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In the movie Gremlins 2, Billy Peltzer (played by Zach Galligan) and Daniel Clamp (played by John Glover), use one of these columns as an escape route from the Gremlin infested Clamp Building.

Aero Portuguesa

The AP route from Lisbon to Casablanca became world famous for the movie Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

Aqaba Railway Corporation

In 1979 the Aqaba Railway Corporation (ARC) was incorporated and took over the route from Abiad to Aqaba.

Arizona State Route 564

State Route 564, also known as SR 564, is a state highway in northern Arizona serving Navajo National Monument.

Betley Bridge

During the Second World War the Steyning Line was an important route to move sugar beet from Sussex farms from Henfield station towards the capital, and Betley Bridge was a strategic target for German bombers.

Commercial Cable Company

Connections from Waterville to Weston-super-Mare in England and Le Havre in France were soon established by the submarine route after initial use of landlines from Waterville onward to mainland Britain.

Connecticut Route 198

Route 198 was commissioned in 1932, running along the current route of Route 171 from former Route 15 (now I-84) in Union to former Route 91 (now Route 171) in Woodstock.

Darch, Western Australia

The 352 route, which enters the suburb and serves the central section, links to Whitfords railway station; the 450, running along Kingsway, links to Warwick railway station, whilst the 372 route, which terminates on Landsdale Road in the suburb's southwestern corner, links to Mirrabooka bus station.

Dewoitine D.332

The three D.333s were used on the Toulouse-Dakar sector of the Air France South American route for several years.Two of these planes were transferred to the Argentine Air Force after WWII and usde along with two 338s.

Eremitage Maria Reizenborn

The Hermitage is located on a pilgrimage route of Simmern nearby Spabrücken, which crosses the Soonwald back.

Gap year

In 1978, the Prince of Wales and Colonel John Blashford-Snell began what is now known as Raleigh International by launching Operation Drake, an expedition voyage around the world following Sir Francis Drake's route.

Georgia State Route 7 Connector

Georgia State Route 7 Connector (Lowndes County): A former connector route of Georgia State Route 7 that existed in rural parts of Lowndes County, northwest of Valdosta.

Guangzhouwan

During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, Kwangchowan was often used as a stopover on an escape route for civilians fleeing Hong Kong and trying to make their way to Free China; Patrick Yu, a prominent trial lawyer, recalled in his memoirs how a Japanese civilian in Hong Kong helped him to escape in this way.

Hartford and New Haven Railroad

In addition to the New Haven-Springfield route it also served Berlin, New Britain, and Middletown, Connecticut.

Hillside Beach, Manitoba

During the fur trading expeditions of the Voyageurs and Coureur des bois the lagoon was part of a portage for traveling between the Winnipeg River and Lake Winnipeg en route from French eastern Canada to the Red River Valley, avoiding the long often choppy route around Elk Island.

Hobart International Airport

The major domestic airlines that serve the airport are Qantas, Jetstar Airways, Virgin Australia and Tiger Airways Australia, which are all running flights on the main route to Melbourne Airport.

Human trafficking in Benin

Gendarmes in the village of Porga arrested suspected traffickers trying to cross the Benin-Burkina Faso border en route to Ivory Coast with five children in April 2009, and delivered them to the court at Natitingou.

Hurum Line

Alternatively, and ultimately selected, was construction of a tunnel eastwards from Oslo to Lillestrøm and an upgrade of the Trunk Line and a new route from a point at Asper to the airport.

John Wallace Pringle

The survey's findings confirmed that the caravan route to the Great Rift Valley was the best path for the line, followed by the easiest gradient to be found over the Mau Escarpment and down to Lake Victoria.

Kennington Road

With the growing popularity of Brighton as a resort in the later eighteenth century it became part of the route there, used by George IV on his excursions there and later for other London to Brighton events such as the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.

Kentucky Route 15

It is a major route, connecting the coalfields of the Cumberland Plateau with Lexington and other cities in the Bluegrass region.

Lake Washington Floating Bridge

Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, opened in 1940 to carry U.S. Route 10 and now carries Interstate 90

LGV Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Three principal route options were considered, mainly concerning the alignment between Avignon, Aix-en-Provence, Toulon and Draguignan.

Llanymynech

The CR mainline from Whitchurch to Welshpool (Buttington Junction), via Ellesmere, Whittington, Oswestry and Llanymynech, closed on 18 January 1965 in favour of the more viable Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway route.

Massachusetts Route 116

It then becomes one route again, crossing a canal before crossing the Vietnam Memorial Bridge into South Hadley and Hampshire County.

