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- •Rock Excavation in civil Engineering
- •Introduction to Remote Control Technology
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- •Introduction
- •Versatile Drillrig
- •Multiple Tasking in Western Australia
- •Improving Productivity
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- •Importance of Geology
- •Igneous Rocks
- •Investigation and Exploration
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- •4) Quote the sentences in which these words and word combinations are used:
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- •Vertical Crater Retreat
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- •Supplementary reading
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- •«Наукова англійська мова»
Supplementary reading:
Creating the Crazy Horse Memorial
The Pride of a People
To lose all that you possess is a tragedy, but to lose your pride will ensure that you remain dispossessed for all time. Chief Henry Standing Bear, of the Sioux, knew that his people needed a strong symbol of their past to remind the country and themselves that they are a proud part of American history. He and his fellow chiefs chose the legendary warrior Crazy Horse as their symbol. But the embodiment of the symbol was locked within Thunderhead Mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and only the removal of millions of tons of rock would reveal it. The chiefs chose Korczak Ziolkowski, a Boston-born sculptor, to take Crazy Horse from the mountain. Korczak had worked briefly as an assistant to Gutzon Borglum on the Mount Rushmore Memorial, depicting four United States Presidents, and so had a fair understanding of the task at hand. In 1940, he met with Chief Henry Standing Bear at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, but the project was delayed when Korczak volunteered to fight for his country during World War II. It was not until 1946 that he first viewed the 600 ft-high Thunderhead Mountain that was to become the Crazy Horse Monument. The following year, Korczak purchased 160 acres of land adjoining the site, set up his home in a tent, and in 1949 began work on the project.
Introduction
Fifty-five years have passed since Korczak Ziolkowski and his young wife Ruth, equipped with little more than a dream and unbelievable courage, undertook to remove the rock and create the monument. Since the morning when Korczak first walked to the mountain with drill and steel in hand and placed the first hole, several million tons of rock have been removed.
Today, the face of Crazy Horse gazes out across the hills where he once hunted buffalo and fought bravely in defence of the lands of his people. And although only the face is completed, already the dream of Henry Standing Bear and Korczak Ziolkowski is a reality. For anyone viewing the mountain for the first time cannot help but be deeply moved by all that it represents. When completed, Crazy Horse will sit astride his pony with his arm outstretched, and his hand pointing towards his homeland. The size of the statue is truly awe-inspiring. The head is 87.5 ft-high, the outstretched arm is 227 ft-long, and the horse's head is 219 ft-high. The full height of the completed work will be 563 ft, and it will have a length of 641 ft, making it the largest sculpture of its type in the world. By comparison, George Washington's head on nearby Mount Rushmore is about 60 ft-high. To turn a mountain into a sculpture through drilling and blasting away the surrounding rock is, to say the least, an unusual application for machines designed for mining. Korczak started his monumental task using hand held pneumatic drills, and all of the work on the head was completed in this way. However, when it came to blocking out the remainder of the statue, hand held machines were wholly inadequate for the task. The sheer volume of rock to be removed, before the more precise work of finishing the surface of the figure can begin, is immense.