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    and landslides and the presence of narrow gorges (Wakode et al., 2013). The construction of the eastern embankment increased aggradation on the western side of the river, making the embankment vulnerable to breaching (Sinha, 2009). Furthermore, Chakraborty et al (2010) noted that avulsion was more

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    The process is done by simply placing a surcharge fill on top of the soil that requires consolidation. The excess load is referred to as surcharge load. The load must be placed in several stages so as to prevent instability. Once the predicted consolidation is achieved, the fill can be removed and construction can be started. Surcharge which was installed as a temporary load, can be removed when the settlements exceed the foretold final settlement. Normally this is done only after the remaining

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    since it greatly changes subsurface drainage patterns; it also has the potential to alter the groundwater condition when some of its mineral components dissolve in the seeping water. Mudstone normally poses a challenge when constructing embankments and cuts. Embankment constructed through

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    For centuries, there have been doubts about translating works of literature, but in Chekhov’s, The Lady with the Dog which today is his best known, most translated short story. Chekhov tells the story of a chance meeting between Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeevna, both on vacation and both without their spouses. We get the feeling these two characters feel their lives are boring and mundane. When these two empty hearts meet they capture a glimpse of happiness that fines them accidental in love. Chekhov’s

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    • What constitutes an artifact of empire • Structures that memorialize the nation’s imperial gains and losses Introduction Public monuments and literature share a lot in common. At first sight, it might be difficult to relate one to the other. However, deeply embedded in them they share a motif: an imagined community. They embrace a sense of belonging; they represent a nation or an empire. It is physically impossible for a person to meet every one of his fellow nationals; time and space prevents

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    Houston City Case Study

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    They are owned, operated and maintained by the Corps which leases the area for recreational purposes. When construction began the federal government bought significant part of the land adjacent and upstream of the embankments. However, a certain amount of land within the absolute maximum fill level was left in private hands. An estimated 14,000 homes are within the predicted boundary.15–17 In dry periods Addicks and Barker Reservoir are oases of green in the urban

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    Mercury Dumping Incident

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    operation. Typically these case studies have a similar underpinning of (what were they thinking!). This sentence says everything “waste contaminated with mercury was dumped over an embankment of an unnamed tributary to a creek” (VanGuilder, para. 5.4). In no way does the concept of dumping contaminated anything over and embankment into a body of water sound like a logical solution. There is zero possibility that this incident was a situation of

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    Burials are one of the main sources of knowledge concerning the Early Bronze Age. The most common practice during this time was placing several generations of one family in the same cave or tomb with a variety of offerings, such as pottery vessels, jewelry, and metal objects. In most cases, skeletal remains were found disarticulated with the skulls separated from the bodies. For example, at Tell Asawir bones were packed in pottery jars; at Azor there is some evidence of cremation; and at Jericho

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    Pocahontas Times, a couple traveling from New York watched as Newsome's accident took place. The pair looked on in horror as they saw the mother head to the trunk, grabbing her daughter's dead body wrapped in a blanket, before dragging it over the embankment.

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    In Band of Brothers Episode 5, Crossroads, the audience is introduced in the first scene to Captain Winters running across an open field and coming to an embankment at the end of the field. On the other side of the embankment sits a German soldier scrounging for something on the ground. Winters squeezes the trigger and then the screen goes black. This scene as short as it is I believe is a very powerful way to start the entire episode. If one were to break this scene down there is several traces

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