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A 26,000-year monument hidden at Hoover Dam
Monument Plaza at Hoover Dam features something most visitors walk right over without noticing: a terrazzo floor designed as a celestial map marking the dam's 1936 completion using Earth's axial ...
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You probably missed this monument 'hiding' at the Hoover Dam
The Hoover Dam was finished in 1936. It took roughly five years to complete the massive dam located along the Nevada-Arizona ...
Hydropower output at Hoover Dam is down by about half since 2000. Lakes Mead and Powell are approaching critical thresholds below which hydropower generation would be severely curtailed or cease.
On Sept. 30, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam, only he wouldn’t use that name for the dedication.
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