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....
His name was Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (1915–1990), a famous American computer scientist, one of the most important figures in computing history. He was one of the first to foresee modern-style interactive computing and remains an Internet pioneer...
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...
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....
Classified crossings (Fr. passages pour piétons): - zebra crossing : passage piétons traditionnel, la chaussée est zébrée de bandes de peinture blanche (ou jaune); parfois encore appelé "passage clouté" en français; - pelican crossing : passage décalé,...
That's the name (some would call it an insult) the famous Hollywood film star Sean PENN has been called recently. Remember he was to have an interview with "El Chapo", but the police who made the most of this information managed to track down the Mexican...
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...
- IMPORTANT DATES : 1911: blind for almost three years years ; close to the Bloomsbury Circle from 1914 to 1920. Then became closer to D. H. Lawrence. Moved to (and worked for) Hollywood from 1937, settled in Taos (New Mexico, 1938) and became a Vedantist....
About 700,000 Cajuns live in South Louisiana, originally from Acadia (a French Canadian province). The word originates in the attempted pronunciation of "Acadian" by U.S. speakers. In 1604 -- sixteen years before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock...
FROM MANDELA TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC - A short biography of Nelson Mandela - Date of Birth: July 18, 1918 Place of Birth: Eastern Cape of South Africa Parents: Father: - Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa. Mother: Nosekeni Fanny. 1918 July 18: Rolihlahla...
You may not have recognized Spiderman in this photograph, but I doubt it. If such be the case, you wouldn't be totally wrong, as the model for this photo is a real life hero, a Mexican immigrant who risks his life everyday so as to earn enough money to...
Answers from http://www.imdb.com/search/name?birth_place=Bromley%2C+Kent%2C+England%2C+UK& and http://www.bromley.towntalk.co.uk/local/famous-people/d/422/malcolm-campbell/ The most famous show-business people born in Bromley: - Jerome Flynn (Bronn dans...
Who was Mrs Barbara CASTLE ? Source : http://spartacus-educational.com/PRcastleB.htm - Barbara Betts, the daughter of a tax inspector, was born in Bradford in 1910. Her father was a member of the Independent Labour Party and she was converted to socialism...
This slideshow of Vincent Van Gogh's work is set to the song "Vincent" by Don McLean, as part of an art and creative writing lesson plan for the patients at Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield. Compiled by artist Anthony DiFatta, who also suffers...
Scotland and France’s Auld Alliance (1295) was a military and diplomatic alliance drawn up by John Balliol of Scotland and Philip IV of France, which benefited most ordinary Scots, who got jobs as mercenaries in France’s armies and a steady supply of...
Be careful ! The meaning of “public schools” in the US is different from the UK. Public School in America refers to schools run by a governmental authority. They can be state-run or funded by local school districts. Schools are usually financed by taxpayers,...
The Guardian published on Dec. 6 (2017) an outstanding article on Johnny Hallyday‘s death ; it opens like this : « France has lost its cultural nuclear deterrent, its favourite granddad, its permanent teenager, one of its greatest national treasures and...
There used to be a habit of getting as close as possible to the King's English, nowadays it seems the Queen's English is full of surprises, as illustrated by a recent article in The Sun. Alison Maloney sure has a knack for writing fun ! Her article is...
What equivalents do English speakers find for the French idioms ? °l'appétit vient en mangeant : (the) appetite comes with (the) eating. °C'est l'hôpital qui se moque de la charité : it's like the pot calling the kettle black . °On voit la paille dans...
... = F + MP3 + TAB + URL + USB + 404 F is for function (F1 key, F 11 key etc. on your computer keyboard) MP3 is for Motion Picture [experts group 1 Audio-layer] 3, a system enabling (audio-)files to be compressed to 10% of their original size. TAB was...
A famous American Hispanic : Carlos Santana [Devadip] Carlos Santana was born on July 20, 1947 in Mexico. He became world-famous when he performed in Woodstock in 1969. He grew up in a typical Mexican family (his parents had six children). They settled...
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about 1960s British youth subcultures.) The Mods and Rockers were two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early-mid 1960s. Gangs of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a "moral panic"...
France has just won the 2017 Davis Cup. But who knows of the man the Cup was named after ? Dwight Filley Davis (St. Louis, 1879 –Washington D.C., 1945) an American tennis player and politician was also the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis...
Do you happen to know of Ben Hatch ? If not, I strongly advise you to read Road to Rouen, a hilarious (not only that, of course) travel book telling of France and the French. I have selected the following passage about les Machines de l'Ile: "In Nantes...
Beware ! The following words are used in French too, but with a different, sometimes very different, meaning: - A drawing-room is not "une salle de dessin". It is a room where gentlemen withdraw (se retirent) to smoke without disturbing the ladies. It's...
