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The Great Society Subway by Zachary M. Schrag
azw3, epub |eng | 2008-04-02 | Author:Zachary M. Schrag

* * * 8 The District * * * From the first discussions of bringing rapid transit to Washington, advocates of rail knew that they would have to make the ...
( Category: Americas January 26,2019 )
Relics of the Franklin Expedition: Discovering Artifacts from the Doomed Arctic Voyage of 1845 by Garth Walpole & Russell Potter
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Garth Walpole & Russell Potter

Figure 19: Irving’s grave as depicted in “Overland to Starvation Cove” (Barr 1987: 83) (author’s collection). Schwatka stated the skull was found outside the grave’s broken walls but appeared to ...
( Category: World January 23,2019 )
Air War Northern Ireland by Steven Taylor
epub |eng | 2018-09-18 | Author:Steven Taylor

Sale of the century An opportunity to obtain a Stinger appeared to present itself in 1989 when Kevin McKinley, a PIRA suspect from Belfast who was based in Florida, was ...
( Category: Transportation January 22,2019 )
Wright Brothers, Wrong Story by William Hazelgrove
epub |eng | | Author:William Hazelgrove

We left Kitty Hawk at daybreak on last Tuesday and reached home at 3 PM on Friday after a very exciting but tiresome trip…. Into the last ten days of ...
( Category: Transportation January 18,2019 )
The Essentials of Living Aboard a Boat by Mark Nicholas
epub |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Mark Nicholas [Nicholas, Mark]

Children Liveaboard children, adopting their family’s lifestyle and limitations, are impressive. Kids adapt very quickly, and to me, this has always been a beautiful thing. Children require certain things: a ...
( Category: Water Sports January 17,2019 )
Fly by Wire by William Langewiesche
epub |eng | 2010-01-23 | Author:William Langewiesche

• Ziegler has written a book titled Les Cow-boys d’Airbus, about himself and his friends. Recently I went to see him in Toulouse. He is deep into his seventies now, ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science January 3,2019 )
Until the Sea Shall Free Them by Robert Frump
epub |eng | 2018-10-31 | Author:Robert Frump

( Category: Transportation December 12,2018 )
Convair by Martyn Chorlton
epub |eng | 2018-07-16 | Author:Martyn Chorlton [Chorlton, Martyn]

The majestic sight of the world’s largest piston-engined, land-based transport aircraft, which first flew on 24 November 1957. (USAF/Richard Ward Collection) The sole XC-99, 45-52436, dwarfs the second production Convair ...
( Category: Transportation December 12,2018 )
Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles by Charles P. Hobbs
epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Charles P. Hobbs

HELICOPTERS TO THE RESCUE Sikorsky and others had developed early forms of the helicopter, which had seen limited use toward the end of World War II. Originally, Belinn was skeptical ...
( Category: Transportation December 12,2018 )
Railroads of Southwest Florida by Gregg M. Turner
epub |eng | 2011-10-14 | Author:Gregg M. Turner

This bevy of steam power belonged not to the Atlantic Coast Line, but to United States Sugar! Operating an internal railroad system proved far more cost efficient. (Railroad Museum of ...
( Category: Americas December 12,2018 )
Race to Hawaii by Jason Ryan
epub |eng | 2018-12-10 | Author:Jason Ryan

The first pilots to fly to Hawaii were celebrated with a parade upon their return to San Francisco on July 12, 1927. US Army Air Corps lieutenants Lester J. Maitland ...
( Category: Transportation December 11,2018 )
Paris to the Past by Ina Caro
epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:Ina Caro

CHAPTER 14 HENRY IV in PARIS Line 1 and Line 7 Métro THERE IS SOMETHING SO EXCITING ABOUT PARIS ONCE HENRY IV arrives. Almost immediately, he began to bring peace ...
( Category: Europe December 11,2018 )
Warship 2015 by Jordan John
epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Jordan, John

In fact, steering by the engines became the normal mode of operation for the ships, although this entailed a loss of speed. Armament Novgorod’s armament consisted of two 11in/20 Krupp-pattern ...
( Category: Military December 11,2018 )
Grand Rapids, Grand Haven, and Muskegon Railway by David Kindem
epub |eng | 2015-12-10 | Author:David Kindem

This photograph shows the 1904 freight house at Goodrich and Oakes Streets. The new brick structure had 2,400 feet of floor space, more than three times that of the previous ...
( Category: Transportation December 11,2018 )
Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence by Patrick T. Conley William Jennings Jr
epub |eng | 2018-07-22 | Author:Patrick T. Conley, William Jennings Jr.

( Category: Social Sciences December 11,2018 )

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