Word: basins
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...project which, if in can be carried out will give to Boston a beautiful water park, a feature of attractiveness superior to anything of its kind to be found on the American Continent. Such a park, which will rival the finest water park of Europe, the famous Alster Basin of Hamburg, can be laid out in the Back Bay at a comparatively little expense...
...fixed structure, as was originally intended. The present plan contemplates a dam in conjunction with a new bridge, with separate sections between every two adjacent piers, and so arranged that any section may be opened to permit the tide to enter. This would result in a basin of salt water, instead of fresh water, as would have been the case under the former plan. By opening the dam at intervals the water of the basin could be renewed, and any possible unhealthful effects of stagnation would thus be obviated...
...eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Mycenaean Troy was ravaged and burned, so was Mycenae itself, and so was the great Cretan Labyrinth at Knossos. Facts are not lacking even now, and will with time grow abundant, which illustrate the transition from bronze to iron in the Mediterranean basin. The fruitful beginnings of Mycenaean art and civilization in the early Bronze Age of the European Mediterranean basin were not brought there from any northern or northeastern part of the world, but were organized and developed in that very region itself. This culture then and its initial stages, called the "Amorgan period...
Some time this week the two launches "John Harvard" and "Veritas" will race in the Basin in order to test their relative speed. After this trial the "Veritas" will be revarnished and painted...
...Geology of the Richmond Basin, in Virginia," and "The Geology of the Narragansett Basin" are the titles of two new books which Professor Shaler and Mr. J. B. Woodworth have collaborated in writing. Mr. Woodworth has also written a monograph on the structure and origin of the rocks in which the coals of Eastern Virginia are found. His report on "The Occurrence of Fossil Vertebrate Footprints in the Carboniferous Rocks of Massachusetts" is ready for publication...