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In September 2007, it was discovered that the Bow Ridge fault line ran underneath the facility, hundreds of feet east of where it was originally thought to be located, beneath a storage pad where spent radioactive fuel canisters would be cooled before being sealed in a maze of tunnels.
These attitudes, which valued the Bow's nature insofar as it suited human goals, were again exemplified in the events unfolding after an Alberta Environment official discovered a toxic " blob " in the Bow in October 1989.
Together with fellow artists Harrison Fisher and Neysa McMein he constituted the Motion Picture Classic magazine's, " Fame and Fortune " contest jury of 1921-22, who discovered the It-girl, Clara Bow.
Together with artists Howard Chandler Christy and Harrison Fisher, McMein constituted the Motion Picture Classic magazine's, " Fame and Fortune " contest jury of 1921 / 1922, who discovered the It-girl, Clara Bow.
In the report, McKeown found that the lemming scene was filmed not at the Arctic Ocean, but at the Bow River near downtown Calgary, where the lemmings were forced into the river ; in addition, he also discovered that the footage of a polar bear cub falling down an Arctic ice slope was in actuality filmed in a Calgary film studio.
Not a single bookseller possessed a copy, but the publishing offices of Calder and Boyars, within the Bow Street Magistrate's jurisdiction, were discovered to be in possession of three copies.
The victim was discovered on the line between Bow and Hackney Wick and was brought initially into the Mitford Castle public house ( now the Top o ' the Morning ) in Cadogan Terrace and subsequently taken home where he died.

Bow and she
Later, she switched to the independent Broken Bow Records label.
The film, a war picture, was rewritten to accommodate Clara Bow, as she was Paramount's biggest star, but wasn't happy about her part: "( Wings is ).. a man's picture and I'm just the whipped cream on top of the pie ".
Clara Bow was born in 1905 in a slum tenement in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, New York, where she was also raised.
Still, Bow felt deprived of her childhood ; " As a kid I took care of my mother, she didn't take care of me ".
As Bow grew up she felt shy among other girls, who teased her for her worn-out clothes and " carrot-top " hair.
" At sixteen Bow " knew " she wanted to be a motion pictures actress, even if she was a " square, awkward, funny-faced kid ".
A set member later stated that when Bow did the scene she actually became her character and " lived it ".
Bow wasn't told, but found out when she saw the movie at a theater in Brooklyn.
Bow, who dropped out of school after she was notified about winning the contest, possibly in October 1921, got an ordinary office job.
In an attempt to overcome her youthful looks, Bow put her hair up and arrived in a dress she ' sneaked ' from her mother.
Clifton said she was too old, but broke into laughter as the stammering Bow made him believe she was the girl in the magazine.
Clifton decided to bring Bow with him and offered her $ 50 a week, but added he couldn't say whether or not she would " fit the part ".
Bow met her first boyfriend, cameraman Arthur Jacobson, and she got to know director Frank Tuttle, with whom she worked in five later productions.
In late July, Bow entered studio chief B. P. Schulberg's office wearing a simple high-school uniform in which she " had won several gold medals on the cinder track ".
Before Maytime was finished, Schulberg announced that Bow was given the lead in the studio's biggest seasonal assessment, Poisoned Paradise, but first she was lent to First National Pictures to co-star in the adaptation of Gertrude Atherton's 1923 bestseller Black Oxen, shot in October, and to co-star with Colleen Moore in Painted People, shot in November.
" No more flappers ... they have served their purpose ... people are tired of soda-pop love affairs ", she told the Los Angeles Times, that commented a month earlier, " Clara Bow is the one outstanding type.
Bow felt Alton had misused her trust ; " She wanted to keep a hold on me so she made me think I wasn't getting over and that nothing but her clever management kept me going ".
In a scene, described as " original ", Bow adds " devices ", to " the modern flapper "; she fights a villain, using her fists, and significantly, does not " shrink back in fear ".
Adela Rogers St. Johns had a different take: in 1950, she wrote, " If ever a star was made by public demand, it was Clara Bow ".
" Rehearsals sap my pep ", Bow explained in November, 1929 and from the beginning of her career she relied on immediate direction: " Tell me what I have to do and I'll do it ".
* Years after Bow left Hollywood, director Victor Fleming compared Bow to a Stradivarius violin: " Touch her and she responded with genius ".

