known as the “Father of the Gravity Ride” for his Switchback Railway at Coney Island‚ New York City and became famous for the Scenic Railway on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City‚ New Jersey in 1887. Thompson was born on March 8‚ 1848 in Jersey‚ Ohio. At the age of 12‚ he built a butter churn and an oxcart‚ and was a master carpenter by the age of 17. In 1866‚ Thompson graduated from Hillsdale College in Michigan. He worked in a wagon and carriage business then made a mint for the manufacture of seamless
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Transportation in New Zealand 1. Car Rental Self-drive is a great way to explore New Zealand. You’ll have the flexibility to evolve your itinerary as you go along‚ and the freedom to explore places that are away from the usual tourist trails. Our roads are generally of a very high standard. All main routes are sealed and well signposted; beyond the cities‚ traffic is light. Car rental companies come in all shapes and sizes. You’ll find all the big names‚ as well as a wide range of local operators
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roll in Georgia history Railroads and their roll in Georgia history "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another‚ almost as fast as birds can fly‚ 15 or 20 miles an hour.... A carriage will start from Washington in the morning‚ the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore‚ dine at Philadelphia‚ and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour‚ and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the
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would have to be willing to do any thing the boss wanted. I believe my friends and I would most likely resent and despise it if we had to live in the 1900’s. During the 1900’s horses played a significant role in the everyday life. A horse drawn carriage would bring a docter to the house of where a baby would be born. A hearse was pulled by horses to the cemetery when somebody died. Farmers used them to pull their ploughs while town dwellers kept them for transportation around town. Horses puled
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July 31‚ 1998 Japanese railway workers check an overpass‚ keeping it safe for the "bullet train" below. (Kyodo) Leaving over 100 people dead‚ the June 3‚ 1998‚ derailing of a German Intercity Express (ICE) high-speed passenger train gave quite a shock to railway authorities in Japan. Particularly shaken were Japan Railway (JR) companies‚ which operate their Shinkansen super-express trains (often called "bullet trains") at speeds of 200 to 300 kilometers (125 to 185 miles) per hour‚ on schedules
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themselves this was a way of life and no one was going to get in the way of their dreams and ambitions. Hippies flocked to a certain area of San Francisco on the corner of Haight Street and Ashbury Street‚ where the world got their first view of this unique group. This place came to be known as the Haight Ashbury District. There were tours of the district and it was said that the tour was the only foreign tour within the continental limits of the United States (Labin
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------------------------------------------------- Khudiram Bose From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.(January 2010) | | Khudiram Bose | Born | December 3‚ 1889 Habibpur‚ Midnapur | Died | 11 August 1908 (aged 18) | Nationality | Indian | Known for | Indian freedom fighter | Khudiram Bose (Bengali: ক্ষুদিরাম
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transport & technology were very limited. There were around five categories of transport available: “Trams‚ bicycles‚ animal power‚ rail transport and sea transport”. Trams were a cheaper and much comfortable alternative to animal drawn carts/carriages. They were only in their early stages of development at the turn of the century and as such‚ weren’t yet electric and were instead pulled by a cable or even by horses. Bicycles‚ on the other hand‚ advanced faster than trams and already had proper
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Explore the ways in which Hill creates sympathy for Arthur as the hero of the Woman in Black Key to the success of TWiB is Hill’s expertise in encouraging the reader to identify with the main character‚ Arthur Kipps. She achieves this by stimulating feelings of sympathy towards Arthur. Some of the ways in which she does this are by using a variety of different methods such as a range of structural devices‚ detailed descriptions of the setting‚ the central theme of fear and the change in Arthur’s
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on American society‚ why did they emerge and what were their objectives? One of the most distinctive countercultures of the very colorful decade of the 1960s were the hippies. The hippie’s counterculture developed during the 1960s in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. The hippies adopted the language and counterculture values from the Beats Generation. Their distinct style (bell bottom pants‚ brightly colored shirts and long loose hair on both men and women)‚ their addictive use of LSD
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