Matt Light

In his senior season, 2000, Light earned first-team All-Big Ten recognition after starting 12 games at left tackle, helping an offensive line that gave up only seven sacks en route to a Big Ten title and Rose Bowl Game appearance.

Melton, Victoria

Some VLocity Ballarat services, Ararat services, Maryborough services as well as most N class and P class Bacchus Marsh services stop at Melton en route to and from Southern Cross Station.

Mihr-Mihroe

He relieved the siege of Petra and reinforced its garrison, but lacking supplies for his army, he was forced to withdraw to Dvin in Persian Armenia, leaving behind some 3,000 men garrisoning Petra and further 5,000 under Phabrizus to keep the supply route open.

Minnesota State Highway 104

Highway 104 changes direction to east–west in Chippewa Falls Township and continues as east–west for 6 miles before returning again to a north–south direction in Barsness Township for the remainder of its route to Glenwood.

Minnesota State Highway 27

State Highway 27 serves as an east–west route between Browns Valley, Wheaton, Alexandria, Long Prairie, Little Falls, Mille Lacs Lake, and Moose Lake.

Mississippi River Trail

Once in Memphis, the route turns right onto Millington Road, right onto Carrolton Road, left onto Benjestown Road, and right onto Whitney Avenue, passing by General DeWitt Spain Airport and over the Wolf River.

Missouri Route 107

No towns are on the route, but the Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site is less than a mile to the east in Florida.

Monjo, Nepal

The trail start at Lukla and Monjo is often a stopping point for trekkers, as an alternative of Phakding, on their way to Sagarmartha (Mount Everest) via the Gokyo Ri route or Tengboche route.

Navan railway station

A rail replacement bus was introduced in 1958 and this route continues to this day as Bus Éireann route 188 (Navan-Slane-Duleek-Drogheda with a latter extension to Trim).

Nenana River

The upper valley of the river furnishes approximately 100 mi (160 km) of the northern route of both the Alaska Railroad and the Parks Highway (Alaska State Highway 3) connecting Fairbanks and Anchorage.

New Jersey Route 66

The need for this widening is due to the need to handle traffic going to Asbury Park in the summer months as well as an evacuation route for the coastal regions of Monmouth County, and the poor design of the current roadway, which lacks turning lanes and facilities for bicycles and pedestrians.

North Carolina Highway 275

Established in 1930 as a new primary routing, from US 74/NC 20 (now NC 274), near Bessemer City, to NC 27, in Stanley; the route has changed little since.

Of One Belief

The Group was established on December 7, 2007 at a general meeting in the Elk Restaurant in Toome, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, which was attended by over 400 people.

Otis Junction, Oregon

Otis Junction is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States, at the junction of the former route of U.S. Route 101 and Oregon Route 18, a half mile south of Otis.

Panthays

Bassein and Moulmein must also have attracted some Panthay settlement, the latter port being a terminus of the overland caravan trade from Yunnan in its own right, via the northern Thai trade route through Kengtung, Chiang Mai and Mae Sariang.

Portobelo, Colón

From the 16th to the 18th centuries, it was an important silver-exporting port in New Granada on the Spanish Main and one of the ports on the route of the Spanish treasure fleets.

R. N. Baskin

In route for California, Baskin visited the Little Cottonwood mining district with Thomas Hearst and saw possibilities in the minerals of Utah Territory and decided to stay.

Raquelia Rocks

Raquelia Rocks is a group of three adjacent rocks in eastern South Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica formed by an offshoot of Atlantic Club Ridge halfway along the Zodiac boat route linking the Spanish Antarctic Base and the Bulgarian Antarctic Base on the island.

Sasser

Sasser Pass (also Saser Pass, Saser-la), on the old caravan route between Ladakh and Yarkand

Staveley Town railway station

Normal passenger traffic over the Doe Lea Branch ceased in 1930 and the route was severed by the closure of Rowthorn Tunnel near Hardwick Hall.

Trams in Bern

This new route was introduced in view of the construction of a high-rise hospital building for the Inselspital.

Virginia State Route 28

Several historical markers can be seen along Route 28 as it passes through Fauquier including Supreme Court Justice John Marshall's birthplace and the raid on Catlett Station.

Western Road Liners

Western Road Liners is an Australian bus and coach company operating route, school and charter services in Parkes.

William Henry Bay

After Alaska was purchased by the US Government in 1867, the first effort to identify the timber trade route from Lynn Canal to Haines via William Henry Bay was made in 1869 by Navy Commander Richard Worsam Meade.

Yonge–University–Spadina line

This extension will likely replace the portion of York Region Transit's Viva Orange bus rapid transit line that covers the Downsview – York University route.


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