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  skyscraper - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about skyscraper
The centre of a city is characterized by high-rise buildings and a concentration of public transport.
Owing to the advanced public transport system, the city centre is very accessible and attracts large numbers of shoppers and visitors, although large cities such as Tokyo tend to become congested.
Arguably the defining architectural achievement of the 20th century, skyscrapers have transformed the appearance of cities all over the world.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /skyscraper   (877 words)

  
 List of neologisms on The Simpsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" Barney had left Homer's car illegally parked at what was believed to be the World Trade Center.
According to Cletus's wife (and sister), Brandine, "mirror" is just "a big city word for Reversifying Glass" (From the episode "The Seven-Beer Snitch").
Homer's description of his act after eating a waffle that Bart threw on the ceiling, which he was praying to as if it were God.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons   (8803 words)

  
 Reading and Books | Recommended Reading
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
An agent of the Sylon Confederacy who is fleeing from enemy ships, crash lands on Earth, transfers his mind to the body of a skunk, and enlists the aid of two children in getting back to his home planet.
The harrowing escape of a young boy from a futuristically mechanized tyranny is compellingly described.
kids.nypl.org /reading/recommended2.cfm?ListID=60   (2467 words)

  
 Aerospace Library
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos (Little, Brown, 1994).
As much a portrait of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works, which the author eventually headed, as it is an autobiography of Rich.
We are sure that all manner of works about this period will continue to be written long after the last of the combatants is gone.
www.airspacemag.com /ASM/Mag/Index/2002/FM/Library.html   (4954 words)

  
 Maritime Heritage Network - Stories
The sprawling facility, located next to the city of Bremerton on Sinclair Inlet, was established in 1891, and it continues to serve the US Navy today.
McCurdy was a shipbuilder, bridge builder, civic leader, native Washingtonian, and a supporter of maritime research and maritime collecting in the Pacific Northwest.
As Seattle’s city engineer in the early 20th century, he leveled hills, straightened and dredged waterways, reclaimed tide flats, built sewers, sidewalks, tunnels, and bridges, and paved roads, giving the city its current shape.
www.maritimeheritage.net /stories   (1178 words)

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