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    Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed...
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    highest gravity dams, the Bhakra dam rises nearly 225.5 m above its lowest foundations. Under the supervision of the American dam-builder, Harvey Slocum...
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  • Highwayman (song) (category The Highwaymen (country supergroup) songs)
    idea. In the second verse he becomes a sailor, in the third verse a dam builder, and in the fourth verse Webb switches to future tense and the character...
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    Warren A. Bechtel (category Businesspeople from the San Francisco Bay Area)
    obituary". Peabody Gazette-Bulletin. September 7, 1933. "Boulder Dam Builder is Dead in Moscow". The World-Herald. Omaha, Nebraska. August 29, 1933. p. 7. Retrieved...
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    Frank Crowe (category Canadian emigrants to the United States)
    America's Master Dam Builder: The Engineering Genius of Frank T. Crowe. University Press of Amer, 2001. ISBN 9780761821441 Guide to the Frank Elwin Weymouth...
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    Consolidated Builders Inc. and construct the high dam. Six Companies had just finished the Hoover Dam and was nearing completion of Parker Dam. The new design...
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    is inscribed with the name and occupation of the builders. The William B. Hoyt II Visitor Center at Mount Morris Dam, opened by the U.S. Army Corps of...
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  • Characters from the Bob the Builder franchise (from all the 1999 original series, sequel series Project: Build It and Ready, Steady, Build!, and the 2015 reboot...
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    The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California...
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    The Cuddebackville Dam was a concrete dam on the Neversink River in Deerpark, Orange County, New York near the town of Cuddebackville, New York, removed...
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    dam builder who fell into the concrete of a dam near "a place called Boulder on the wild Colorado". The song was famously covered by supergroup The Highwaymen...
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    as Southeast Asians. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 119–20. ISBN 981-3055-58-8. Chinese Dam Builders Fan Conflict in Burma v t e...
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  • prominent builder and real estate developer of the modern day Delhi. Not only a builder, but he was also a subordinate architect and part of the Council...
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    (2015). Dam Builders: The Natural History of Beavers and their Ponds. Fitzhenry & Whiteside. ISBN 978-1554553242. Goldfarb, Ben (2018). Eager: The Surprising...
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    The Belo Monte Dam (formerly known as Kararaô) is a hydroelectric dam complex on the northern part of the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil. After...
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  • 1934) was a timber baron, dam builder, mill owner, financier, developer of the northern reaches of Minnesota, and president of the Ontario & Minnesota Power...
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    William Mulholland (category Irish emigrants to the United States)
    engineers and dam builders. Government engineers adopted the method when building Gatun Dam, on which Mulholland was a consultant, in the Panama Canal...
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    The Fort Peck Dam is the highest of six major dams along the Missouri River, located in northeast Montana in the United States, near Glasgow, and adjacent...
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    West, a builder of the Spier Falls Dam located downstream on the Hudson. At the end of the Wisconsin Glacial Episode a glacial moraine blocked the outflow...
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    Berta Cáceres (category Indigenous activists of the Americas)
    campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam" at the Río Gualcarque. In 2016 she was assassinated...
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  • and traders, dam builders, craftsmen, among others, earning them the name Imaki no Tehito (今來才技, “recently arrived skilled artisans”) in the Nihon Shoki...
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    of high water. The reservoir was created in 1932 by the Thief Valley Dam, a project of the United States Bureau of Reclamation. The dam is a concrete-slab-and-buttress...
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  • engineer and dam-building expert, known primarily for his part in the construction of Grand Coulee Dam in the United States and the Bhakra Dam in India....
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    Medha Patkar (category Aam Aadmi Party candidates in the 2014 Indian general election)
    commissioner on the World Commission on Dams, which did thorough research on the environmental, social, political and economic aspects and impacts of the development...
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    The highest awards are for the Cubs/Bulbuls section the Golden Arrow Award for the Scout/Guide section the Rashtrapati Scout and Guide Award for the Rover/Ranger...
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    the school was closed. The library was donated to the local public library and public schools and the dormitories became housing for the Dam builders...
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    The dam builder was a consortium led by Brazilian construction company Camargo Corrêa and engineering consultants Engevix [pt]. Funding is by the Inter-American...
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    Lake Dam is a concrete and earth-fill dam in the western United States, at the outlet of Jackson Lake in northwestern Wyoming. The lake and dam are situated...
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    out in 1965-66 to accommodate the builders of the dam. The previous name is Afrikaans and means "Orange (River) power". The town acquired its current name...
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    Kokang (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    Celebrate Liberation from Burmese Communists Maps of Kokang Chinese Dam Builders Fan Conflict in Burma 23°42′N 98°45′E / 23.700°N 98.750°E / 23.700;...
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