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while I post this astonishing news about a WORKING SCREW OF ARCHIMEDES in my very own extended neighborhood. Here is the Washington Post link

Let this clip whet your appetite: Flood Control Goes Greek Fed Up With Frequent Deluges, a Prince George's Town Turns to a Mathematician From 3rd Century B.C. for Help By Rosalind S. Helderman Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, November 24, 2007; Page B01 A working-class community in Prince George's County that has flooded four times in the past four years has put a technology more than 2,000 years old to work in a new $6 million pumping station that residents hope will keep their little town dry. The design, known as an Archimedes screw for the 3rd century B.C. Greek mathematician credited with conceiving it, employs a massive, slowly turning screw to lift a huge quantity of water up a short distance. The new station in Edmonston uses three of the screws to raise water the 20 feet necessary to get it up and out of the town and into a levee system that runs along the Anacostia River. --- Some of my readers are science-nuts, so I must place this here. This also links to an earlier post about the amazing Brugmansia tree growing madly, happily in Zone 9, just two houses down from the Archimedian Screw.  The location is earnest Edmonston, a tiny hamlet bordering the Anacostia River, hemmed in tight by Hyattsville and Riverdale Park.