BBC-News page last updated at 22:11 GMT, Thursday, 25 December 2008 Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had cancer, died on Christmas Eve aged 78. He wrote more than 30 plays including The Caretaker and The Birthday Party. His film scripts...
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Needing rapid communication, the companies built telegraph lines along the railroad. The linkage made these lines easier to protect and maintain than the original First Transcontinental Telegraph lines. In addition to track laying (which typically employed...
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The First Transcontinental Railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected Iowa with the Pacific Ocean at Alameda, California, opposite San Francisco....
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At the time Chicago's Sears tower was constructed in 1974, it was the world's tallest building, a title it lost when the Petronas twin towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were constructed (1997). [Note: The height of the antennas on the Petronas towers...
Read moreA selection of cartoons about January 7 th 's tragedy at Charlie's seen in the Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11331506/Cartoonists-show-solidarity-after-Charlie-Hebdo-attack.html?frame=3158451
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Jan 7, 2014 : Grieving with Charlie Hebdo This is a store on rue Daguerre in south Paris . The signs bear the names of the victims and "en deuil avec Charlie Hebdo" (grieving with Charlie Hebdo). Sent via Guardian Witness Source : http://www.theguard...
Read more(peace process in -. #1) 0. So many nations have had (still have) conflicting interests, sometimes driving them to awful wars and millions of useless deaths. However former enemies often become friends (Romans and Gauls, Britons and U.S. Americans, the...
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(Saint Martin in the Fields) William Logsdail ( British artist, born 1859 - died 1944) Born in Lincoln, England, in 1859, William Logsdail was a successful genre painter of seascapes and town views. He was taught by Taylor at the Lincoln Academy and continued...
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The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and also the Flivver) was an automobile produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile came into popular usage. It...
Read more(Where are the - ?) What is the origin of the "Home counties"? First, what are counties? -- This word refers to an administrative area comparable with the French département. And the group of counties that surround London are called " the Home Counties",...
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