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Our town has many maple trees3.I love them because of their color, ranging from yellow to orange, to pink to red.The maple tree in our back yard is turning yellow, but the maples a few blocks4away are orange.It depends on the species5as well as the weather.According to the weather ...
“I had a desire to compile a volume of never previously reprinted stories which becameGlimpses of the Unknownand during that discussion, or in emails afterwards, Jonny asked whether I could also compile a volume of nautical horror stories, which becameFrom the Depths, and railway horror stories...
During the whole journey he had been in a sort of benumbed condition, which had not, however, prevented him from taking all the necessary steps, changing at Nizhni-Novgorod from the railway to the steamer, getting his meals at the stations etc., etc. He was convinced as before that _...
1849 – the railway was built as far as Peekskill; the Croton station was on River Street (later Riverside Avenue). A result was a much more rapid population growth in the area with a town growing around the railway and station.
If you have ever been in the Music Room at Central Library or climbed the stairs up to the Art and Design Library, you may have noticed the posters on display. These are part of a collection of 20th-century railway posters gifted to the library, all advertising the wonders of Edinburgh....
Lena Williams was the second fatality resulting from the crash of Toronto Railway Company (TRC) streetcar number 1502 on December 24, 1911. The accident darkened the holiday season a century ago as columns of newsprint provided grim details from eyewitnesses and survivors.William Moore, who had be...
Republic of Poland. It would take four more years and six wars—-large and small-—to confirm the country’s borders and Skoczów was to be at the center of the skirmish concerning one of them. Because of its well developed industries, productive coal mines, and key railway hubs, the pa...
Clinging fast to the banisters, she resisted with all her might; she kicked and screamed, and screamed and kicked; but at last her feet were taken prisoners; then grasping the railway with one hand, with the other she brandished high the little whip. “What!” said the mild nun, “...
requirements, researchers (including the authors) had suggested that in order to practise and finance partial conservation, concentrated and intensive redevelopment should be allowed on the southern part and western edge of the community, to fully capitalize on the completion of a new nearby railway ...