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fear fear the Greeks bearing gifts a warning against someone who apparently wishes you well. The saying (often used allusively) is recorded from late 19th century; originally from Virgil, ‘
timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes [I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts]’ as Laocoon's words of warning to the Trojans about the Trojan Horse (in which the Greek warriors were concealed). Samuel Johnson quoted the Latin in a letter of 3 May 1777, in which he said, ‘Tell Mrs. Boswell that I shall taste her marmalade cautiously at first.
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.’
see also
do right and fear no man,
fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Performance and memory: the Trans-Canada Highway and the Jumping Pound Grade Separator, Alberta.
Magazine article from: Ethnologies; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...in turn renders the highways intelligible. The...other. Here, the Trans-Canada Highway project as a postwar...Kananaskis portion of the Trans-Canada Highway, 22 kilometres west...Department of Alberta Highways, it epitomizes an...
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Ottawa should take one approach to entire Trans-Canada Highway
Newspaper article from: The Brandon Sun; 8/9/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...travelling on our highways ... Over...stretches of the Trans-Canada Highway. Not only...stretches of the Trans-Canada and Yellowhead highways. Since taking...the ante on highway funding, putting...money into the Trans-Canada and other major...
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A Road for Canada: The Illustrated Story of the Trans-Canada Highway.
Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History; 8/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; A Road for Canada: The Illustrated Story of the Trans-Canada Highway By Daniel Francis Stanton Atkins...39.95 hardcover A Road for Canada tells the long and complex story of the Trans-Canada Highway and how it...
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The Trans-Canada Highway is the longest highway in the world, stretching a remarkable 7,821 kilometres from Victoria, B.C., to St. John's, Newfoundland.(The Longest Road)(Video Recording Review)
Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...the National Film Board of Canada, 2003 $19.95 The Trans-Canada Highway is the longest highway in...captures poignant vignettes from highway engineers who remember toiling...build a highway like the Trans-Canada was like a hockey player...
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Four-laning Trans-Canada Highway: constructing rest stops big issue for Kenora mayor.(TRANSPORTATION)
Magazine article from: Northern Ontario Business; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Compton has viewed those highway signs that greet motorists...dangerous stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway next year, finding...2 billion Building Canada pot shared between Ottawa...of Highway 17 on the Trans-Canada Highway is Canada...
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Canada: Two major local Trans-Canada Highway projects announced.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 3/21/2009; 700+ words
; ...times legal alcohol limit Parks Canada temporarily closes some winter...March 16, 2009 10:02 PM Two new Trans-Canada Highway upgrade projects in the vicinity...see about four kilometres of the Trans-Canada Highway upgraded from...
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The Longest Road: Stories Along the Trans-Canada Highway
Magazine article from: Beyond Numbers; 8/1/2004; ; 613 words
; ...more about their journeys across Canada. The family gave these documentarians...Longest Road: Stories Along the Trans-Canada Highway was released in 2003, it included...a historical journey along the Trans-Canada Highway, revealing how...
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Province To Pave 15 Kilometres Of Trans-Canada Highway.
M2 Presswire; 12/12/2008; 541 words
; ...British Columbia: Province To Pave 15 Kilometres Of Trans-Canada Highway(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...Infrastructure LYTTON - The Province will make the Trans-Canada Highway near Lytton safer with 15 kilometres of...
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ROADTRIP From Montreal to Banff, driving the Trans-Canada Highway is a great way to get to know our neighbor
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/23/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...wandering across the highway, to cold, clear lakes...trip home to western Canada, but convinced the Canadian...further I drove along the Trans-Canada Highway, and the more...saying been. Back on the Trans-Canada, it's easy...
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The last stripe (with apologies to Pierre Berton). (Currents).(documentary on Trans-Canada Highway)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History; 12/1/2001; 683 words
; ...re going to be doing a documentary film on the Trans-Canada Highway. Calgary filmmakers Kevin Alexander and David Schultz...History Television sometime in early 2003. (The Trans-Canada Highway, which formally opened in 1962 at Rogers...
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Trans-Canada Highway
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Trans-Canada Highway c.4,800 mi (7,700 km) long, S Canada; dedicated 1962; completed 1970...highway. The Alaska Highway joins the Trans-Canada Highway at Calgary, Alta.
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Vancouver
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities
...multicultural city. It is home to Canada's largest Chinatown...port situates Vancouver as Canada's gateway to Asia. By...water. Highways Two major highways lead to Vancouver: the Trans-Canada Highway, Highway 1, funnels drivers...
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Montréal
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities
...importance in both English Canada and Qu é bec has changed...Toronto and English-speaking Canada. Qu é bec City...New York state. Principal highways include the Trans-Canada Highway, which passes underneath...
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road
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Hard-surfaced highways were stretched across...States the Interstate Highway System consists...s Autobahn, the Trans-Canada Highway, and the Pan-American Highway. An ambitious...with a network of highways was signed in 2004...J. Paquette, Highway Engineering (1967...
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Banff
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Banff , town (1991 pop. 5,688), SW Alta., Canada, in the Rocky Mts., on the Bow River and the Trans-Canada Highway. A tourist center and winter resort established in the 1880s by the Canadian Pacific...
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