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unusual facts about Trans-Asian Railway



1956 in Canadian football

The day after the game, Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 crashed into Mount Slesse, killing five players and one official who were on their way from Vancouver to Calgary.

Agung Laksono

Laksono is known for his brash condescendence and overtly harsh remarks towards Singapore, especially with regards to the island republic's diplomatic calls to the Indonesian government to curb the acrid trans-boundary haze that shrouds large areas of Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore annually as a result of extensive "slash and burn" cultivation in Sumatra, Kalimantan and other Indonesian territories.

Alcock Island

Alcock Island is for Sir John W. Alcock (1892–1919), who, with Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, made the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight on June 14–15, 1919.

Arthur Kellam Tylee

In October 1920 Tyle, accompanied by Flight Lieutenant George Thompson, set out to complete the last leg of the first trans-Canadian flight (which had started in Halifax in July), departing from Calgary in a de Havilland DH-9A.

Attraction to transgender people

Erotic materials created for people attracted to trans men have become more visible in recent years, largely due to pornographic actor Buck Angel.

Battle of Palmyra

An expanded Brigade group called Habforce had during the Anglo-Iraqi war advanced across the desert from Trans-Jordan to relieve the British garrison at RAF Habbaniya on the Euphrates River and had then assisted in the taking of Baghdad.

Bedford, Pennsylvania

While Buchanan was there the first trans-Atlantic cable message was sent to his room from Queen Victoria on August 17, 1858.

Beograd, uživo '97 – 1

Beograd, uživo '97 – 1 (trans. Belgrade, Live '97 - 1) is the first disc of the fourth live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997.

British Columbia Highway 14

In the east, Highway 14 begins at an interchange with the Trans-Canada Highway (Exit 14) in north Langford, proceeding south for 3 km (2 mi) as the Veterans Memorial Parkway through the community of Langford before turning west and continuing through Langford and Metchosin for 22 km (14 mi), also passing by a local hill known as Mount Helmcken, before entering the city of Sooke.

Canadian Pacific Railway Upper Lake Service

Over time, CPR became a railroad company with widely organized water transportation auxiliaries including the CPR Upper Lake Service, the trans-Pacific service, the British Columbia Coast Steamships, the British Columbia Lake and River Service, the trans-Atlantic service, and the Ferry service.

Christmas Canon

"Christmas Canon" is a Christmas song by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) from their 1998 album The Christmas Attic.

Cook's Ferry Indian Band

The Cook's Ferry First Nation reserve community and offices are located near Spences Bridge, a small town on the Trans-Canada Highway (Hwy 1) in the Thompson Canyon between Lytton and Cache Creek, at the confluence of the Nicola River and the Thompson.

Cooking oil

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association (AHA) all have recommended limiting the intake of trans fats.

Corner Brook

Route 1, the Trans-Canada Highway, passes the south side of the city on a high ridge before descending to the east, into the Humber Valley.

Dalanjargalan

Sum center is Olon Ovoo railway station on Trans-Mongolian Railway(Ulan Bator - Beijing) line and abandoned Soviet air force base location.

Dora Maar

Towards the end of her life, she renounced her earlier association with Surrealism, albeit staying involved in the art world through some exchanges with upcoming artists, as she did with Patrice Stellest while he defined the principles of the Trans Nature Art movement.

Harry Kirkwood

Under the leadership of Edmund Hillary, Kirkwood landed the New Zealand section of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition along with the material needed to construct Scott Base.

Hassi R'Mel

The National Centre For Dispatching Gas is also starting point for the Maghreb-Europe, Trans-Mediterranean, Medgaz and Galsi gas export pipelines supplying Southern Europe.

Kelly Keeling

In those years, he toured also with Erik Norlander, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Received gold and platinum album awards from TSO, toured with Wayne Morrissons Rock4Xmas, featuring Badfinger member Joey Molland On this tour was Backup Singer for Eddie Money and did his solo career retrospective set The Kelly Keeling Show with band mates Ethan Brosh Alex Pierce and Dave Vandiggitty.

La Ola Walzer

"La Ola Walzer" (Trans: The Wave Waltzer) is a song performed and recorded by Austrian artist DJ Ötzi.

Liza Marklund

En plats i solen (2008; English translation The Long Shadow, trans. Neil Smith, 2013)

Mansel Longworth Dames

Much of his service was passed in the trans-Indus district of Dera Ghazi Khan, where he had opportunities for studying the Baluch people (Baloch) and became an authority on the various dialects of the Baluch and Pushtu languages.

Michael Cherney

Cherney, together with his brother Lev Cherney and UK metals traders David and Simon Reuben, founded Trans-World Group (TWG) – the first and largest private company in Russia which produced aluminum and sold it on Western markets.

Mike Krusee

Krusee has been an ally of Governor Rick Perry on the Trans-Texas Corridor and other toll road initiatives, expansion projects unpopular with many voters in both parties.

O tugo jesenja

O tugo jesenja (trans. Oh Autumn Sorrow) is the first studio album released in 1988 by Montenegrin-Serbian musician Rambo Amadeus.

Ontario Highway 531

Highway 531 is a short highway east of North Bay which serves to connect the community of Bonfield with Highway 17, the Trans-Canada Highway.

Paul Landry

Landry was part of the ski team in the 2004/2005 Sir Ranulph Fiennes-backed "Invesco Perpetual Trans-Antarctica Challenge".

Pontiac

The Firebird continued to fly high on the success of the 'Smokey and the Bandit' film, still offering Formula and Trans Am packages, plus a Pontiac first- a turbocharged V-8, for the 1980 and 1981 model years.

Radio in Sri Lanka

Trans World Radio India broadcasts on medium wave using SLBC's transmitter in Puttalam.

Reality Serum

'Trans-urban' is a new genre which is a unique blend of Alternative Hip Hop and Psychedelic Rock music... fans of Gary Numan, Cake, Tricky, Linkin Park, Placebo, Black Sabbath, Meat Beat Manifesto, Crazy Town, Monster Magnet, etc., will definitely be intrigued.

Ronald Lee Martin

In 1981 he left ABC to work for Merv Griffin's post-production studio, Trans American Video (TAV), where he worked with film and the telecine systems that transfer optical images to video.

Russian submarine Forel

It was then sent via the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok, arriving on 29 September, and joined the Siberian Flotilla on 2 October, becoming the first Russian submarine in the Pacific.

South Australian Railways Bluebird railcar

Some have been converted to crew carriages and are used on Trans-Australian Railway services.

SS Baikal

SS Baikal was an ice-breaking train ferry that linked the eastern and western portions of the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Lake Baikal.

Theophilus H. Holmes

After Holmes was relieved as head of the Trans-Mississippi Department, General Kirby Smith made him head of the District of Arkansas.

Trans Corp

On February 1, 2012, Bandung Mayor Dada Rosada inaugurated the Trans Corp's Office at Jalan Lombok No 33, Bandung.

Trans-Am Series

In 1970, all of the American pony car manufacturers were represented with a factory team and top driving talent: Chevrolet had the Chaparral Team Camaro Z28 driven by Jim Hall, Ed Leslie, and Vic Elford.

Trans-Anatolian Pipeline

Samsun–Ceyhan pipeline, a planned oil pipeline from Black Sea to Mediterranean Sea

Trans-Andean railways

Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles - ENFE, operator of the National Railways of Bolivia, and consultant Hagler Bailly, United States, have signed a contract to undertake an economic feasibility study into the proposed $US 1 billion 338 km AiquileSanta Cruz Railway (IRJ July p6).

Trans-Bridge Lines

Connections are also available on certain Trans-Bridge schedules to John F. Kennedy International Airport, with service running to and from Terminal 4 at the Q10 bus stop, twice daily as well as Newark Airport.

Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831

Also killed was Charles Stone of Montreal, a former co-owner of the Canadian Football League's (CFL) Montreal Alouettes; his death occurred during the CFL's Grey Cup week in Vancouver.

Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War

The Confederate territory of Arizona was proclaimed by Col. John Baylor after victories in the First Battle of Mesilla at Mesilla, New Mexico, and the capture of several Union forces.

United States Playing Card Company

Introduced in 1927 in commemoration of Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis, Aviator playing cards feature a bordered, monotone back design of predominantly circles.

Wardenclyffe Tower

Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917) also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early wireless transmission tower designed by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York and intended for commercial trans-Atlantic wireless telephony, broadcasting, and proof-of-concept demonstrations of wireless power transmission.

Wavy Spice

A frank and personal interrogation of normative perceptions of colonial history, this track, and her vocal support of Queer, Trans*, woman and fem sexuality, have gained her critical acclaim and support in the music world from other QTPOC rappers such as Mykki Blanco and Le1f.

Weber School

The Doris and Alex Weber Jewish Community High School, formerly New Atlanta Jewish Community High School, is a trans-denominational Jewish high school located in Sandy Springs, Georgia, a suburban Atlanta-metro area city.

William Samuel Henson

Henson appeared as a character in a fictional newspaper story by Edgar Allan Poe, which recounted a supposed trans-Atlantic balloon trip, in which Henson was one of the passengers on the balloon.

Wire Service

Wire Service focuses on three reporters for the fictional Trans-Globe wire service, which was similar to (and obviously inspired by) real-life news wire services such as the Associated Press and United Press International.

Woomera, South Australia

Easements through the WPA allows public transit on the Trans-Australian Railway, the Central Australian Railway, the Stuart Highway, and the Coober Pedy-William Creek Road.


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