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The column massed in the low ground between Star Fort and Fort Milroy, then moved down along the railroad line and the Valley Pike toward the Charles Town crossroad, just south of Stephenson's Depot.

Stephenson's and then
By then, memetics had also become a theme appearing in fiction ( e. g. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash ).
Initially Stephenson's son Robert assisted him, but then went to join William James in surveying a proposed new line between Liverpool and Manchester.
After a sustained search across the country, in 1959 the Society's attention was drawn to the then derelict limestone quarry at Crich in Derbyshire, from which members of the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society were recovering track from Stephenson's mineral railway for their pioneering preservation project in Wales.

Stephenson's and .
Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge across the River Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne, completed in 1849, is an early example of a double-deck bridge.
Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon ( 1999 ) also contains a fictional treatment of the historical role played by Turing and Bletchley Park.
* Rat Things in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
The two designs differed in that, the Davy's lamp was surrounded by a screen of gauze, whereas Stephenson's lamp was contained in a glass cylinder.
It was constructed in the colliery workshop behind Stephenson's home, Dial Cottage, on Great Lime Road.
William Losh of Walker Ironworks had thought that he had an agreement with Stephenson to use his cast-iron rails, and Stephenson's decision caused a permanent rift between the two men.
Stephenson's entry was Rocket, and its performance in winning the contest made it famous.
The next ten years were the busiest of Stephenson's life, as he was besieged with requests from railway promoters.
Stephenson's estimates and organising ability proved to be inferior to those of Locke and the board's dissatisfaction led to Stephenson's resignation.
Despite Stephenson's losing some routes to competitors due to his caution, he was offered more work than he could cope with, and was unable to accept offers for additional work.
Her father Thomas refused marriage because of Stephenson's lowly status as a miner.
George Stephenson's Birthplace is an 18th century historic house museum in the village of Wylam, and is operated by the National Trust.
The museum is located within the Stephenson Memorial Hall ( which also incorporates the Pomegranate Theatre, formerly the Chesterfield Civic Theatre ) and adjacent to Stephensons Place, located roughly mid distance between Stephenson's final home at Tapton House and his resting place in Trinity Church.
From 1990 until 2003, Stephenson's portrait appeared on the reverse of Series E £ 5 notes issued by the Bank of England.
Stephenson's face is shown alongside an engraving of his Rocket steam engine and the Skerne Bridge on the Stockton to Darlington Railway.
Stephenson's first novel, The Big U, published in 1984, was a satirical take on life at American Megaversity, a vast, bland and alienating research university beset by chaotic riots.
Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a novel in the late cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk tradition fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism.
Snow Crash can be considered to be the first expression of Stephenson's mature style.
Stephenson's next solo novel, published in 1995, was The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, which dealt with a future with extensive nanotechnology and dynabooks.
The Baroque Cycle, Stephenson's next novel, is a series of long historical novels set in the 17th and 18th centuries, and is in some respects a prequel to Cryptonomicon.
Stephenson's books tend to have elaborate, inventive plots drawing on numerous technological and sociological ideas at the same time.

family and moved
Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.
Gorton and his family moved to Plymouth.
Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.
The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.
In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.
Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan moved with his family to the United States when he was 11 years old.
On April 28 he moved to Los Angeles where he had family and remained there until May when, suspected by local Union authorities, he evaded arrest and joined the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles as a private, leaving Warner's Ranch May 27.
Van Vogt's father, a lawyer, moved his family several times and his son found these moves difficult, remarking in later life:
Doubleday was a cadet at West Point in the year of the alleged invention and his family had moved away from Cooperstown the prior year.
One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.
" On April 10, 1833, the family moved to Philadelphia, where Alcott ran a day school.
Alcott persuaded them to come to the United States with him ; Lane and his son moved into the Alcott house and helped with family chores.
He quit the project and moved to a nearby Shaker family with his son.
In January 1844, Alcott moved his family to Still River, a village within Harvard but, on March 1, 1845, the family returned to Concord to live in a home they named " The Hillside " ( later renamed " The Wayside " by Nathaniel Hawthorne ).
The Alcott family put The Hillside up for rent and moved to Boston.
Alcott and his family moved back to Concord after 1857, where he and his family lived in the Orchard House until 1877.
In 1836, the family moved to a larger house in Edgar Street ( opposite Reid's Park ), following the demand for more heavy damask from which his father, William Carnegie, benefited.
When Aalto was 5 years old, the family moved to Alajärvi, and from there to Jyväskylä in Central Finland.
Later the family moved to the country's capital Kabul where his father served as a colonel in the Afghan Army.
He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg ( 1587 – 1613 ), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution.
The family moved to France in 1818 where the brothers received a careful scientific education.
Four months after the death of Mihdí the family moved from the prison to the House of ` Abbúd.
` Abdu ' l-Bahá was able to arrange for houses to be rented for the family, the family later moved to the Mansion of Bahjí around 1879 when an epidemic caused the inhabitants to flee.

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