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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Aswan Dam, Three Rivers Stadium, Riverfront Stadium, Early Founders Memorial Stone, Royal Commonwealth Pool, Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek, Estadio Elias Aguirre, Olivetti-Underwood Factory, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Regenstein Library, Mushroom House, Park Inn Berlin, Henry Memorial Center, Centro Cultural General San Martin, Danmarks Nationalbank, Cathedral of Brasilia, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, PostFinance Arena, Sundrome, One HSBC Center, One Boston Place, Wah Fu Estate, World Trade Center, Stock Exchange Tower, Daniel Building, 11 Stanwix Street, Five Penn Center, First National Bank Building, One Indiana Square, Tour Les Poissons, 1970 in architecture, Ordway Building, Leaside Towers, Fiberglas Tower, Euston Tower, St. David's Church, Shenley Green, Trust Bank Building, La Palmera, Mutual of Omaha Building, Ping Shek Estate, Lauinger Library, Burnside Hall, Drama Studio, University of Sheffield, Herman Clark Stadium, Obelisk of Sao Paulo, Midland Building, Basketball Center of Moscow Region, Palacio de los Deportes de Leon, Buccaneer Field, Tour Aurore, Belmopan Public Library. Excerpt: The Aswan Dam is an embankment dam situated across the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. Since the 1950s, the name commonly refers to the High Dam, which is larger and newer than the Aswan Low Dam, which was first completed in 1902. Construction of the High Dam became a key objective of the Egyptian Government following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, as the ability to control the flood waters, and harness the hydroelectric power that it could produce, were seen as pivotal to Egypt's industrialisation. The High Dam was constructed between 1960 and 1970. It aimed to increase economic production by further regulating the annual river flooding and providing storage of water for agriculture, and...
