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The Danakil Depression is a desert area in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia, north of the Great Rift Valley that is widely known locally as the...

boom brought to halt by the 1929 stock market crash that led to the Great Depression. The New Deal policies of the 1930s included infrastructure projects...

rebels and criminal gangs. It is a Decade Volcano.   The Danakil Depression, part of the Great Rift Valley, has some unearthly landscapes, several geothermal...

largest theater district, and one of the nation's largest collection of pre-depression era skyscrapers. Two major traffic circles along Woodward Avenue surround...

title of a table service by the Rörstrand porcelain factory. With the Great Depression, the 1930 Stockholm exhibition and the 1931 manifesto acceptera (note...

(40 km/h) on a good day, if any decent roads were to be found); the Great Depression brought much road building as a make-work project for unemployed workers...

Hidatsa site has 110 depressions, the Sakakawea (Awatixa) site has 60 depressions and the Lower Hidatsa site has 40 depressions. This was once a thriving...

revitalize, and industries and their workers were hit hard by the Great Depression beginning in 1929. The nation went through a much broader industrial...

well documented in the mineral museum in town. In 1933 during the Great Depression, the notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde spent some weeks in Joplin...

two boldest examples. Their efforts were all but destroyed by the Great Depression, however, and Alberta defaulted on its debts in 1935, just as the United...

Canal was created. The city's economy slowed down again during the Great Depression and World War II, but experienced a renewed fervor with the establishment...

itself. With Indigenous cultures that go back over 65,000 years and truly global immigration in modern times, the country is famous for its natural wonders...

this day. In 1888, the boom collapsed and Victoria suffered through the depression of the 1890s. In 1901, the British colonies of Australia federated and...

for the princely sons of George III). Princes Street Gardens fill the depression between the Street and the Old Town heights, with the railway tracks at...

central North Island and forming the Volcanic Plateau. The resulting depression became Lake Taupo after it filled with water draining off the surrounding...

Belfast found itself the capital city of Northern Ireland and, after the Depression, busily tooling up to fight the Second World War. It slumped in the late...

accommodation in the surrounding suburbs. Durham suffered heavily during the Great Depression, however the university during this time thrived and expanded. St John's...

Bessie Smith, the empress of blues, and Ethel Waters. Kansas City The Great Depression (starting in 1929) marked the end of one of the greatest jazz eras...

appeal to a populace embittered by the surrender terms and the 1920s Great Depression. The Nazis gained national power in 1933 and promptly created their...

the Great Depression led to the withdrawal of this investment. Germany's economy was crippled, and the government's deflationary policy and global protectionism...