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20 hours ago · For passenger rail service, Memphis and Newbern are served by the Amtrak City of New Orleans line on its run between Chicago and New Orleans. [387] Nashville is served by the WeGo Star commuter rail service. [388] Tennessee currently has 2,604 miles (4,191 km) of freight trackage in operation, [389] most of which are owned by CSX Transportation ...
20 hours ago · The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
20 hours ago · Los Angeles surpassed Chicago to become the nation's second largest city between 1980 and 1982, with a population estimated to be 3.022 million in 1982. [ 161 ] The population of Los Angeles in 2020 was 3,898,747.
20 hours ago · The base of the CSA monument moved from Rockville, MD, to White's Ferry, MD. The original monument, a bronze life-sized Confederate soldier on this pedestal, was originally donated by the UDC and the United Confederate Veterans, and built by the Washington firm of Falvey Granite Company at a cost of US$3,600 (equivalent to $110,982 in 2023).
20 hours ago · Als Donald Trump 1946 geboren wurde, befand sich der Wohnungsbau, in dem sein Vater Fred als Unternehmer tätig war, in einer schweren Krise. Zwar herrschte nach der Heimkehr von über sechs Millionen Soldaten aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg eine immense Nachfrage nach Wohnraum, aber wegen des großen Bedarfs an Baumaterialien waren diese für preiswerte Wohnprojekte, auf die sich Fred Trump ...
