Anchored by a 320-acre man-made lake, it counts singer Celine Dion among the well-heeled owners, but saw home values plunge, sales stall and foreclosures rise.
The Shanghai Poly Theater, by Tadao Ando, is now under construction in Jiading, China, next to a man-made lake in the center of a large park.
The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.
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Funding was never found to launch another Beagle to Mars while it is likely that another attempt will be made on Lake Ellsworth.
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None of the estimated 12, 000 barrels of oil that spilled has made it to nearby Lake Conway, a local drinking water source, Faulkner County Judge Allen Dodson told KATV Sunday said.
Then, four days later, flying touch-and-go landings in a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star with Chuck Yeager, the wheels became stuck in a lake bed made wet by recent rain where they had to await rescue.
The Merzbarn in the Lake District was made at a desperate time in his life, when Schwitters found himself subsisting, with a serious heart condition, in dank English lodgings on the proceeds of academic portraits and landscapes, despondent that he could not even obtain an interview with the director of the National Gallery in London.
Seizing their chance, Mr. Ahmad said he and his friends made a dash for the nearby lake.
Earlier this month, Nolan Calvin and Mark Blackstone were enjoying a fishing trip on the same lake, when they made the grim discovery.
But the fact it propelled American teen idol Apolo Anton Ohno to gold, and sparked wild celebration at the Salt Lake Ice Center, made it all the more galling for the Koreans.
But last year they made the decision to head to Salt Lake City to watch the Winter Olympics at first hand.
Beckham's side, head into the final as favourites against Salt Lake, who only just made the play-offs by finishing fifth in the Western Conference.
Explore the vast area on a golf cart, hopping on and off to see abbreviated operas from the Tang Dynasty days, laser shows on the lake, elaborate man-made waterfalls, as well as murals and statues of historical figures, philosophers and poets.
Stroking slowly I made my way down the length of the lake, covering a cool 3km.
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Or do we reach out to somebody in Salt Lake City, Utah, where Romney made a name for himself as the CEO of the '02 Olympic Games?
At that time, Larry was the owner of Computers Made Easy, the Novell Platinum Reseller south of Salt Lake City.
Six weeks ago Microsoft executives made an unsolicited call to Mr. Bates and Silver Lake's Mr. Durban, said people familiar with the matter.
Round midnight antique trucks arrived to carry the revellers home to outlying encampments, their headlights dancing away into the darkness while I made my way back to my cold yurt past the lake brimming with moonlight.
He added to his two silvers from Salt Lake City in his first two events and finally made his breakthrough with another virtuoso display.
Another park impresario made it worse: In 1959, Robert Moses filled in the lake, and left Lincoln to gaze at the rear fence of a skating rink for 52 years.
Detailed studies of the surface indicate that these were formed by a lake caused by the flow of underground water that periodically made its way to the bottom of the crater.
Australia's Drew Ginn and James Tompkins made all the running down the 2000-metre course on the Idroscalo Lake in Milan, Italy.
The buy-out of the remaining shares will be carried out by a consortium made up of Mr Dell himself, his own investment fund, and Silver Lake.
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One client is Maryanne Ingemanson, 77 years old, who made a fortune in California real-estate development and now lives on the shores of Lake Tahoe, Nev.
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Sporting an assortment of textiles, ethnic art and locally made furniture, 6 on Sixteen has just six sparsely decorated rooms close to Hoan Kiem Lake.
Ahead of this week's ministerial meeting, the federal government announced changes it wanted made to the Boundary Waters Treaty in order to prevent bulk water exports, and referred the Lake Superior case to the International Joint Commission, which deals with boundary waters.
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