About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

Note that by Western standards this plan was `` upside down '', as it put North at the bottom and South at the top, with the other directions correspondingly altered ; ;

The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention.

The majority of abalone species are found in cold waters, off the Southern Hemisphere coasts of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia, and Western North America and Japan in the Northern Hemisphere.

In 1787, he was admitted to the bar, and moved to Jonesborough, in what was then the Western District of North Carolina.

* 1784 – Western North Carolina ( now eastern Tennessee ) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin ; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.

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The Second French Empire, his Western European model, had been defeated in the Franco-Prussian War by the North German Confederation under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Its position as the Asia-Pacific gateway resulted in the settlement of the province by people of Asian descent, making it one of the most diverse and multicultural areas of Western North America, as well as helping start trade, cultural and diplomatic relations between Canada and the Asia-Pacific region.

All Belarus ground forces were now grouped within these two commands, the Western Operational Command at Grodno, former from the previous 28th Army Corps, the former Soviet 28th Army, and the North Western Operational Command, the former 65th Army Corps, at Borisov.

The larger group inhabited the north-eastern slopes of the Carpathians and the area between the Prut and Dnieper rivers ( Moldova Republic / Western Ukraine ), while a separate smaller group ( the Peucini ) dwelt in and North of the Danube delta region.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

Boone was served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( nicknamed " Tweetsie ") until the flood of 1940.

* In Scotland, Western Europe's largest hot strip steel mill Ravenscraig steelworks, near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, was closed by British Steel in 1992, leading to huge unemployment in the area.

This makes the Bakassi area a very fertile fishing ground, comparable only to Newfoundland in North America and Scandinavia in Western Europe.

1880 saw the Great North Western Telegraph Company established to connect Ontario and Manitoba but within a year it was taken over by Western Union, leading briefly to that company's control of almost all telegraphy in Canada.

Great North Western Telegraph, facing bankruptcy, was taken over in 1915 by Canadian Northern.

Broad shallow seas advanced across central North America ( the Western Interior Seaway ) and Europe, then receded late in the period, leaving thick marine deposits sandwiched between coal beds.

Marine regression also resulted in the loss of epeiric seas, such as the Western Interior Seaway of North America.

On top of this there are many non-European clowning traditions ( including clown-like figures in Japanese Kabuki theatre ), North American native shaman traditions to consider which may or may not have influenced what we now think of as a clown in the Western world.

The Mediterranean climate regime resembles the climate of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin, parts of western North America, parts of Western and South Australia, in southwestern South Africa and in parts of central Chile.

The disease first spread by trade routes ( land and sea ) to Russia in 1817, then to Western Europe, and from Europe to North America.

Thompson mapped and established trading posts in Northwestern Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Western Canada ; including Kootenae House and Saleesh House ; the first trading post west of the Rockies in Montana extending North West Company fur trading territories.

* September – The Western Railroad from Fayetteville, North Carolina to the coal fields of Egypt, North Carolina is completed.

* December – The Western Railroad is chartered to build a rail line from Fayetteville, North Carolina to the coal fields of Egypt, North Carolina.

* February 15 – The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the Western North Carolina Railroad to build a rail line from Salisbury to the western part of the state.

* January 27 – The Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Company is incorporated to build a plank road from Fayetteville, North Carolina to Bethania, North Carolina.

In Western North Carolina, the organization HandMade in America is using agritourism to develop their local economy and craft trades, and to educate visitors about agriculture practices.

In 2007, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians entered into a partnership with Southwestern Community College and Western Carolina University to create the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts ( OICA ), to emphasize native art and culture in traditional fine arts education, thus preserving traditional art forms and encouraging exploration of contemporary ideas.

Southern states such as South Carolina contended that the tariff was unconstitutional and were opposed to the newer protectionist tariffs, but Western agricultural states favored them, as well as New England ’ s industries.

* Between 1911 and 1961, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina was divided into the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western District of South Carolina.

These courts were extinguished when the state was reorganized into the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of North Carolina.

Today UNCG competes in the Southern Conference, which is made up of 12 schools across five states in the Southeast including Appalachian State University, Elon University, Davidson College, and Western Carolina University.

Upon graduating, he completed a course at Carolina School of Broadcasting, a 2 year degree in engineering from Virginia Western, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Radford University in Journalism and Theatre.

It was the headquarters for both the standard-gauge Carolina, Clinchfield, and Ohio ( Clinchfield Railroad ), which required the excavation and blasting of 17 tunnels during its construction ; and the narrow-gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( Tweetsie ).

Carter County was served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( The ET & WNC, nicknamed " Tweetsie ") until the line ceased operations in 1950.

In 1566, the Spanish explorer Juan Pardo came to Western North Carolina traveling through the area that is now McDowell county.

McDowell County lies within the Piedmont ( United States ) and Foothills ( North Carolina ) regions of Western North Carolina.

it had a look of grim stark realism, resembling other cities whose habitual climate was cold, instead of the sprawling bumptious open-handed greedy Western city basking in eternal sunshine at the foot of mountains stored with endless riches and resources.

The Western Rift, also called the Albertine Rift, is edged by some of the highest mountains in Africa, including the Virunga Mountains, