Word: railroads
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...room Sofitel Central Hua Hin Resort. Yet the enormous balconies, antique furnishings and white colonial architecture still reflect the unique style of Thailand's first hotel (opened 80 years ago this October). High tea at the Museum Caf? is a veritable waltz back in time, prodded by vintage railroad paraphernalia and aged photos on the walls...
...rarely seen non-Mexicans in my neighborhood. I didn’t think of such segregation as negative, just as a fact of city living. I didn’t think about how it came to be that blacks on 22nd Street scarcely settled across one set of railroad tracks near me on 26th Street, as if by an unspoken rule...
Town history has focused almost exclusively on the colonial period and the Revolutionary War. But the latest project of the Lexington Historical Society may be a signal that interest in local history is expanding into other topics. The society is in the process of renovating an old railroad depot to create a museum about the town’s development as a railroad suburb in the beginning of the twentieth century. But instead of describing daily life in 1915, the depot’s first major event—a showing of old footage from...
...seems a little like extortion. Oh, they'll keep running the New Orleans to Los Angeles trains and the Coast Starlight from L.A. to Seattle and losing buckets of money, but the Boston to Washington route? The railroad's chief source of income? That they want to close down...
After the dotcom crash, the appetite for technological upheaval is slim. And that's just as well: most really big technologies, from the railroad to electricity, have made their impact gradually. "I don't think you ever sell a big paradigm shift," Meyer says. "It happens one application at a time...