"As Gore Vidal quipped in Fellini Roma, some cities are better than others to watch the end of the world from. Or the beginning of a new world... Now 50, a movie event that used to be leftishly sectarian is becoming startlingly evenhanded with age and national unification."...
American Railroads In the United States, railroads spearheaded the second phase of the transportation revolution by overtaking the previous importance of canals. The mid-1800s saw a great expansion of American railroads. The major cities east of the Mississippi River were linked by a spiderweb of r...
The rivalries among developers, contractors, and cities that characterized the building of nineteenth century canals and railroads reappear in the politics of interstate highways, airplanes, and telecommunications. The specialized city districts that first took shape in the nineteenth century now have been...
Today, some are the sites of large cities such as of Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; St. Louis, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Pocatello, Idaho, and countless others. There are approximately 296 spoken (or formerly spoken) indigenous languages north of Mexico. ...
Back to Civilizations (Civ6) The American people represent a civilization in Civilization VI. They are led by Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt, under whom their default colors are dark blue and white; Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt, under whom their default color
事实上，铁路网非常密，以至于在19世纪60年代，美国拥有比世界上其他地区更多的铁路。
encourage：鼓励；促进；controlled：控制；promised：允许；predicted：预测。因此选项A符合题干意思。
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costs falling, larger and larger factories could be built, allowing greater and greater potential profits. The ease and relative affordability of transportation meant that industrial production now could be moved away from the sources of raw materials, As a result, cities grew at an accelerated ...
describes approximately a hundred projects that have been designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks - canals, roads, railroads, bridges, tunnels, water supply and control syste...