Researcher on Yemen, dipping my toes in Maritime Security and Logistics | BA Ohio University, MA Georgetown University | Posts about the Middle East, Appalachia, and what I'm reading | From WV/Mid-Ohio Valley, based in DC
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 14/20
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 13/20
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Montgomery C. Meigs is secretly one of the most important people in DC architectural history!
He oversaw the Washington Aqueduct and the Capitol expansion, served as Quartermaster General during the Civil War, founded Arlington National Cemetery, and designed the Building Museum!
The Reservoir was built as part of the Washington Aqueduct project headed by Montgomery Meigs (US Army Quartermaster during Civil War, architect of the Building Museum) to bring water from a dam at Great Falls to the city
This project also included Union Arch Bridge over Cabin John Creek
So DC water is out, which sucks, but on a positive note I got really into the DC water supply in 2022 and this is a great time to bring out fun facts
The water's out because they found turbidity at Dalecarlia Reservoir west of the city, where DC has gotten much of its water supply since the 1850s
The Reservoir was built as part of the Washington Aqueduct project headed by Montgomery Meigs (US Army Quartermaster during Civil War, architect of the Building Museum) to bring water from a dam at Great Falls to the city
This project also included Union Arch Bridge over Cabin John Creek
Like much of the city's infrastructure that it doesn't like to talk about, the Washington Aqueduct was built using slave labor, with a workforce of 700 free and enslaved laborers working for much of the 1850s to built the 18-mile long project
Originally ending at Georgetown Reservoir, in the late 1800s the system was extended via tunnel to McMillan Reservoir near Howard
When it was finished, the McMillan Plant (which took over tonight when Dalecarlia went offline) used state of the art sand filtration stacks that can still be seen today
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 13/20
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 12/20
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 12/20
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 11/20
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Who are you in Appalachia's Warring States period?
I obviously want to be the State of Chu (WV/SE OH) but that's a bad spot so have to go with Eastern Wu (Pennsylvania)
Over two centuries before Tulla's correction of the Rhine, Pan remade the Yellow River, creating many of the same advantages and the same problems that would harry human efforts at river control
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 11/20
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 10/20
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 10/20
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 9/20
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 9/20
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 8/20
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Most people don't realize how *modern* cholera is. It is endemic to India, and it's global spread was only made possible by the connections and devastation wrought by imperialism. The first pandemic wasn't until 1817. Didn't hit Europe til the 1830s. John Snow was confronting a fairly novel disease.
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 8/20
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 7/20
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How is it I've never heard of FREE FIRE (2016) before? Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Sharlto Copley, and a bunch of character actors in a big shootout between IRA members and weapons dealers in 1970s Boston this movie was fuckin' made for me. Executive produced by Martin Scorcese!
