The words uttered by the assassin Jacob Smith before deciding to kill UK Prime Minister Byron Loews-Burnett at the extraordinary UN Security Council session to avoid escalation of the Indo-Chinese border conflict into a full blown World War. The constant ramping up of tensions and responses had...
Last words of Lt. Henry K. Hollingsworth, who was awarded two Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts, and a Medal of Honor for various action in the first and second Gulf Wars, before falling into the service pit at a local Jiffy Lube.
Specifically, the end of Act III. For those not entirely familiar with the original play by the (otherwise unknown) Austrian playwright Lorenz Blaes-Bylandt (1899-1944)*, this dialogue was unfortunately left out of the operatic adaptation written by Giacomo Andretti, Due Grandi Imperatori. The...
I have had, for many years, a personal idea/project (that I have mentioned several times in the past) based on the Transportation Act of 1920-specifically the consolidation of American railroads into a smaller number of larger systems. I have long since established what I want them to look like...
Public money to fund private rail service? For HSR? In the USA ? Between 1945 and 2000? I'm afraid that this is DOA. OTL Amtrak is as good as it was going to get (though there are a few missed opportunities there, too). Firstly, until, say, 1960-ish, the two groups that would have opposed it...
From an interview with Bringham Young IV, reminiscing about the Second Great Trek of the Church of Latter-Day Saints from Utah, after the US-Soviet nuclear exchange of 1985. The launches occurred when President Reagan made a sound check by counting down from ten to one, while (coincidentally) an...
University of Wisconsin School of Transportation Economics
Transportation Economics 250
Professor L. Beebe
Course Title: The Consolidation of American Railroads (3 credits)
Prerequisite: American Railroad Development, 1828-1914
This course will cover the development of the "Public Plan" that...
From The Five Rivers of Civilization, by the French statesman and savant Pierre Langdouc Francois Fermat-Atringue (1829-1904). His extensive travels throughout the French Union were chronicled in this (oddly numbered) seven volume set. Besides the standard European travelogue, he posited the...
From what little I recall of CNoR/GT/GTP history, was there any way to reorganize the companies through regular (though obviously very large) bankruptcy proceedings? Iirc, the CNoR was pretty much all bonded with provincial guarantees, while the GTP was guaranteed by the GT. Perhaps some form of...
At the risk of turning this into an "Unbuilt Prince Rupert" thread...Had the GTP remained under separate operation/control (in public or private hands) than the CNoR, how large would PR have realistically grown by, say, 1940? 1960? My impression is that the GTP was a long, empty line from...
Verses 9-14 of the 3rd chapter of the Book of Armachiand, telling the story of the origin of the world, from the Tzu'ligur civilization, which flourished along the upper Indus valley c. 2400-1900 BC. Although fragmentary, it seems to posses many parallels with the Judeo-Christian story of the...