Some also claim it to be the oldest subway tunnel in the world, as it was built by the cut and cover method under a city street, specifically for the purposes of improved public safety, attaining grade separation and enhanced railway operations.

The similar Murray Hill Tunnel on the New York and Harlem Railroad was built as an open cut around 1836, and roofed over around the 1850s, and is in use for automobile traffic.

Caesar ordered a wall to be built around Pompey's position in order to cut off water and pasture land for his horses.

Since these geographic considerations imply that, not including the hill within, the walls would be willfully making the city prone to attack from it, some scholars, including the late 19th century surveyors of the Palestine Exploration Fund, consider it unlikely that a wall would ever have been built that would cut the hill off from the city in the valley ; archaeological evidence for the existence of an earlier city wall in such a location has never been found.

Britain was required to scrap most of her vast First World War fleet ( only two new, oddly-shaped, battleships, Rodney and Nelson were built at this time, known colloquially as the ' Cherry Tree Class ' as they had been ' cut down by Washington ').

If at least 50 cars had been built, sportscars like the GT40 and the Lola T70 were allowed, with a maximum of 5. 0 L. John Wyer's revised 4. 7 litre ( Bored to 4. 9 litres, and o-rings cut and installed between the deck and head to prevent head gasket failure, a common problem found with the 4. 7 engine.

The lowest chamber is cut into the bedrock upon which the pyramid was built and was unfinished.

The organization argues that the potential of nuclear power to mitigate global warming is marginal, referring to the IEA energy scenario where an increase in world's nuclear capacity from 2608 TWh in 2007 to 9857 TWh by 2050 would cut global greenhouse gas emissions less than 5 % and require 32 nuclear reactor units of 1000MW capacity built per year until 2050.

" Consequently, France built a centralized system that radiated from Paris ( plus lines that cut east to west in the south ).

Following the emergence of independent post-Soviet states, the rail lines which were built without regard for administrative boundaries have been cut by borders, and traffic is therefore severely curtailed.

A kora is a harp built from a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator with a long hardwood neck.

Densely built up areas of housing may also contribute to people's feelings of being cut off from nature in its free form.

The half-igloo had been built beforehand, with a side cut away for light so that Flaherty's camera could get a good shot.

Skis used in downhill race events are longer, with a subtle side cut, built for speed and wide turns.

Dallas built a 13-0 lead in the second quarter before the Pittsburgh scored with 13 seconds left in the half to cut their deficit to 13-7.

The Romans built a circumvallation, all trees within fifteen kilometres of the city are cut down.

The shorts themselves were built around recycled film footage of production numbers cut from MGM musicals, such as Children of Pleasure, Lord Byron of Broadway, and the unfinished March of Time ( all 1930 ), which had been filmed in early Technicolor.

Then he had the tops of the pines cut, eight feet from the ground, on which he had built a platform and a log cabin to serve as a temporary quarters while the mansion was being built.

( Much later, U. S. Highway 30, using modern explosives and equipment, was built through this cut ).

Jefferson considered much furniture to be a waste of space, so the dining room table was erected only at mealtimes, and beds were built into alcoves cut into thick walls that contain storage space.

Unlike in previous campaigns in which they penetrated deeply in a single strike, this time the KMT troops patiently built blockhouses, each separated by five or so miles to surround the Communist areas and cut off their supplies and food source.

The Celtic king, Belin, rebuilds an earth wall surrounding a few dozen huts and orders a small landing place to be cut into the south side of the wall, along the river front, where a wooden quay is built ( approximate date ).

These have various forms and structures, seemingly built in different periods by different architects, ranging from vaulted chambers built in the gap between the bedrock and the platform, to chambers cut into the bedrock itself.

The shelter illustrated in figure 12 is based on such a room built in a new home in the Washington, D.C. area in the Spring of 1959.

With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's ( Trecynon ) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery, and at one time had over 50 Nonconformist chapels.

With the order of 12 new Chinese locomotives, built specially for Cuban Railways at China Northern Locomotives and Rolling Stock Works, services have been improving in reliability.

Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

George Stephenson ( 9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848 ) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.

In 1935, they donated to the Dutch people their entire collection totaling approximately 12, 000 objects, on condition that a large museum be built in the gardens of her park.

The library was built to store 12, 000 scrolls and to serve as a monumental tomb for Celsus.

Originally built mainly as a dual three-lane motorway, much of the motorway has subsequently been widened to dual four-lanes in places and to a dual five-lane section between junctions 12 and 14 and a dual six-lane between junctions 14 and 15.

** 12 8 × 8 single-color characters ; must be one of the 64 shapes built into the ROM BIOS ; can be freely positioned like sprites, but cannot overlap each other ; each character's color may be set independently

Today, the village has two exits on I-94, which replaced US 12 as the primary route from Detroit to Chicago when the Interstate Highway System was built.

The segment of I-94 that services Parma was originally part of the US 12 bypass, a freeway built prior to the Interstate System that allowed motorists to bypass Jackson and Parma.

He built 12 churches for Ivan III, including the Cathedral of the Archangel, a building remarkable for the successful blending of Russian tradition, Orthodox requirements and Renaissance style.

In the summer of 1940, when he was 12, he built a boy-sized aircraft with his brother, which they used to fly from the roof of the Grinnell College stables.

Hall of Rickenbacker met with the band and their manager, and gave Harrison a model 360 / 12 ( the second electric twelve-string built by Rickenbacker ).

It was apparently built by Hazael of Aram Damascus, as part of his siege and conquest of Philistine Gath in the late 9th century BC ( mentioned in II Kings 12: 18 ).

Initially planned for 29 and then 12, only three were built at a cost of over $ 2. 5 billion each.

* March 12 – The Columbus and Xenia Railroad, the first railroad planned to be built in Ohio, is chartered.

The exact date is unknown, but a surviving account book for the year ended 30 September 1604 proves it was built within the preceding 12 months.

The final 2A test in June 1968 ran for over 12 minutes at 4, 000 MW, the most powerful nuclear reactor ever built.

The pressure steadily built, and the United States declared war on the United Kingdom on June 12, 1812.

It was built in Norway and sailed across the Atlantic by 12 men, led by Captain

Of the built up area, 3. 6 % consists of industrial buildings, 21. 7 % housing and other buildings, and 12. 6 % is devoted to transport infrastructure.

The company quickly grew with six pedicabs added to its fleet of 12 newly built hand-pulled rickshaws.

Each column is built from 12 drums including the capital.

In 1933 Van de Graaff built a 40-foot ( 12 m ) model at MIT's Round Hill facility, the use of which was donated by Colonel Edward H. R. Green.