Bow and grew
The name " Bow " refers to the reeds that grew along its banks and were used by the local First Nations peoples to make bows ; the Peigan name for the river is " Makhabn ", meaning " river where bow reeds grow ".
Eventually the park grew to include the Bow Glacier, an outflow of the Wapta Icefield and the supplier of the water for the Bow River.
The name " Bow " refers to the reeds that grew along its banks and which were used by the local First Nations peoples to make bows ; the Peigan name for the river is " Makhabn ", meaning " river where bow weeds grow ".

Bow and into
" On the ride into battle his spur struck the bridge stone of the Bow Bridge ; legend has it that, as his corpse was being carried from the battle over the back of a horse, his head struck the same stone and was broken open.
* London Under Livingstone-The Bow Group report into the Mayor )
By the 1840s Whitechapel, along with the enclaves of Wapping, Aldgate, Bethnal Green, Mile End, Limehouse, Bow, Bromley-by-Bow, Poplar, Shadwell and Stepney ( collectively known today as " the East End "), had evolved, or devolved, into classic " Dickensian " London, with problems of poverty and overcrowding.
Bow remembered their reunion ; " I didn't care a rap, for ( Maxine Alton ), or B. P. Schulberg, or my motion picture career, or Clara Bow, I just threw myself into his arms and kissed and kissed him, and we both cried like a couple of fool kids.
The picture exposes the widespread liquor traffic in the upper-classes, and Bow portrays an innocent girl who develops into a wild " redhot mama ".
Three days later, it was announced that Schulberg would join with Adolph Zukor to become associate producer of Paramount Pictures, "... catapulted into this position because he had Clara Bow under personal contract ".
* Variety: " Clara Bow just walks away with the picture from the moment she walks into camera range ".
In 1999 film historian Leonard Maltin said, " You think of Greta Garbo, Lillian Gish, all these great names, great actresses, Clara Bow was more popular in terms of box-office dollars, in terms of consistently bringing audiences into the theaters, she was right on top.
As the Union Pacific Railroad was pushing west to link up with the Central Pacific Railroad, as part of the First Transcontinental Railroad, they sent logging crews into the Snowy Range, in the Medicine Bow Mountains, to cut down timber ( mainly Lodgepole Pine ) for railroad ties.
One of the deadliest incidents in Stampede history occurred in 2005 when, late in a trail ride meant to help celebrate the province's centennial, a group of about 200 horses spooked and in the melee nine horses were killed after they were pushed off a city bridge into the Bow River.
During the so-called Buffalo Wars ( about 1850-1870 ) they penetrated further and further into the territory from the Niitsitapi Confederacy in search for the buffalo, so that the Piegan were forced to evade in the region of the Missouri River ( in Cree: Pikano Sipi-" Muddy River ", " Muddy, turbid River "), the Kainai ( in Cree: Miko-Ew-" stained with blood ", i. e. " the bloodthirsty, cruel ", therefore, in English often referred to as Blood ) withdraw to the Bow River and Belly River, only the Siksika could hold their tribal lands along the Red Deer River.
The emergence of the New Romantic movement into the mainstream coincided with Vivienne Westwood's unveiling of her " pirate collection ", which was promoted by Bow Wow Wow and Adam and the Ants, who were managed by her then partner Malcolm McLaren.
Known as the " Blind Beak of Bow Street ", John Fielding refined the patrol into the first truly effective police force for the capital, later adding officers mounted on horseback.
The aircraft crashed into Medicine Bow Peak, near Centennial, Wyoming, killing all 66 people on board ( 63 passengers, 3 crew members.
It turned Clara Bow from a movie star into a legend.
Following the Stuart Restoration, on 28 December 1661, Harrington was arrested on a charge of conspiring against the government in the " Bow Street " cabal and, without a trial, was thrown into the Tower.
Hui was then promoted to " First Bow " (, Gōng Zhèng ) and bestowed the surname, whichwhen broken into its constituent radicalsmeans " widening bow " or " archer ".
In 1881 he was initiated into the warrior society, the Priesthood of the Bow.
As happened earlier at Bow Brickhill to the south of Milton Keynes, a US speculator has bought agricultural land at Abbey View near Sherington Bridge, divided it into domestic sized plots and is attempting to sell these off as suitable " in the future " for self-build development.
Bow ties, or slight variations thereof, have also made their way into women's wear, especially business attire.
The contract for the excavation of the cut was split into two, with Charles Dingley, owner of the wharf and also a trustee, getting the southern section up to Rose Lane and Jeremiah Ilsley getting the northern section to Bow Locks.
This was followed in 2005 by the closure of distribution depots at Bow, Chelmsford and Maidstone with the task being integrated into Dagenham Regional Distribution Centre and depots at Hackbridge and Croydon with the remainder of the London Accounts being serviced by Greenford.

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