Central Plains

Some articles on central plains:

May 1957 Central Plains Tornado Outbreak
... The May 1957 Central Plains tornado outbreak was a tornado outbreak that took place across the US Central Plains from May 19 to May 21, 1957 ...
Central Plains War
... Central Plains War (simplified Chinese 中原大战 traditional Chinese 中原大戰 pinyin Zhōngyúan Dàzhàn) was a civil war within the factionalised Kuomintang (KMT) that broke out in ... The war was fought across the Central Plains, a core region of China on the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the cradle of Chinese civilization ...
Central Plains Water - The Hearing of The Applications and Submissions - CPW Evidence
... moved the burden of proof for rebuttal onto the witnesses for Central Plains Water Trust ... The opening legal submission for Central Plains Water Trust summarised their technical evidence and concluded that any adverse effects of the scheme will either be adequately mitigated or will be insignificant ... The expert witnesses for Central Plains have provided many reports of technical evidence ...
Geography Of Texas - Physical Geography - North Central Plains
... The North Central Plains are bounded by the Caprock Escarpment to the west, the Edwards Plateau to the south, and the Eastern Cross Timbers to the east ... This area includes the North Central Plains around the cities of Abilene and Wichita Falls, the Western Cross Timbers to the west of Fort Worth, the Grand Prairie ...
Central Plains Water - The Feasibility Study Stage
... The constitution and terms of reference for the Central Plains Water Enhancement Steering Committee was approved on 14 February 2000 ... into the viability and practicality of water enhancement schemes in the Central Plains area. ... is to undertake feasibility studies for the Central Plains area sufficiently detailed to allow decisions on the advisability of proceeding to resource consent applications and ...

Famous quotes containing the words plains and/or central:

    “The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallow—the easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots don’t reach ground water—will dry up and blow away.”
    —Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)

    “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
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    An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)