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Blast Bomb explosion at Sadder Rawalpindi Mall Road, Blast Bomb explosion at Sardar Rawalpindi Mall Road, Blast Bomb explosion at Sadar Rawalpindi Mall Road, or Blast Bomb explosion at Safdar Rawalpindi Mall Road ?
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quarrying
quarrying open, or surface, excavation of rock used for various purposes, including construction, ornamentation, road building, and as an industrial raw material. Rock that has been quarried is commonly called stone. Quarrying methods depend chiefly on the desired size and shape of the stone and... Read more |
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Roads
ROADS ROADS. Except for a brief spurt of road building around 1800, the continental United States was extended from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific without the benefit of good roads. The United States had few roads prior to the twentieth century, and most were of poor quality. In towns, most... Read more |
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Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi , city (1998 pop. 1,406,214), NE Pakistan. It occupies the site of an old village inhabited by the Rawals, a tribe of Yogis. A railroad junction and an important industrial and commercial center, the city has an oil refinery, gasworks, an iron foundry, railroad yards, a brewery, sawmills,... Read more |
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Republic Engineered Steels Inc
Republic Engineered Steels, Inc. 410 Oberlin Road S.W.P.O. Box 579Massillon, Ohio 44648-0579U.S.A.(330) 837-6000Fax: (330) 837-6083Web site: http://www.repsteel.com Private CompanyIncorporated: 1989Employees: 3,800Sales: $802 million (1998 est.)SICs: 3325 Steel Foundries, Not Elsewhere... Read more |
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Geneva Steel
Geneva Steel 10 South Geneva RoadVineyard, Utah 84058U.S.A.(801) 227-9000Fax: (801) 227-9431 Public Company Incorporated: 1987Employees: 2,400Sales: $420 millionStock Exchanges: New York PacificSICs: 3312 Blast Furnaces & Steel Mills Geneva Steel is the only integrated steel mill... Read more |
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Burma Road
Burma Road in China and Myanmar, extending from the railhead of Lashio, Myanmar, to Kunming, Yunnan prov., China. About 700 mi (1,130 km) long and constructed through rough mountain country, it was a remarkable engineering achievement. Undertaken by the Chinese after the start of the Sino-Japanese... Read more |
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Heshbon
Heshbon , ancient city, E of the Jordan. It was an Amorite capital, located at the crossroads of the east-west road to Jericho and the north-south road paralleling the Jordan. In the Bible it was first allotted to Reuben, later to Gad.... Read more |
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Cumberland Road
CUMBERLAND ROAD CUMBERLAND ROAD, also known as the National Road, was the first national road in the United States. It had tremendous influence of the development of the Ohio River Valley and the Northwest Territory. Congress passed enabling acts in 1802 and 1803 before Ohio's admission into the... Read more |
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Ermine Street
Ermine Street Saxon name for the Roman road in Britain that ran from London to Lincoln and York. It was one of the four main highways of Saxon England. The name is derived from the Earningas, a group of people who inhabited an area in Cambridgeshire through which the road passed. The road from... Read more |
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Millipore Corp
Millipore Corporation 80 Ashby RoadBedford, Massachusetts 01730 Read more |
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Army top doctor killed in blast Gen Mushtaq's guard, driver, five civilians...
...ZULFIQAR RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD...Chowk on Mall Road in cantonment...the busy Saddar area, informed...attack in Rawalpindi Saddar. He further...the time of explosion. The blast was so powerful...the Mall Road and diverted...other link roads. The ... |