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3 days ago · The first railway in the German colony of South West Africa was the 18 kilometres (11 mi)-long line running North-East from Walvis Bay to connect with the existing road between Swakopmund and Windhoek.
2 days ago · Historian Larry Gara argues that many of the stories of the Underground Railroad belong in folklore and not history. The actions of real historical figures such as Harriet Tubman, Thomas Garrett, and Levi Coffin are exaggerated, and Northern abolitionists who guided the enslaved to Canada are hailed as the heroes of the Underground Railroad ...
5 days ago · In 1936, however, the first Trunk Roads Act made the Minister of Transport responsible for four of the main roads passing through Wiltshire: these were the London to Bath road, the Bath to Southampton road, the London to Exeter road, and the Hereford to Hungerford road.
3 days ago · 100 years of motorways: Simon Calder’s complete history, from the first car to the best UK service station. All you need to know about the long and not-very-winding motorway
4 days ago · By 1775 there was a nucleus of houses at the junction of the roads and for a short distance along these three roads and along the road to Longton Hall which joined the Stone road just south of the centre of the village. There were in addition a number of scattered houses and numerous coal pits between the Uttoxeter road (then called Meer Lane ...
2 days ago · Despite the discovery of a section of Roman road, unaligned, at the junction of Green Street (renamed Roman Road) and Cambridge Road in 1938, the most likely route to Old Street is that of Hackney Road, the parish boundary and therefore probably ancient.
3 days ago · The Long and Winding Road One scientist’s path from rural India to America’s heartland As a young boy studying by the light of a kerosene lamp in his family’s mud-and-straw home, Jasimuddin Ahamed imagined he might become a poet.
