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22 hours ago · Prominent examples include: the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge Little Eaton Gangway of 1793; the 3 ft 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (1,035 mm) gauge Lake Lock Rail Road of 1796; the 2 ft 1 ⁄ 2 in (622 mm) gauge Penrhyn Railroad of 1801; and the 4 ft 2 in (1,270 mm) gauge Surrey Iron Railway of 1803. The Lake Lock Rail Road is recognized as the world's first public railway.
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22 hours ago · Porfirio Díaz. Military officer, politician. José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori GCB (15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915), known as Porfirio Díaz (English: / ˈdiːəs / DEE-əss[4] or / ˈdiːæz / DEE-az, Spanish: [poɾˈfiɾjo ˈði.as]), was a Mexican general, politician, and dictator who served on three separate occasions as President of ...
Nov 1, 2024 · The Underground Railroad, often remembered as being characterized by tunnels, dark of night escapes, coded language, and hidey-holes, was far more extensive and complex than these ideas have led ...
22 hours ago · The underground leader of the East Saxony branch of the KPD was arrested by police and died during torture at the police station. He was the older brother of resistance fighter Hermann Axen. 1933-11-11 Konrad Flensburg: Gau Schleswig-Holstein: A worker handing out political flyers was shot while fleeing.
22 hours ago · The 2015 documentary The Babushkas Of Chernobyl directed by Anne Bogart and Holly Morris [128] focuses on elderly residents who remain in the Exclusion Zone. These people, a majority of whom are women, are self-sufficient farmers who receive routine visits from officials to check on their health and radiation levels.
22 hours ago · Boston, Glasgow, New York, Toronto) verwendet, Underground sowie Tube werden als Eigennamen ausschließlich für das Londoner System genutzt. Weiterhin ist in den Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada vielfach verbreitet, im Zusammenhang mit einem bestimmten System den jeweiligen Betreibernamen totum pro parte für die U-Bahn sowie auch insgesamt als Synonym für den lokalen ÖPNV zu verwenden.
22 hours ago · Website. nashville.gov. Nashville, often known as Music City, [9] is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. Located in Middle Tennessee, it had a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census. [d] Nashville is the 21st most populous city in the United States, and the fourth most ...
