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Riverbend Houses
Riverbend may refer to: * A knee or a meander in a river Places Australia * Riverbend, Queensland, a suburb in Logan City Canada *Riverbend, Calgary, a neighborhood in Calgary, Alberta *Riverbend, Edmonton *Riverbend, a village in Quebec, now part of the town of Alma United States * Riverbend, California, community in Fresno County *Riverbend, Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood of Columbus *Riverbend (Hudson County), two sections of Hudson County, New Jersey * Riverbend, Montana, census-designated place in Mineral County * Riverbend (Tampa), a neighborhood within the City of Tampa, Florida *Riverbend, Washington, census-designated place in King County * Riverbend, Illinois, a small region part of the Metro East of the St Louis Metropolitan area Other *Riverbend Apartments, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States *Riverbend (blogger) *Riverbend (estate) historic house in Kohler, Wisconsin *Riverbend Festival, annual music festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States * ''Riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knee (geography)
{{unreferenced, date=July 2015 A knee, or river knee, is a bend in a river changing its course greatly, suddenly to a different general direction (in an angle of around 90 degrees). It is different from most (one-off) riverbends, and from a (particular) meander which connotes one of several bends in a sinuous course, without changing the general direction. Knees navigable by large vessels or set in upland areas or arid drainage basins were similar to major confluences in that they were particularly suitable for trade and defense, and therefore gave rise to forts, governing army camps or cities. Many major world rivers have such a notable knee close to major settled places: * the Rhine knee in Basel, Switzerland is the river's greatest knee – others are in German cities Wiesbaden and Bingen * the Danube knee in Vác, Hungary (35 km north of Budapest) * the Volga knee at Volgograd, Russia * the upper Rhône knee at Martigny, Switzerland * the Petitcodiac knee at Moncto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Bend (Illinois)
The River Bend is a small region in western central Illinois and Southern Illinois that comprises parts of Madison County and Jersey County. The name comes from a section of the Mississippi River that flows roughly west to east instead of the usual north to south, causing a bend in the river. The area is within the Metro East region, which is within the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan area. The western boundary is dictated by the flow of the Mississippi river, beginning at the confluence of the Illinois and ending at the confluence of the Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t .... The eastern boundary stretches through a contiguous urbanized area revolving around the cities of Alton and Wood River. List of communities within the River Bend Cities Village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverbend Maximum Security Institution
The Riverbend Maximum Security Institution (RMSI) is a prison in Nashville, Tennessee, operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. The prison opened in 1989 and replaced its 100-year-old neighbor, the Tennessee State Penitentiary. RMSI, which is made up by 20 different buildings, sits on located off Cockrill Bend Boulevard in Nashville, TN. Riverbend's designated capacity is 714 offenders. Of that number, 480 are classified as high risk. The prison's overall mission is to ensure the safety of the public, departmental employees and inmates by managing high-risk male offenders. Warden Mays oversees a staff of nearly 400 people, including administrative workers, correctional officers, unit managers and medical personnel. Education programs at the prison include GED and Adult Basic Education. There are also vocational classes available for printing, commercial cleaning, industrial maintenance, cabinet making/millwork and computer information systems. TRICOR, the prison indust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverbend Mall
Riverbend Mall was a shopping mall located in Rome, Georgia. It was open from 1975 to 2002, when it was demolished and replaced with a strip mall. The mall was built by the Ledbetter family, local developers that continue to own the property it sits on today. The Mall was the scene of a notorious kidnapping on September 25, 1982, of thirteen-year-old Lisa Ann Millican, by sexual predators Alvin and Judith Neelley. Millican was subsequently murdered by the Neelleys. Early history At its peak, the mall contained three anchors: Belk Rhodes, Miller Brothers, and J. C. Penney. All three anchors were only one story and the JCPenney was one of the smallest in the chain. Other stores in the mall included a Revco Drug (later CVS), Morrison's Cafeteria, Circus World (later KB Toys), GNC, Riverbend Cinema, World Bazaar, Walden Books, Martin's Men's Wear, Dollar Tree, Faye's Hallmark, Briar Patch, King & Queen Salon, The Fun Tunnel, Chick-fil-a, FATS BBQ, and Baskin-Robbins. In 1986, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverbend High School
Riverbend High School is a public secondary school located in Spotsylvania, Virginia, and is part of Spotsylvania County Public Schools. Opened in 2004, Riverbend is Spotsylvania County's newest high school. The school mascot is a bear and the school colors are royal blue and emerald green. The high school has an enrollment of around 2,000 students in grades 9-12. Athletics Riverbend High School is part of the AAA Commonwealth District and offers volleyball, boys' and girls' tennis, lacrosse, cross country, boys' and girls' soccer, field hockey, cheerleading, football, golf, boys' and girls' basketball, wrestling, swimming, baseball, softball, and spring track and field. The girls' soccer team defeated Courtland 2–0 for the 2007 AA VHSL state title. Riverbend High School was home to Billy Harris, a three time Free Lance-Star Tennis Player of the Year. He won 4 district titles, three AA and one AAA. Performing arts Band Under the current direction of Zachary Wadsworth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverbend (film)
