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Johnson’s most important triumph, according to Caro, was his passage of “the first civil rights bill in 82 years…which broke a twenty year dam in the Senate against liberal legislation...
...track from his new album Freeman (the sunny, horn-driven “We Feel It”) most of the concert is a mix of older tracks. Among these is the memorable “Columbus,” which declares “Christopher Columbus is a dam-blasted liar / He never discover Jamaica...
...Thaw CANADA Scientists from the University of Alaska and Quebec's Laval University announced that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf - the largest in the Arctic - has broken up. The researchers said this was proof the process of climate change is accelerating in the Arctic. The ice shelf used to dam the mouth of the Disraeli Fjord, creating a large freshwater lake that has now drained away, wiping out a rare microbial ecosystem...
...Dam Money Indians consider many rivers sacred. Maybe that's why they throw so much money at them. One hydroelectric dam project in Jharkhand was supposed to cost $85.3 million; the dam isn't anywhere near completion after 30 years and, according to capital investment research firm Projects Today, its total budget will probably rise to $684 million. Likewise, it's expected to take close to $4 billion to complete the massively controversial Narmada dam; the original budget was $1.4 billion...
Electricity starts at the power plant, produced by a spinning generator driven by various means: a hydroelectric dam, a large diesel engine, a gas turbine or a steam turbine. The steam is created by burning coal, oil or natural gas or by a nuclear reactor...