined as the branche of agriculture which deals with the plantation of gardens‚trees‚flowers City life affecting on horticulture As we know that with the passage of time the population increases day by day And the numbers of gardens‚trees are removed rapidly.if we can see gardens we can see the artificial beauty of them and peoples who lived in big cites where population is so much it can effected it badly. People have no time
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Do you ever wonder what citizens in Afghanistan are going through‚ being controlled by the Taliban. And‚ how women have to fight for their rights to work because the main provider is deceased or still fighting in the war? In the book A Fort of Nine Towers‚ the main character Qais talks about the causes and affects of the ongoing war and how it effects his family.Further‚ he talks about the Taliban and the restriction they had‚ and how the Mujaheddin took over during the ongoing war. Through the
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Shanzay Salman ASSIGNMENT: IMPORTANCE OF MUSEUMS- Sheilla Bhatti Sheila Bhatti argues for the construction of a more inclusive national identity. According to her museums can help in creating and promoting the idea of a new‚ more inclusive Muslim identity (both internally and externally) in the Pakistani society today. Identity- (a classic and modern perspective) Although defined by Giddens as the capacity to keep a particular narrative going‚ it must also be looked at as a site
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The Fort Cornwallis Penang Island‚ as of today‚ is synonymous with its delectable hawker fare and its trails of heritage buildings and walkway. Among the many infamous historical landmarks of Penang Island - the Fort Cornwallis‚ which has a rich history of more than two centuries‚ stands out in the forefront. It is today‚ the largest and most intact fort that can be found in Malaysia. Fort Cornwallis’ history dated back to the starting point when Sir Captain Francis Light from the British
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