Word: fountain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wind, weather and the commonplace headaches of sophisticated technology have kept the anonymously donated Science Center fountain from functioning as expected this winter...
...native New England boulders, arranged in a 60-foot circle, cage 70 spray jets which ordinarily "produce a fine spray which will refract natural light, producing a rainbow effect," according to a press release, issued last year when the construction of the fountain was announced...
...added that the recent warm weather has also prevented fountain operation. The fountain, which runs in the winter by spraying steam at 180 degrees, cannot operate when air temperature exceeds 40 degrees as the steam will not condense and will dangerously heat the spray jets, Oommen explained...
...Rhone River. Wandering tribesmen settled at the lake's edge as early as the Bronze Age. The Romans conquered the place in 120 B.C., and Julius Caesar came to fortify it for his Gallic Wars. In what is now the Place du Bourg-de-Four, where a stone fountain gently splashes through the seasons, the Roman road from Italy once crossed the road to southern France...
...former editor of the Washington Monthly) and returned in the mid-'70s to live in Everglades City and Miami Beach, his current home. His South is not the storied region of literary tradition. There is a theme-park quality to Florida's past. Ponce de Leon's fountain of youth and apocryphal pirates are turned into roadside attractions. For good- ole-boy authenticity, Rothchild heads past the subdivisions and tourist snares until the signs read BEER, AMMO and WORMS...