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Postscriptum, PS (łac. post scriptum, P.S.) – dopisek do listu, artykułu itp., umieszczony na końcu, po podpisie autora. Oznaczany jest skrótowcem „PS”, przy którym w języku polskim (w przeciwieństwie do języka łacińskiego) nie stawia się kropek .
Today, the main stem of the Chicago River flows west from Lake Michigan to Wolf Point, where it converges with the North Branch to flow into the South Branch, where the river's course goes south and west to empty in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
22 paź 2024 · The impact of the Chicago River on trade – and how the city changed because of it – was monumental. The modern city of Chicago first began in the early 1800s as a U.S. military outpost, Fort Dearborn, a key port for large trading vessels. The city grew from a population of just 4,500 in 1840, to 300,000 in 1870, to more than 1.6 million in ...
Post scriptum to łacińskie sformułowanie, które oznacza dopisek do listu, artykułu itp. Umieszcza się go na końcu tekstu, po podpisie autora. W języku polskim często używa się skróconej formy PS, po której nie stawia się kropki. Zwyczajowo po dopisku umieszcza się inicjał imienia lub nazwiska.
In a herculean effort to save the city from the ravages of typhoid, cholera, and other waterborne illnesses, engineer Sylvester Chesbrough suggested Chicago reverse the direction of its river away from the lake and toward the Mississippi River.
To many Chicago residents, the Chicago River is a body of water dyed green on St. Patrick's Day, or a river that flows backwards from its original mouth at Lake Michigan, or the cause of a 1992 flood in the Loop.
27 maj 2015 · In 1871, during a period of particularly low water, the city pumped water from the Chicago River into the Illinois and Michigan Canal to maintain its level, which led Chicago’s sewage to float away from Lake Michigan. This sight would inspire the river’s permanent reversal, a task that the government decided to take on in 1887.
