COURLAND: And that's very interesting because concrete, by itself, has tremendous compressive strength. So assuming that a, you know, road is well-bedded, ...

Robert Courland is the author of “Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story…” (Prometheus, 2011). He’s based in San Francisco, California. This website uses cookies to improve your experience ...

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Whether looking at the past or the future, Courland makes a compelling case for concrete’s importance to humankind. Prometheus Books, 2011, 396 p., $26. Questions or comments on this article?

In Courland, otherwise known as Latvia, Jews faced a similar fate, although the expulsion was enforced a day or two later; most often on the holiday itself.

It was a time of trial and tribulation for World Jewry. Shavuot 1915 was one of the largest single expulsions of Jews since Roman times. Over 200,000 Jews in Lithuania and Courland would be ...

UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Located in the western part of Latvia, the town of Kuldīga is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional urban settlement, which developed from a small ...

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