Decade ("60s" or "sixties"), although this may leave it uncertain which century is meant. These references are frequently used to encapsulate popular culture or other widespread phenomena that dominated such a decade, as in "The Great Depression of the 1930s" or "The Roaring Twenties". However, the Gregorian calendar begins with the year 1. (There is no year "zero", and the year before AD 1 is 1 BC with nothing in between.) Therefore, its "first" decade is from AD 1 to AD 10, the "second" decade from AD 11 to AD 20, and so on. So, although "the 1960s" comprises the years
Roaring Meg hydro scheme Roaring Meg hydro scheme The Roaring Meg hydro scheme refers to two small hydro electricity power stations fed by the Roaring Meg Dam. The scheme is located next to the Roaring Meg Stream in the Kawarau Gorge, near Cromwell, New Zealand. Roaring Meg is owned and operated by Pioneer Energy. The scheme was built by the Otago Central Power Board starting in 1934 and commissioned 1936, at a cost of 40,000 pounds. At times the lower station has been flooded by the Kawarau River. The scheme starts with the high Roaring Meg Dam located upstream from the confluence with the