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Prospect Park Zoo to reopen for first time since September
Federal funds will be covering the estimated $20 million the zoo says it will cost to fix everything.
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Stretching Your Dollar: Renovating Your Home on the Cheap
Stretching Your Dollar: Renovating Your Home on the Cheap
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N.L. government providing financial assistance to displaced residents
Mayor of Port aux Basques Brian Button says the coastal community’s recovery will take time. “It’s not a quick fix. The rebuild of this is going to be long, it’s going to be extensive,” he said.
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Fire at Coptic church in Egypt kills at least 41
A mass funeral is held for the victims of a fire at a Coptic Christian church in Giza that killed at least 41 people. Many of the victims were children.
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Buying or selling a home during the pandemic: what to expect
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed what happens when you buy or sell a house. Andrew Chang walks through what’s changed in the real estate game.
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Holland College expanding trade programs, shortly after cutting others
This fall, Holland College will add 10 seats to its plumbing and pipefitting courses and 24 to the construction electrical program. The news comes after the post-secondary institution announced earlier this year that it was suspending...
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Manhole fire shuts down Longwood block on Christmas Eve
The FDNY says they received the call at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday for a smoking manhole.
Bridgeman Arts
1970s: Man operates computer, women type
1970s: Man operates computer, women type. Young man reads "DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS" in garden by pond. High school students on bench. Classroom. Men in workshop. Woman works on circuit board.
British Movietone
DECORATE - AND KEEP WARM
A paint containing carbon particles which makes an excellent conductor of electricity, developed by the National Coal Board. The paint is heated by passing an electric current through it, and can be covered with an insulated decorative...
British Movietone
STAMP OF APPROVAL
Pictures show the testing of domestic electrical appliances, by the Electricity Council's Approval Board, at their laboratories in Surrey. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either...
British Movietone
INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES - RUSSIAN POWER SCHEME
A big Hydro Electric scheme is well under way on the river Syr Darya. The plan is to provide electric current to the Soviet Republics (Uzbekistan and Tajikistan). Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
British Movietone
""COMPAC"" LINKS COMMONWEALTH
It was in 1958, when a special telephone cable was loaded aboard a British cable ship, before the first stage in the plan to create a closer link between the countries of the Commonwealth. This first stage was an undersea cable between...
British Movietone
COURT CIRCULAR
At Crewe, the Queen and the Duke were welcomed by the Mayor. They were presented to tenants of the Duchy Estates at Crewe Hall. ® Newcastle-under-Lyme the Queen inspected a RAF Guard Of Honour before leaving for the Wedgewood factory at...
British Movietone
INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES - MILLION POUND ORDER
An order valued at about a million pounds, is for the supply of installation of high voltage submarine cable for Vancouver. It was seen at Salford being loaded for the voyage. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection....
Bridgeman Arts
1950s: Boys look at electronics store display window
1950s: Boys look at electronics store display window. Electric grid and towers in rural landscape.
Bridgeman Arts
1950s: Electric cables connected to large metal tower
1950s: Electric cables connected to large metal tower. High voltage sign behind barbed wire. Electrical tower. Sign with elemental and shadow of scale. Shadow of hand drops items on shadow of scale.
Bridgeman Arts
A is for Atom part 2 - 1952 Cold War-era cartoon about atomic energy
American animation about atomic energy - atom - nuclear. Dr Atom illustrates the way protons , neutrons and electrons function. Periodic table of elements - elements are represented by buildings - explanation of function of isotopes -...
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Refrigerator Ruled Out As Source of Oakland Fire
A refrigerator was ruled out as the cause of a fire at a warehouse in Oakland that killed 36 people, but investigators were still looking at electrical systems as possible ignition sources, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...
Bloomberg
China Is Planning at Least 150 New Nuclear Reactors
China is emerging as the world’s great believer in nuclear power. After decades of opposition, budget blowouts and disasters elsewhere, the country has big plans for the power source. Bloomberg’s Dan Murtaugh reports on “Bloomberg...
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As wounded VA Tech students recover at area hospitals, their families are recounting tales of heroism and amazing survival.
HEADLINE: Parents tell chilling stories of survival
CAPTION: As wounded VA Tech students recover at area hospitals, their families are recounting tales of heroism and amazing survival. (April 17)
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CLEAN : Ethiopia: factory owner hopes power from new dam project will increase competitiveness
In Ethiopia manufacturing companies have suffered from weeks of blackouts during the most recent period of electricity rationing (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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VOICED : Knot a problem: Thai capital tackles street cables
Tangled electrical wires hang in huge bunches above many of Bangkok's crowded streets but local authorities have announced plans to tidy up the city's urban landscape and bury the cables underground
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Lam: HK government considered protesters' demands
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said early Tuesday it was "not true" to say her government had not considered protesters demands over the scrapping of a controversial extradition bill.
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Death Toll From Texas Storm Double What Initially Thought
They now say there are 111 deaths linked to the mid-February storm.