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* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
The province's mainland away from the coastal regions is not as moderated by the Pacific Ocean and ranges from desert and semi-arid plateau to the range and canyon districts of the Central and Southern Interior to boreal forest and sub-arctic prairie in the Northern Interior.
Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League ; Cuba's West League and East League.
By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).
In 1876, a branch line of the Central Pacific Railroad, the Berkeley Branch Railroad, was laid from a junction with the mainline called Shellmound ( now a part of Emeryville ) into what is now downtown Berkeley.
This was compounded by transportation problems-the coffee-growing areas were mainly on the Central Valley and only had access to the port in Puntarenas on the Pacific Coast, and before the Panama Canal was opened, ships from Europe had to sail around Cape Horn in order to get to the Pacific Coast.
The nation's terrain is coastal plain separated by rugged mountains, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca, which form the spine of the country and separate the Pacific and Caribbean watersheds.
It is part of many ecoregions, including Costa Rican seasonal moist forests, Bocas del Toro-San Bastimentos Island-San Blas mangroves, Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves, Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves, Central American dry forests, and Talamancan montane forests.
The main highland cities in the country's Central Valley are connected by paved all-weather roads with the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and by the Pan American Highway with Nicaragua and Panama, the neighboring countries to the North and the South.
* Central Pacific Railroad ( usually: CPRR ), between California and Utah
Trestle, Central Pacific Railroad, c. 1869.
The Central Pacific Railroad ( CPRR ) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that formed part of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " in North America.
Planned by Theodore Judah, the Central Pacific Railroad was authorized by Congress in 1862.
The western labor teams were primarily made up of Chinese emigrant workers with up to 12, 000 such laborers employed by the Central Pacific Railroad representing 90 percent of the entire work force.
In 1885 the Central Pacific Railroad was leased by the Southern Pacific Company.
( It was reorganized in 1899 as the Central Pacific " Railway ".
When Stanford was Governor of California, the Legislature passed on April 22, 1863, " An Act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to take and subscribe One Million Dollars to the Capital Stock of the Western Pacific Rail Road Company and the Central Pacific Rail Road Company of California and to provide for the payment of the same and other matters relating thereto " ( which was later amended by Section Five of the " Compromise Act " of April 4, 1864 ).
It took legal actions to force them to do so: in 1864 the Supreme Court of the State of California ordered them under Writs of Mandamus ( The People of the State of California ex rel the Central Pacific Railroad Company vs. Henry P. Coon, Mayor ; Henry M. Hale, Auditor ; and Joseph S. Paxson, Treasurer, of the City and County of San Francisco.
635 ) and in 1865, a legal judgment against Loewy ( The People ex rel The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California vs.
It earned the nickname " Lighthouse of the Pacific " because it was the most active volcano in Central America.
Although the Sullivan show was seen live in the Central and Eastern time zones, it was taped for airing in the Pacific and Mountain time zones.
The phenomenon is called Central Pacific ( CP ) El Niño, " dateline " El Niño ( because the anomaly arises near the dateline ), or El Niño " Modoki " ( Modoki is Japanese for " similar, but different ").

Central and later
Central to his behaviour in the later novels is the underlying assumption that particular crimes are only committed by particular types of people.
* 1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U. S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
Former Indians 1B and later manager Mike Hargrove, who won 5 American League Central Division | A. L.
The native Montagnards of Vietnam's Central Highlands were also known to have used crossbows, as both a tool for hunting, and later, an effective weapon against the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.
Four years later, in 1934, new Central Committee departments were established which were independent from the Department for Personnel.
After Khrushchev's consolidation of power, the number of Central Committee meetings decreased yet again, but it increased during his later rule, and together with the Politburo, the Central Committee voted to remove Khrushchev as First Secretary in 1964.
Six years later, Brezhnev had succeeded in filling the majority of the Central Committee with Brezhnevites.
At the same time, the Russians feared permanent British occupation in Central Asia as the British encroached northward, taking the Punjab, Sindh, and Kashmir ; later to become Pakistan.
Central planning has been criticized by socialists who advocated decentralized mechanisms of economic coordination, including Leon Trotsky and Peter Kropotkin before the Austrian school critique, and later by Janos Kornai and Alec Nove.
Rachel ’ s first job is as a waitress at the coffeehouse Central Perk, but she later becomes an assistant buyer at Bloomingdale's in season three, and a buyer at Ralph Lauren in season five.
Germany was the leader of the Central Powers, which included Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and later Bulgaria ; arrayed against them were the Allies, comprised chiefly of Russia, France, Britain, and in 1915 Italy.
It is a matter of considerable scholarly debate whether the biblical " Hittites " signified any or all of: 1 ) the original Hattians ; 2 ) their Indo-European conquerors ( Nesili ), who retained the name " Hatti " for Central Anatolia, and are today referred to as the " Hittites " ( the subject of this article ); or 3 ) a Canaanite group who may or may not have been related to either or both of the Anatolian groups, and who also may or may not be identical with the later Neo-Hittite ( Luwian ) polities.
Honduras later joined the Mexican Empire of Agustin de Iturbide, a fact which lasted until the formation of the Federal Republic of Central America in 1823.
A month later, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia's Central Committee accused Hoxha of following " independent " policies and turning the Albanian people against Yugoslavia.
The Islamic Caliphate and other Islamic states took over the Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia during the Muslim conquests of the 7th century, and later expanded into the Indian subcontinent and Malay archipelago.
As for other methods used in China, the technique of scratching the skin and putting pox onto the scab seems to have developed later than the first accounts made in China, and possibly came from Central Asia — according to Temple.
The technology was developed by Italian physicist Federico Faggin in 1968, who later joined Intel in order to develop the very first Central Processing Unit ( CPU ) on one chip ( Intel 4004 ), for which he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2010.
This statement was underlined twice in red and marked with two question marks by disbelieving staff at Moscow Central in the Lubyanka, according to Genrikh Borovik, who saw the telegrams much later in the KGB archives.
Angleton, later chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) counter-intelligence staff, became suspicious of Philby when he failed to pass on information relating to a British agent executed by the Gestapo in Germany.
They were born in Takamagahara, the world of Heaven at the time of the creation, as Amenominakanushi 天御中主 ( Central master ), Takamimusubi ( High creation ), Kamimusubi ( Divine creation ), and a bit later Umashiashikabihikoji ( Energy ) and Amenotokotachi ( Heaven ).
After graduation, Leszek Miller worked at the PZPR Central Committee, supervising the Group, and later on the Department of Youth, Physical Education and Tourism.
In the season 1844 – 1845 she was engaged in the Saint Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre ; later, in 1846 – 47, she toured the principal cities of Central Europe, finally reaching London and Paris, where she settled permanently.
However, fifteen years later his views had changed, with Blench ( 2011 ) proposing instead that the noun-classifier system of Central Sudanic, commonly reflected in a tripartite general – singulative – plurative number system, triggered the development or elaboration of the noun-class system of the Atlantic – Congo languages, with tripartite number marking surviving in the Plateau and Gur languages of Niger – Congo, and the lexical similarities being due to loans.

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