The unity of the United States was effected under the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, who introduced the transcontinental railway system. |
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Canadian Northern, Canada's third transcontinental railway, was also expanding. |
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An amazing amount of the global food supply is transcontinental and produced by energy-intensive large-scale agriculture. |
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That's fine for data, where a few milliseconds of lag time on a transcontinental journey is no big deal. |
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The Tin Can Tourists were RVers who braved dust and mud to drive their Tin Lizzies across the U.S. before transcontinental roads were paved. |
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The track later known as the Oodnadatta Track became the main overland route for drovers and later the transcontinental railway to Darwin. |
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Once we get some people yelping it on transcontinental and international flights, it'll become part of the national zeitgeist toot sweet. |
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Later the Chinese made the westward journey of Mormon converts infinitely more convenient by building the transcontinental railway. |
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Although the llama was used as a pack animal in South America, it could not compare with the horses and camels which made transcontinental links possible in Eurasia. |
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The latest low-fare carrier to add coast-to-coast service is America West, which began its fourth transcontinental route Monday with Boston-San Francisco flights. |
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What could torpedo these plans is if tourists as a whole cancel their winter holidays out of safety concerns or if the airlines cut capacity on transcontinental routes. |
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Provided financial backing for the Canadian Pacific Railway, the country's first transcontinental railway. |
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In 1937, he had spearheaded the organization of operating and ground services for Canada's first transcontinental air system. |
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Canada would have not two, but three transcontinental railways, to cross its great expanse from sea to sea. |
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The river was the key segment of the transcontinental fur trade route which opened up Western Canada. |
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It's somewhat analogous to the moving company that has a transcontinental business. |
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However, these changes were not implemented on all the equipment used in transcontinental trains. |
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The complainant, Gino Dumont, worked for the respondent as a transcontinental semi-trailer truck operator. |
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Treaty 7 opened the way for a transcontinental railway, linking Canada from sea to sea. |
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Canada's first telegraph company appeared in 1846, but the completion of the transcontinental railway in 1885 pushed the lines coast to coast. |
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The Pushtun-nationalist Taliban have little interest in IS's dream of a transcontinental caliphate. |
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In 1914 even the companies that owned the two transcontinental railways were in difficulty. |
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Notably, in 1869, the eastbound Central Pacific and westbound Union Pacific railroads met at Promontory, Utah, completing the nation's first transcontinental railway. |
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In fact the majority of UK funds raised between Confederation and the First World War were used to finance the construction of Canada's two transcontinental railways. |
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The approach, however, and eventual arrival of the transcontinental railway in 1869, quickly brought significant and interrelated changes to Utah. |
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Asians have been intertwined with America's destiny since Chinese immigrants arrived en masse to build the transcontinental railway after the civil war. |
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The defence of a new Russian single-track transcontinental railway to Vladivostok was both a cause for sabre-rattling and, ultimately, a major factor in defeat. |
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In this time of tribulation for these two gorgeous, devastated stars, I would like to offer my services, not as transcontinental gossip provider, but as celebrity matchmaker! |
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I consulted with my good friend Jim, an avid cyclist who has several transcontinental bike runs as well a small pile of really neat X-rays to prove it. |
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This literature is not only transcontinental but it is omnivorous. |
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Hannah Hart recently finished a transcontinental tour that linked with other emerging web video artists. |
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Then there was that amazing by-product of the Civil War, the transcontinental Railroad. |
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The most remarkable fact about the transcontinental Railroad was how well Americans understood its purpose, and its benefits. |
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The explorer Alexander MacKenzie completed the first known transcontinental crossing of America north of Mexico. |
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This makes Egypt a transcontinental country, with the Sinai peninsula in Asia and the remainder of the country in Africa. |
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The Board ruled that TCA could deliver mail between Vancouver and Victoria and also that it could provide air passenger service, but only as a continuation of its transcontinental route. |
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Ontario is crossed by two transcontinental railway lines and is bisected by one provincially owned north-south railroad with its northern terminus at Moosonee on James Bay. |
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The TCA episode had nothing to do with the Conservative government's later announcement that it would allow competition on the transcontinental air route. |
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The same can-do spirit that built the transcontinental railroad and designed the computer chip managed to slap together a barter system that remains the envy of the organized world! |
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Although there was some discontentment with TCA's monopoly on transcontinental routes, the daily Canadian Pacific flights put a dent in the publicly owned airlines' budget. |
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And, as it happened, the promoters of the CNR expansion managed to beg and borrow enough financial backing to build their own transcontinental route that would link with the Intercolonial line. |
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Trans-Canada Airlines was the country's first publicly owned airline, with a monopoly over international and transcontinental routes, and over airmail service. |
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A port of entry and an important foreign-trade and transcontinental crossroad on several major highways, it is served by both U. S. and Mexican railroads. |
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Like some transcontinental Kerouac, Montreal's Ray Bonneville infuses his countrified blues-rock with the echo of the thousand North American highways and byways he's traveled. |
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I planned an ambitious transcontinental route that would begin by following Humboldt and Bolívar through the northern and central Andes and end up with Darwin at South America's southernmost tip. |
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Time-starved Americans rarely devote so many hours to anything other than, perhaps, a transcontinental flight and sleep. Golf is a hard sport to master. |
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In the case of flight connections, hub airports use this type of aircraft to move passengers who have flown in from spokes to more remote, usually transcontinental, destinations. |
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According to a number of studies, Euro-Asian land transport links have the potential to compete effectively with maritime transport for many categories of transcontinental and intercontinental shipments. |
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I want to point out quickly that the policies we have deal with these great transcontinental hotels on wheels, which are not being made any more, and they're quite different. |
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Thus by the end of the 16th century Russia was transformed into a multiethnic, multiconfessional and transcontinental state. |
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In January 1915, Bell made the first ceremonial transcontinental telephone call. |
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The Western Terminus of the historic transcontinental Lincoln Highway, the first road across America, is in San Francisco's Lincoln Park. |
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These actions were used to affirm Portugal's status as a transcontinental nation and not as a colonial empire. |
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The major rivers on the east coast were also explored in case they could lead to a transcontinental passage. |
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In the later days of the regulations one of the transcontinental airlines actually had a piano bar on its flights. |
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Thus, by the end of the 16th century Russia was transformed into a multiethnic, multidenominational and transcontinental state. |
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The Ottoman sultans also claimed the title of Caliph starting with Murad I, who transformed the Ottoman state into a transcontinental empire. |
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As a transcontinental employer, the company was an early pioneer of outward foreign direct investment at the dawn of modern capitalism. |
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However, this reason has become less important with the advent of rapid transcontinental travel. |
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About 130 locals work for CP which maintains a railyard as a divisional and crew change point on the transcontinental line. |
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After the American Civil War, new transcontinental railways made relocation easier for settlers, expanded internal trade and increased conflicts with Native Americans. |
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During the latter half of the 20th century, several transcontinental interstate highways crossed the West bringing more trade and tourists from the East. |
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The multimodal, transcontinental megacarriers of the future will probably coalesce around the capital assets represented by today's major railroad rights-of-way. |
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The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative Eurasian silk and horse trade, a major reason for the connection of trade routes into an extensive transcontinental network. |
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After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with the conquest of the Balkans the Ottoman Beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. |
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The transcontinental railroads in North America, as well as the Panama Canal that opened in 1914 in Central America, led to the gradual decrease in use of the Horn for trade. |
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National infrastructure including telegraph and transcontinental railroads spurred economic growth and greater settlement and development of the American Old West. |
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