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    Levee (redirect from Water bund)
    A levee (/ˈlɛvi/ or /ˈlɛveɪ/), dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the...
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    legally protected treaty port. The term "bund" was borrowed into English from Hindi and originally referred to a dyke or embankment. Within the Chinese treaty...
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  • A subsurface dyke is a structure that is built in an aquifer with the intention of obstructing the natural flow of ground water, thereby raising the ground...
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    economic purposes, and to achieve a line following a dyke, consequently this line followed the dyke south of Højer. The northern Zone I voted en bloc, i...
    7 KB (799 words) - 06:46, 19 May 2024
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    (53 ft) above the average, an average of 1.7 m (5.6 ft) above the Shanghai Bund. In Chinese, this event is commonly known as 江淮水灾, which roughly translates...
    21 KB (2,578 words) - 03:59, 31 May 2024
  • million cubic meters (500 MCft). The supply from Ajan Bund is irregular and subject to the bund being full to the extent of reservoir level at 8.5 meters...
    19 KB (2,197 words) - 04:56, 30 May 2024
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    the neighborhood was the home base of Fritz Julius Kuhn's German American Bund, the most notorious pro-Nazi group in 1930s United States, which led to spontaneous...
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  • In 1843, the same firm established a mainland China headquarters on the Bund in Shanghai, just south of the British Consulate. The building was known...
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    1 million cusecs. The emergency spillway is a weir type with an erodible bund and a maximum capacity of 0.23 million cusecs. The 5 tunnels are steel and...
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    Anthem". The New York Times. 24 November 1991. van Dyke, Henry (2004). The Poems of Henry van Dyke. Netherlands: Fredonia Books. ISBN 1410105741. Rev...
    75 KB (7,079 words) - 18:17, 13 May 2024
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    Retrieved 14 October 2012. "Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA » Erweiterung Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main". Bund Deutscher Architektinnen...
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  • of any of the laws concerning the Jewish state". 1897 – The Jewish Labour Bund, a secular anti-Zionist socialist party whose purpose was to unify Jews within...
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    the opening of the Whampoa Military Academy on 16 June 1924 The Guangzhou Bund in 1930, with rows of Tanka boats A short film of Guangzhou in 1937 The People's...
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    Lower Lusatia is a region called the Grenzwall, literally meaning "border dyke", although it is in fact a morainic ridge. In the Middle Ages this area had...
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    fields for any necessary repairs in February. Fields may be rebuilt, and bund breaches are repaired. This work is carried out until mid-March, when warmer...
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  • bondonner bonnet "bonnet" ( < OFr bonet "material for hats" < Frk *bunni < Gmc *bund-) bonneter bonnetier bonnetière bonneteau bonneton bonnette bonneter bonnetade...
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    Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in German), Schwerin: Demmler-Verlag, pp. 110f, ISBN 3-91-015052-7 BUND press release on gravel mining dated 12 June 2009 Standarddatenbogen FFH-Gebiet...
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  • Thumbnail for 2014 India–Pakistan floods
    District were flooded due to the breaches made at two places in Athari Hazari dyke, leaving trail of destruction behind. As the floodwater moved further south...
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    approach to fascism and its era, 1919-1945. Berghahn Books, 2016, page 7. Van Dyke, James A. (2010). "Introduction: Reactionary Modernism and the Problem of...
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    are recorded with intrusions of charnockite, biotite gneiss and dolerite dyke rocks. The Tertiary Varkala formations are observed along the coastal beds...
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