Six transcontinental railroads were built in the Gilded Age ( plus two in Canada ); they opened up the West to farmers and ranchers.

Six railroads bought dome-observation cars from Budd — the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, and the Western Pacific Railroad for use on their joint California Zephyr, and the Canadian Pacific Railway for The Canadian and The Dominion.

* Belt Railway of Chicago ( BRC ), the largest terminal switching railroad in the U. S., co-owned by all the " Big Six " American Class I railroads: Union Pacific Railroad, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway, BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway.

Six of the partitas require scordatura tunings, including those for viola and two violas d ' amore ; Biber utilizes the full potential of the technique, including all possibilities for complex polyphony: some of the pieces are in five parts, with both of the melodic instruments carrying two.

Six of the Horsas carrying ' A ' and ' C ' companies from the Staffords were scheduled to land at the bridge at 23: 15 on 9 July in a coup-de-main operation.

The Birmingham Six were immediately accused of carrying out the attack ; they were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

He learned of the next location that he would meet another member of the Sinister Six from a card that Electro was carrying.

Six destroyers, five of them carrying troops, would accompany Nisshin and Chitose.

* Six armed Somali pirates hijack the MV Miltzow, a freighter that is carrying United Nations food aid.

In the final Super Six stage against tournament surprise package Kenya he bowled tightly without reward and in the run chase of 175 after Australia stuttered, he and Symonds were involved together in a 50-run partnership as they saw Australia home carrying on their unbeaten run through the tournament, Harvey finishing on 24 not out.

During the brief usurpation of John VII in 1390, Manuel II ( 1391 – 1425 ) was able to gather only 5 galleys and 4 smaller vessels ( including some from the Knights of Rhodes ) to recapture Constantinople and rescue his father John V. Six years later, Manuel promised to arm 10 ships to assist the Crusade of Nicopolis ; twenty years later, he personally commanded 4 galleys and 2 other vessels carrying some infantry and cavalry, and saved the island of Thasos from an invasion.

Six picketers died during the strike, and three teenagers ( Darren Holmes aged 15 and Paul Holmes and Paul Womersley aged 14 ) died picking coal from a colliery waste heap in the winter.

Six major open cut coal mines and one underground dot the landscape surrounding the town and provide its main employment opportunities.

* Wallace Jct provided access to the coal fields of Midland, Howesville and Clay City along Section Six of the Monon line.

The two were separated from each other by the Six Bagatelles of Op. 126.

A principal character in the book " Six Suspects " ( ISBN 0-385-60815-2 ) by Vikas Swarup is from the Andaman Islands.

Six minutes after the successful burn of the S-IVB, the Command / Service Module, containing the crew, separated from the rocket and traveled for before turning around and retrieving the Lunar Module from inside the expended rocket stage.

Six apostles, from the Jelling church, Denmark.

Six Serbian MiG-29 were shot down by NATO ( 4 USAF F-15C, 1 USAF F-16C, 1 Dutch F-16A MLU ), all of them using AIM-120 missiles ( the kill by the F-16C may have happened due to friendly fire, from SA-7 MANPAD fired by Serbian infantry ).

Between 1909 and 1911 George Butterworth produced settings in two collections or cycles, as Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad, and Bredon Hill and other songs.

The Six Dynasties era saw the rise of the Xuanxue philosophical school and the maturation of Chinese Buddhism, which had entered China from India during the Late Han Dynasties.

Six may be referred to as " Jimmie Hicks " or " Jimmie Hicks from the sticks ", examples of rhyming slang.

Copacabana beach stretches from Posto Dois ( lifeguard watchtower Two ) to Posto Seis ( lifeguard watchtower Six ).

* The New Songs from the Jade Terrace, a poetry collection from the Six Dynasties period.

Although, in 2007, Dan Bahat stated that Six graves from the first century were found on the area of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Screenshot from Six Men Getting Sick.

In the most common variant ( Double Six ) the values range from blank or 0 ( no pips ) to 6.

During his time in Canada, Sapir also acted as an advocate for Indigenous rights, arguing publicly for introduction of better medical care for Indigenous communities, and assisting the Six Nation Iroquois in trying to recover eleven wampum belts that had been stolen from the reservation and were on display in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania, the belts were only returned to the Iroquois in 1988.

Six Prime Ministers from neighbouring countries are expected to participate, according to a Fiji Times report on 23 February.

