scholarly journals Commonwealth Bank - Stanway House, King Street, Sydney - Interior of banking chamber - 1913 (plate 205)

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LOGOS ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Colin Whurr
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2020 ◽  
pp. 283-290
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Stevan K. Pavlowitch

I was first ‘introduced’ to Stevan Pavlowitch thanks to Hurst sometime in 1993. A freshly arrived refugee from the former-Yugoslavia, unsure what to do with life and yet to begin my university studies in history, I was wandering the streets of Covent Garden when the Africa Centre bookshop on King Street caught my attention. Among the various books on African topics stood a biography of Tito, written by someone obviously of Yugoslav origin, but the spelling of whose surname suggested he had lived outside Yugoslavia for considerably longer than me. It was a Sunday afternoon, the only time I was off work (as a busboy and a barman in London clubs and pubs), and the bookshop was closed, to my disappointment. I stared at the book display for what seemed like a long time, excited and emotional, probably wondering who was Stevan K. Pavlowitch, what did he write about Tito, my (our?) former president, and why would an African cultural centre sell a biography of Yugoslavia’s late leader....


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Arthur Russell

John Henry Heuland, Fellow of the Geological Society, mineral collector and dealer of 25 King Street, St. James's, London, was born in 1778. He moved in 1839 to 31 Red Lion Square, London, where he remained until after 1850. Few details of his life are known, but his sale catalogues and his intense activity as a collector and dealer during the period when it was fashionable to form collections of minerals have secured him an important place in the historical archives of mineralogy.In what year Heuland began to deal in minerals is uncertain, but it was before 1804 when we have a record of his buying in Lisbon. He subsequently travelled through France, Germany, Sweden, and Russia, collecting and buying minerals wherever possible. About the year 1806 he came into the possession of a fine collection of nfinerals which had been formed on the Continent between the years 1766 and 1806 by his uncle Mr. Jacob Forster.


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W. Martin McCabe ◽  
Conrad W. Felice

Results are presented of a geotechnical investigation and foundation analysis as a component of the seismic retrofit to the Amtrak King Street Station in Seattle, Washington. The purpose of this effort was to assess the condition of the existing pile foundation, to quantify the foundation response to revised seismic loads, and to provide recommendations for retrofitting of the foundation. King Street Station is a one- to three-story brick masonry structure with a 12-story clock tower. The building was constructed in 1906 in the area of a reclaimed tide flat. The foundation for the structure consists of timber piles; however, no information was available on the length of the piles or whether they were treated with a preservative. The approximate length of the piles was established at 9.7 m using ground-penetrating radar. A core sample obtained from one of the timber piles showed them to be untreated timber and in good condition. The subsurface investigation revealed a liquefiable granular fill soil in the upper 6 m underlain by medium-dense marine sands overlying dense glacial soils. An engineering analysis of the expected performance of the piles during the design seismic event showed that the piles could settle approximately 100 to 355 mm because of liquefaction of the marine sand layer and that the deflection of the piles under lateral loading was substantially in excess of the static loads. Steel pipe minipiles were recommended as a mitigation measure.


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