Stephen Willis, the Smith Tower's docent and de facto historian, has encountered many odd theories in the 10 years he has guided visitors through the building.
As we're guided seamlessly through the building's baroque halls, its back staircases and its stupendous art collection, we come across "ghosts" from St Petersburg's past: Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Tsar Nicholas II dining with his family, a soldier at the Siege of Leningrad, a full-on state ball, not to mention modern-day tourists.
Over the course of the semester, students enrolled in the plant systematics course were guided through numerous tree building activities, during and outside of class time.
As the team worked to remove the documents, they guided Rabin through the buildings, allowing him first pick of the patents for corsets or parachutes or typewriters — whatever they were clearing that day.
"Look, you can see a community being formed in front of your eyes," said Carolos Henrique Oliveira, who guided the Guardian through the building.
Mark Jackson recently started a consulting company to lead others through the process, having guided the building of Sweetwater for several years as an almost full-time volunteer.
Guiding a visitor through the building, he pointed to improvements like the newly reinforced foundation and new utility lines, windows and brickwork.
Indoor navigation technologies rely on accurately determining the position of a moving person or robot to guide her actively through the building.
The aims of this study were to: a) examine what attracted Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian health professionals to MEHA and its initial project, b) identify challenges and barriers faced, and c) draw lessons for a model to guide the building of cooperation networks through international health initiatives.
