Britannica online encyclopedia article on drag racing:form of motor racing that originated in the United States and in which two contestants race from a standing start side by side on a drag strip—a flat, straight course, most commonly 14 mile (0.4 km) long. Both elapsed time (in seconds) and final speed (in miles per hour; mph) are recorded,...

Britannica online encyclopedia article on Canadian Northern Railway:...transcontinental railways in a country that was yet little more than a narrow corridor from east to west, two Canadian private entrepreneurs, William Mackenzie and Donald Mann, built or bought the Canadian Northern bit by bit with lavish subsidies from provincial governments. By 1914 Canada had...

Britannica online encyclopedia article on British Railways:former national railway system of Great Britain, created by the Transport Act of 1947, which inaugurated public ownership of the railroads. The first railroad built in Great Britain was the Stockton and Darlington, opened in 1825. It used a steam locomotive built by George Stephenson and was...

Britannica online encyclopedia article on Ho Chi Minh City:City Hall, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet.© Digital Vision/Getty Imageslargest city in Vietnam; it was the former capital of the French protectorate of Cochinchina (1862–1954) and of South Vietnam (1954–75). The city lies along the Saigon River (Song Sai Gon) to the north of the Mekong...

Britannica online encyclopedia article on Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.:privately owned company that operates one of Canada’s two transcontinental railroad systems. The company was established to complete a transcontinental railroad that the government had begun under the agreement by which British Columbia entered the confederation in 1871. The main line from...

Britannica online encyclopedia article on Miami-Dade:...in 152 counties. The county with the largest concentration of Hispanics was Los Angeles county, with more than four million Hispanics; counties with more than one million Hispanics included Miami-Dade (encompassing Miami) in Florida, Harris (Houston) in Texas, and Cook (Chicago) in Illinois.

Britannica online encyclopedia article on Chia-i (county, Taiwan): hsien (county), west-central Taiwan, with an area of 734 square miles (1,902 square km). It is bounded by the hsien of Yün-lin and Nan-t’ou (north), Kao-hsiung (east), and T’ai-nan (south) and by the Taiwan Strait (west). The A-li Mountains dominate the eastern region, and...

Britannica online encyclopedia article on Canadian National Railway Company:corporation created by the Canadian government in 1918 to operate a number of nationalized railroads (including the old Grand Trunk lines, the Intercolonial Railway, the National Transcontinental Railway, and the Canadian Northern Railway) as one of Canada’s two transcontinental railroad...

Britannica online encyclopedia article on British Transport Commission:When World War II began in 1939, Britain’s railroads were placed under government control. The Transport Act of 1947 nationalized the railways, which were taken over by the British Transport Commission (BTC) in 1948 and given the name British Railways. The BTC divided Britain’s rail...

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