America the Beautiful - The Seven State Express
Our road trip through American pacific north-west - Spring 2018
7 states - Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Utah
3 National Parks - Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Olympic National Park
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Sandhill Cranes return to Nebraska
Sandhill Cranes remain at the height of migration in Nebraska, stopping for weeks to refuel before continuing onwards in their many-thousand mile journey to Arctic summering grounds.
Cranes concentrated in Nebraska have come from Mexico, Cuba and across the southern United States. See a glimpse of their dawn takeoff from the Platte River and feeding in central Nebraska farmland. Footage came from a blind at the Rowe Sanctuary and nearby corn fields on April 1, 2014
Some of the cranes will head for Canada; others will travel as far as Siberia in their annual migration. For more on Sandhill Cranes and their primordial passage through Nebraska, check out the Rowe Sanctuary's website:
URGENT WARNING - York, Nebraska. Walmart is Banning Parking For Trucks On Their Parking Lot.
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Bratney Companies partners with Preferred Popcorn, LLC to build a state-of-the-art popcorn facility
Bratney Companies was selected by Preferred Popcorn, LLC to deliver their latest state of the art popcorn processing facility. This case study, Partners in Growth, showcases the similarities between the two multi-generation, family-owned companies and their shared commitment to innovation, quality and respect - traits that lead to a successful partnership and the completion of this technologically advanced plant.
Bratney delivered this green field agricultural processing facility turn key with a scope that included: facility design, process design, equipment selection, project management, construction management, installation, millwright services, equipment start-up and commissioning.
The facility design included receiving, pre-cleaning, precision cleaning, sorting, metal detection, material handling and featured automated packaging systems for a variety of bag sizes and materials. Supplementary processes included dust control, compressed air systems, electrical control and plant automation.
Bratney Companies is a design-build construction company specializing in agricultural processing. Bratney has multiple locations throughout the United States and in Argentina, as well as sales engineers and service technicians strategically located to serve our customers. With fully staffed divisions that include Construction, Millwrights, Process Design and Engineering, Equipment Sales, Customer Service and exclusive partnerships with the world's most respected brands of processing and packaging equipment, Bratney is uniquely positioned to provide ag producers with everything from turn-key agricultural plants to retrofits as well as individual process equipment and service. Visit bratney.com or email at info@bratney.com for more information.
State Facts - Colorado
50 states/50 facts - by kids for kids
How a septic tank works
This video was developed by Judith Torzillo for Healthabitat, to help explain the process of how a septic tanks works, what the by products are good for and the level of maintenance it needs to villages in Nepal receiving and working on The Village Sanitation Project.
It is now used to explain the process to anyone...
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam /ænˈtiːtəm/ also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with a combined tally of dead, wounded, and missing at 22,717.
After pursuing Confederate General Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Union Army Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan launched attacks against Lee's army, in defensive positions behind Antietam Creek. At dawn on September 17, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank. Attacks and counterattacks swept across Miller's cornfield and fighting swirled around the Dunker Church. Union assaults against the Sunken Road eventually pierced the Confederate center, but the Federal advantage was not followed up. In the afternoon, Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's corps entered the action, capturing a stone bridge over Antietam Creek and advancing against the Confederate right. At a crucial moment, Confederate Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill's division arrived from Harpers Ferry and launched a surprise counterattack, driving back Burnside and ending the battle. Although outnumbered two-to-one, Lee committed his entire force, while McClellan sent in less than three-quarters of his army, enabling Lee to fight the Federals to a standstill. During the night, both armies consolidated their lines. In spite of crippling casualties, Lee continued to skirmish with McClellan throughout September 18, while removing his battered army south of the Potomac River.
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Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:26 1 History
00:02:56 1.1 Zoo history timeline
00:12:10 2 Major exhibits
00:12:20 2.1 Lied Jungle
00:14:37 2.1.1 Notable points
00:15:35 2.2 Scott Kingdom of the Seas Aquarium
00:17:49 2.3 Garden of the Senses
00:18:27 2.4 Desert Dome
00:20:24 2.5 Kingdoms of the Night
00:21:50 2.6 Hubbard Gorilla Valley
00:22:47 2.7 Hubbard Orangutan Forest
00:23:53 2.8 Cat Complex
00:25:31 2.9 Exploration Station at the Wild Kingdom Pavilion
00:26:21 2.10 Tree of Learning
00:26:43 2.11 Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Pavilion Original Facility
00:27:32 2.12 Small Animal Collection
00:28:01 2.13 Butterfly and Insect Pavilion
00:28:35 2.14 Butterfly Conservatory
00:29:09 2.15 Conservation Promenade
00:30:08 2.16 Chrysalis Hatching Room
00:30:50 2.17 Insect Zoo
00:31:32 2.18 Lower Level
00:32:33 2.19 Simmons Aviary
00:33:29 2.20 Expedition Madagascar
00:34:27 2.21 African Grasslands
00:36:06 2.22 Asian Highlands
00:37:06 2.23 Owen Coastal Shores
00:37:38 2.24 Durham Family Bear Canyon
00:38:17 2.25 Other exhibits
00:38:42 3 Research
00:39:56 3.1 Mouse lemurs
00:40:20 4 Rides and transportation
00:40:30 4.1 Railroad
00:41:35 4.2 Tram
00:42:06 4.3 Skyfari
00:42:36 4.4 Carousel
00:42:52 5 Educational programs
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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- Socrates
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Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is a zoo in Omaha, Nebraska, located at 3701 South 10th Street. It can be accessed by I-80. It is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and a member of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Its mission is conservation, research, recreation, and education. In August 2014, TripAdvisor proclaimed Henry Doorly Zoo the world's best zoo, leading San Diego Zoo and Loro Parque, based on an algorithmic assimilation of millions of reviews for 275 major zoos worldwide.Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is nationally renowned for its leadership in animal conservation and research. Evolving from the public Riverview Park Zoo established in 1894, today the zoo includes several notable exhibits. It features the largest cat complex in North America; Kingdoms of the Night is the world's largest nocturnal exhibit and indoor swamp; the Lied Jungle is one of the world's largest indoor rainforests, and the Desert Dome is one of the world's largest indoor deserts, as well as the largest glazed geodesic dome in the world. The zoo is Nebraska’s top paid attendance attraction and has welcomed more than 25 million visitors over the past 40 years.
How Does The Civil War Qualify as the First Modern War?
For 5,800 years of recorded history, wars were fought with pre-modern forms of transportation ad communication, where the world was powered by windmills, watermills, literal horse power and human muscle. However, this all changed with the invention of the steam engine and its implementation in the 19th century. In fifty short years, macadamized roads, canals, steam trains, steam boats, steam presses and telegraph communication revolutionized the transfer of energy and power. By the 1850s, every aspect of western civilization looked and functioned differently than it had for thousands of years. It was in this milieu the Civil War was fought. What did the first modern war look like and how did it differ from previous wars? How did wartime observations by foreign emissaries alter the course of future wars?