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John Henry
John Henry legendary African American famous for his strength, celebrated in ballads and tales. In the most popular version of the story, John Henry tries to outwork a steam drill with only his hammer and steel bit. Although he succeeds in beating the machine, he dies of the strain. His legend orig...
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Worthington
Worthington , city (1990 pop. 14,869), Franklin co., central Ohio, a suburb of Columbus ; settled 1803, inc. 1835. Mainly residential, it has some light industry. Of note are the Orange Johnson House (1816) and the Ohio Railway Museum.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), first U.S. public railroad, chartered in 1827 by a group of Baltimore businessmen to regain trans-Allegheny traffic lost to the newly opened Erie Canal . Construction began in 1828, and the first division opened in May, 1830, between Baltimore and Ellicott'...
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Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
Sir William Cornelius Van Horne 1843-1915, president (1888-99) and chairman of the board (1899-1915) of the Canadian Pacific Railway, b. Illinois. He worked on U.S. railways before becoming (1881), on the recommendation of James J. Hill, general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He supervise...
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railroad
railroad or railway, form of transportation most commonly consisting of steel rails, called tracks, on which freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock are drawn by one locomotive or more. However, there are other types of railways, including those whose units consist of single sel...
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Secunderabad
Secunderabad , city (1991 pop. 171,148), Andhra Pradesh state, S central India. A part of Hyderabad, Secunderabad is a railway junction and a center of wholesale and retail trade.
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Darlington
Darlington city (1991 pop. 85,519) and borough, NE England, on the Skerne River near its junction with the Tees River. Darlington is a railroad center, with extensive locomotive works, iron foundries, and heavy and construction engineering. The locomotive that drew the first passenger train (1825),...
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Manchurian Incident
Manchurian Incident or Mukden Incident, 1931, confrontation that gave Japan the impetus to set up a puppet government in Manchuria. After the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), Japan replaced Russia as the dominant foreign power in S Manchuria. By the late 1920s the Japanese feared that unification o...
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Henry Morrison Flagler
Henry Morrison Flagler 1830-1913, American financier and real-estate developer, b. Hopewell, near Canandaigua, N.Y. As a youth he struck out for himself in Ohio. After trying the grain and salt business, he joined John D. Rockefeller in oil refining. The firm of Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler...
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esker
esker long, narrow, winding ridge of stratified sand-and-gravel drift . Eskers, many miles long and resembling abandoned railway embankments, occur in Scandinavia, Ireland, Scotland, and New England; they arose from deposition of sediment in the beds of streams flowing through or beneath glaciers....
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