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East-West (The Butterfield Blues Band album)

East-West is the second album by The Butterfield Blues Band, released in 1966 on Elektra Records, EKS 7315 in stereo, EKL 315 in mono. It was recorded at the famed Chess Studios on 2120 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago. It peaked at #65 on the Billboard pop albums chart, but is regarded as highly influential by rock and blues music historians.

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Darfur, though, lying some six hundred miles across scorching semidesert plains to the west of the middle Nile, or nearly halfway between the Nile and the Niger, a group of ruins of widely different period and appearance can still yield some notion of the extent and variety, whether Islamic or Christian, of these east-west contacts through many centuries.

The north-south and east-west directions are two independent spatial dimensions in which a car can move.

Even the east-west and west-east mail satellites, which dropped their own skyhooks from orbits a little above, or below, synchronous orbit, were constrained to an equatorial run.

As a result of the work of geometrician John Legon, who has undertaken a detailed analysis of the site-plans and grids provided by modern Egyptologists (such as Selim Hassan, Reisner, Holscher, Ricke and Lauer), we now know that this anomalous nonconformity nevertheless incorporates its own strict symmetry: ‘while the causeway of the Third Pyramid is aligned due east-west, the causeways of the Second and Great Pyramids both have a bearing of 14 degrees—the former to the south and the latter to the north of due east.

For a few diesel-fumed miles, east-west Interstate 40, spanning the United States between North Carolina and California, converges in West Memphis, Arkansas, with north-south I-55, connecting New Orleans to Chicago.

It was a magnificent affair measuring over 2,000 feet east-west and 1,100 feet north-south, with evacuated pipes 12 inches across to carry the beams, and concrete boxes for the mirrors, lenses, and beam splitters.

Three tiers high, its roof steeply pitched, it rested on stilts over the meeting point of the two broad irrigation canals that ran north-south and east-west, feeding the great latticework of smaller channels.

The largest of these was Terranova, a vast, east-west sprawling conglomeration of every conceivable type of geographic region, dominating the southern hemisphere and extending from beyond the pole to cross the equator at its most northerly extremity.

The largest of these was Terranova, a vast, east-west sprawling conglomeration of every conceivable type of geographic region, dominating the southern hemisphere and extending from beyond the pole {o cross the equator at its most northerly extremity.

Like that of the Americas, Africa's major axis is north-south, whereas Eurasia's is east-west (Figure 10.

The machine tries to block your path by building one of its own in the East-West direction-the little neons light up to tell you which way it wants to make a move.

They accelerated to 200 and in moments they were swinging onto the East-West Expressway and roaring toward Oakbrook, well spaced among the other privileged cars in the innermost of five eastbound lanes.

A further likely example is the east-west spread of crops within Africa's wide Sahel zone, but paleobotanists have yet to work out the details.

A further likely example is the east-west spread of crops within Africa’s wide Sahel zone, but paleobotanists have yet to work out the details.

The East-West confrontation which had predated his birth was now a thing of history, and who would have believed that?