Word: railways
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...better still on both -- opens up other possibilities. Staying in private homes is now not only legal -- it was prohibited under communism for ideological reasons -- but also encouraged by the state. ROOM TO LET signs are springing up all over Hungary; private landlords sometimes even + approach foreigners at Budapest railway stations, offering rooms. While prices are generally low in Western terms -- from $10 to $30 a night -- standards vary. A visitor may end up in a turn-of-the-century house with high ceilings or a grubby room in a tenement block. Since the booking system remains fairly rigid, visitors...
Still, the history of Asian settlement on the West Coast has been one of displacement and suppression. After completing the transcontinental railway in the 19th century, Chinese immigrants were rewarded with race riots, * demagoguery and the Immigration Exclusion Act of 1882, which cut off the Chinese influx. Local hostility forced Asian Indians out of Washington State in 1907. During World War II, Japanese Americans were forced to liquidate their assets and relocate to detention camps, taking only the belongings they could carry by hand; a similar fate did not befall residents of German or Italian ancestry...
Lenin could hardly lead a revolution from exile in Geneva, of course, but when he asked Berlin for permission to travel home through Germany, the Germans happily agreed to provide him with a sealed railway carriage (rather like a container for a deadly bacillus) and even allocated secret funds to aid his plans to stop the war. And so, after ten more years of exile, Lenin finally arrived by train at the Finland Station in Petrograd on April 16, 1917. He climbed onto an armored car and began making a speech. "The people need peace. The people need bread...
...have been equipped with toilets since before the Civil War, they went on dumping effluent right onto the tracks until states passed laws in recent years forcing them to clean up their act. Amtrak, however, was given a federal exemption from such regulations. The practice has irked railway workers and bystanders, who have sometimes fallen afoul of the raw waste from speeding trains...
...When it was necessary to deploy the military, for example, to guard the railway between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the Supreme Soviet voted...