''Riverbend'' is a 1989 film directed by Sam Firstenberg. The screenplay was written by Samuel Vance, who produced the film. Plot Three rebellious African-American army officers disobey orders in Vietnam and refuse to destroy a village inhabited with innocent people. They are sent to Georgia and are going to be court-martialed. The officers know that justice will not be served and manage to escape. The fugitives end up in the small town of Riverbend, taking refuge in the home of a sympathetic widow. The town is controlled by a brutal, racist sheriff who kills those opposing him and takes whatever he wants from the terrified residents. This bothers one of the officers who, with plans to take down the sheriff, convinces the others to help him create a secret training camp in the woods. They then begin recruiting the local African-Americans men and training them for combat. When they are prepared, the angry rebels take over the town, incarcerate the sheriff and all his cohorts and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverbend Festival
The Riverbend Festival, also called ''Riverbend'', is a well-known annual music festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which was started in June 1982 as a five-night festival. Over the years, the festival grew into the three nights of its current run and presently ranks in the top 10 percent of all American festivals. Additionally, Riverbend has won several national awards from the International Festivals and Events Association, including 8 in 2007. The attendance for Riverbend has grown over the years and there are now regularly over 650,000 people that come over the course of the festival from all over Tennessee, the Southeast, the United States, and other countries. Individual nights can see some 80,000 people in attendance. The festival was named for the bend in the Tennessee River on which Chattanooga was established. More than a hundred acts, both well-known and new, converge each year to perform various kinds of music, including classic rock, country, urban, and bluegrass, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverbend Environmental Education Center
Riverbend may refer to: * A knee or a meander in a river Places Australia * Riverbend, Queensland, a suburb in Logan City Canada *Riverbend, Calgary, a neighborhood in Calgary, Alberta *Riverbend, Edmonton *Riverbend, a village in Quebec, now part of the town of Alma United States * Riverbend, California, community in Fresno County *Riverbend, Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood of Columbus *Riverbend (Hudson County), two sections of Hudson County, New Jersey *Riverbend, Montana, census-designated place in Mineral County * Riverbend (Tampa), a neighborhood within the City of Tampa, Florida * Riverbend, Washington, census-designated place in King County * Riverbend, Illinois, a small region part of the Metro East of the St Louis Metropolitan area Other * Riverbend Apartments, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States * Riverbend (blogger) * Riverbend (estate) historic house in Kohler, Wisconsin * Riverbend Festival, annual music festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverbend (estate)
The Kohler Riverbend Estate is an historic property located in Kohler, Wisconsin. It was built in 1922–1923 By Walter J. Kohler, Sr., then governor of Wisconsin and president of the Kohler Company. It was reported to cost in excess of $1,000,000 to construct (). History Kohler commissioned architect Richard Philipp, of the Milwaukee firm of Brust & Philipp, to design the house. Phillip had previously designed a house for Walter's father, John Michael Kohler. Phillip had also previously worked on the '' Kohler Village'' for Walter Kohler, designing most of the new structures built from 1916 through the mid-1920s. Kohler commissioned the Olmsted Brothers, well known for creating Central Park in New York City and the Harvard and Stanford campuses, to design the grounds of the estate. The grounds were landscaped in the English tradition to accentuate the natural beauty of the site that captivated Walter and his wife Charlotte. The design of the house and grounds was inspired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverbend (blogger)
__NOTOC__ Riverbend is the pseudonymous author of the blog "Baghdad Burning", launched on August 17, 2003. Riverbend's existence and identity remain a mystery, but the weblog entries suggest that she is a young Iraqi woman from a mixed Shia and Sunni family, living with her parents and brother in Baghdad. Before the United States occupation of Iraq she was a computer programmer. She writes in an idiomatic English with, as James Ridgeway notes in the introduction to the Feminist Press edition of her work, "a slight American inflection". This has led to some controversy over her identity, as some claim she is an American who used a pseudonym to express their thoughts on U.S. involvement in Iraq. These concerns increased when a blogger did try to imitate the young blogger by creating a blog and using the name riverSbend to confuse those who followed the original blog. Riverbend talked about this blogger and corrected the narrative in her blog post on Wednesday, October 29, 2003. Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverbend Apartments
Riverbend Apartments was an infamous 600-unit apartment complex located in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, off Interstate 285. It has been described as Atlanta's most notorious singles complex. The apartment complex was also the plot setting for part of the 2002 film ''Catch Me If You Can''. History Located in Cumberland district of Atlanta, Riverbend got its name from the fact that it overlooked a bend in the Chattahoochee River. Developed by Crow, Pope & Land Enterprises in the early 1970s, Riverbend was one of the 1970s Atlanta's most notorious landmarks of sexual hedonism. It was named by ''Playboy'' as ground zero of the Sexual Revolution, due to its clubhouse keg A keg is a small barrel. Wooden kegs made by a cooper were used to transport nails, gunpowder, and a variety of liquids. A keg is normally now constructed of stainless steel, although aluminium can be used if it is coated with plastic on th ...gers and nude pool parties. By the late 1970s, laws that prohibited "n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverbend, Washington
Riverbend is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,132 at the 2010 census. Based on per capita income, one of the more reliable measures of affluence, Riverbend ranks 87th of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked. Geography Riverbend is located in east-central King County at (47.469614, -121.754279), in the valley of the South Fork of the Snoqualmie River. It is bordered to the north, across Interstate 90, by the city of North Bend. Riverbend is served by Exit 32 on I-90, which leads west to downtown Seattle and east over Snoqualmie Pass to Ellensburg. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 2.37%, are water. Demographics At the 2000 census there were 2,230 people, 775 households, and 612 families in the CDP. The population density was 740.2 people per square mile (286.0/km²). There were 791 housing units at a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
