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Vishaan Chakrabarti (B.S. Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and B.A. History of Art 1988)— architect and dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design; Peter H. Christensen – architectural historian; Gilmore David Clarke (B.S. 1913 landscape architecture and civil engineering) – designed the Central Park Zoo and the ...
Road sign at the European end of the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul. (Photo taken during the 28th Istanbul Marathon in 2006) The principle of vowel harmony, which permeates Turkish word-formation and suffixation, is due to the natural human tendency towards economy of muscular effort. [59] This principle is expressed in Turkish through three rules:
Berkeley astronomers used the ATA to pursue several science topics, some of which might have transient SETI signals, [40] [41] [42] until 2011, when the collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and the SETI Institute was terminated. CNET published an article and pictures about the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) on December 12 ...
Elected mainly on his performance with New York Yankees, Born in Berkeley, California: 44: Willie McCovey: 1B: 1976: Elected mainly on his performance with San Francisco Giants: 8: Joe Morgan: 2B: 1984: Elected mainly on his performance with Cincinnati Reds, raised in Oakland, California: 19: Dave Righetti: P: 1994: Born and raised in San Jose ...
"Enhanced interrogation techniques" or "enhanced interrogation" was a program of systematic torture of detainees by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and various components of the U.S. Armed Forces at remote sites around the world—including Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Bucharest, and Guantanamo Bay—authorized by officials of the George W. Bush administration.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (/ k ə ˈ r iː m æ b ˈ d uː l dʒ ə ˈ b ɑːr / kə-REEM ab-DOOL jə-BAR; born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. (/ æ l ˈ s ɪ n d ər / al-SIN-dər); April 16, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers.
Compton is a city located in the Gateway Cities region of southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, [9] situated south of downtown Los Angeles.Compton is one of the oldest cities in the county, and on May 11, 1888, was the eighth city in Los Angeles County to incorporate.