Six episodes from series one were a core text in the Year 12 English Advanced syllabus for the Higher School Certificate in New South Wales ( 2000 – 2008 ) for Module C: Representation and Text: Elective 1: Telling the Truth.

Six of George's siblings reached maturity, including two older half-brothers, Lawrence and Augustine, from his father's first marriage to Jane Butler Washington, and four full siblings, Samuel, Elizabeth ( Betty ), John Augustine and Charles.

The area had been newly settled mostly by Anglo-American and other Loyalists from the Thirteen Colonies, as well as the Six Nations of the Iroquois, who had been allies during the war.

Six manned Mercury missions were made, all controlled from the Mercury Control Center near the launch site.

* 1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.

Billy Kidd, part Abenaki from Vermont, became the first American male to medal in alpine skiing in the Olympics, taking silver at age 20 in the slalom in the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. Six years later at the 1970 World Championships, Kidd won the gold medal in the combined event and took the bronze medal in the slalom.

Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.

Six miles later, there is an interchange between Pennsylvania Route 412 and I-78 in Hellertown.

In the early 18th century, a tribal confederacy known as the Six Nations of the Iroquois, headquartered in New York, ruled the Indian ( Native American ) tribes of Pennsylvania, including those who lived near what would become Lock Haven.

The land was ceded by the Iroquois Six Nations officially by the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768 to Penn family as proprietors of Pennsylvania province.

Odean Pope, ( 1938 – present ), jazz tenor saxophonist, was born in Ninety Six but grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* Six Army Corps of Engineers impoundments ( Baldhill Dam at Lake Ashtabula, North Dakota, Tom Jenkins Dam and Burr Oak Lake, William H. Harsha Lake known as East Fork Lake, Ohio, Tionesta Lake, the Kinzua Dam, and Allegheny Reservoir, Pennsylvania )

Six months later, Chew, aged 32, was chosen to be Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania.

" According to Albert Wardin there is also "... one church, located in Pennsylvania, which still carries Six Principle in its name, but its current pastor does not observe all the six principles.

The famous stoneworks Six Steeds of Zhao Mausoleum are exhibited in the Stele Forest Museum of Xi ' an ( 4 steeds ) and Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, U. S. ( 2 steeds ) separately.

The final treaty was signed on November 5 with one signatory for each of the Six Nations and in the presence of representatives from New Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania as well as Johnson.

The treaty also settled land claims between the Six Nations and the Penn family, the proprietors of Pennsylvania, where the lands acquired in 1768 were called the " New Purchase.

The final portion of the Line of Property in Pennsylvania, called the Purchase line in that State, was fixed in 1773 by representatives from the Six Nations and Pennsylvania who met at a spot called Canoe Place at the confluence of West Branch of the Susquehanna River and Cush Cushion Creek in what is now Cherry Tree, Pennsylvania.

The 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, colloquially known as the Triple Six Fix, was a plot to rig the Daily Number, a three digit game the Pennsylvania Lottery offers.

Tanacharison's introduction of Croghan to the Virginia commissioners is further evidence that Croghan organized and led the 1748 Ohio Indian Confederation that Pennsylvania recognized as independent of the Six Nations and appointed Croghan as the colony's representative in negotiations: Brethren, it is a great while since our brother, the Buck ( meaning Mr. George Croghan ) has been doing business between us, & our brother of Pennsylvania, but we understand he does not intend to do any more, so I now inform you that he is approv'd of by our Council at Onondago, for we sent to them to let them know how he has helped us in our councils here and to let you & him know that he is one of our people and shall help us still & be one of our council, I deliver him this string of wampum.

The Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy released the land to Pennsylvania in January 1789 for payments of $ 2, 000 from Pennsylvania and $ 1, 200 from the federal government.

Six were bought by the former Pennsylvania Railroad, but in 1963 they were supplanted by the Silverliner II cars, which used an improved Pioneer III body for Philadelphia-area commuter rail service on the PRR and Reading Company lines.

The Blue Eyed Six were a group of six men, all of them coincidentally blue-eyed, who were arrested and indicted on first degree murder charges in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, in 1879.

* The story of the Blue Eyed Six is recounted in a stage play, which plays locally in Pennsylvania, and in a documentary film of the same name, by Bruce and Brian Kreider.

Six months after Eleventh Air Force had been redesignated in Alaska, a further Headquarters, Eleventh Air Force was activated at Olmsted Field in Pennsylvania, on 13 May 1946.