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Amy Joy Wroe Bechtel (August 4, 1972 [4] – disappeared July 24, 1997; [5] declared legally dead 2004) is an American woman who disappeared while presumably jogging in the Wind River Mountains approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of Lander, Wyoming. Despite extensive investigative work and media portrayals, her case remains unsolved.
Bechdel test. The American cartoonist Alison Bechdel incorporated her friend's "test" into a strip in Dykes to Watch Out For. The Bechdel test ( / ˈbɛkdəl / BEK-dəl ), [1] also known as the Bechdel-Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction. The test asks whether a work features at least two female ...
Bunchgrass (BG) The Bunchgrass zone is the warmer of the two biogeoclimatic zones in British Columbia which lack trees. It is most commonly found in deeply incised valleys east of the Coast Mountains and within their rain shadow. Drought, not cold as in the Alpine Tundra (AT), minimizes forest or woodland development.
Biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification (BEC) [1] [2] is an ecological classification framework used in British Columbia to define, describe, and map ecosystem -based units at various scales, from broad, ecologically-based climatic regions down to local ecosystems or sites. [3] [4] BEC is termed an ecosystem classification as the approach ...
Texas Central Railway. Texas Central or Texas Central Partners, LLC, is a private company that is proposing to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. [3] It plans to use technology based on that used by the Central Japan Railway Company and trains based on the N700S Series Shinkansen.
Stephen Bechtel Sr. Relatives. Warren A. Bechtel (grandfather) Stephen Davison Bechtel Jr. (May 10, 1925 – March 15, 2021) was an American billionaire, businessman, civil engineer, and co-owner of the Bechtel Corporation. He was the son of Stephen Davison Bechtel Sr. and grandson of Warren A. Bechtel, who founded the Bechtel Corporation.
During World War II the United States was concerned about Japan attacking the west coast and cutting off supply lines to Alaska. They built the Alaska Highway to connect Alaska to the rest of the United States and conceived the CANOL (Canadian Oil) project to ensure a supply of oil from Norman Wells. The US War Department decided to construct ...
1993–present. Title. Correspondent/anchor. Children. 2. Aleksandra Martha Justine Bechtel (born October 1, 1972) is a Finnish-German TV-presenter and personality. [1] In 1993, she started working for the new TV channel VIVA Germany as a VJ. Bechtel, in 1996, starred with Matthias Opdenhövel in the TV-show Bitte lächeln on RTL II for two years.