In my Sunday school class the focus was marriage or divorce, "The rapidly increasing divorce rate," remarked one member of the group, "indicates that America is indeed becoming the land of the free."
"Yes," replied the prosaic friend, "but the continued marriage rate suggests that America is still the home of the brave."
First suburban railwayIn 1836, the world's first suburban railway opened in England. The London & Greenwich Railway (LGR) ran with two tracks between Depford and London Bridge. The 878-arch viaduct remains in use today. The construction was supervised Colonel George Landman, a military engineer who was born in Woolwich. He had hundreds of navvies at work, and those building the arches could lay 100,000 bricks a day. Six years earlier, the world's first all-steam railway service was between the cities of Liverpool to Manchester Railway which was first offered on 15 Sep 1830.« |
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