Michigan Southern hoped to proceed to Chicago but needed to build through Indiana to do so and thus the Northern Indiana Railroad was formed to continue the work. The two companies immediately consolidated to form the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railway (MS&NI) and construction commenced...
out of place within the smooth contours of south-east England. Perhaps come back via Rusthall Common, and its Toad Rock. A bit further away, at Groombridge are Harrison’s Rocks, perhaps the most striking of all and easily reached from Tunbridge Wells by taking the Spa Valley railway. ...
Rhodes served as prime minister of the Cape from 1890 to 1896. He made his fortune in the Kimberley diamond rush, but his greatest dream was to forge a Cape–Cairo railway, a tangible symbol of British dominion in Africa. The classical-style granite memorial sits high on the slopes of Dev...
Against the backdrop of a steep rise in liberation movements backed by Eastern Bloc communist countries such as Cuba and the Soviet Union, southern Africa saw one of the most intense wars ever fought on the continent. Subjected to international sanctions due to its policies of racial segregation...
So lets have a look at the really ‘silent’ history of South African’s in the ‘silent service’ of submarines – and we start with World War 1. Notable South Africans in submarine service – WW1 The First World War properly developed the submarine as a tool of war, it can even be...
Mar Ecol Prog Ser 267: 173 – 185 ® Evans RD, Russ GR, Kritzer JP (2008) Batch fecundity of Lut- janus carponotatus (Lutjanidae) and implications of no- take marine reserves on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs 27:179–189 ® Gaines S, Brown S, Roughgarden J (...
He had been a stonemason in Cornwall, so perhaps he had a hand in building this fortified cottage too. Railway workers’ cottage near Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape Interestingly enough some of William Matthew Growdon’s descendants are still living in the vicinity of Stutterheim, and if you...
an approach which has been used ever since considering that dog and jackal rabies remains a problem in the area to this day. The virus spread to Mozambique by 1952 and from there to Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape . Sporadic cases of rabies were seen in South African Bat-ear...
Moderately, the inland areas are potentially noted such as the Eastern Highveld Plateau, the Drakensberg foothills in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape. So far, the implementation of about 3.366 GW of wind power is underway, with an envisioned addition of 5.034 GW capacity to be included by 2030 ...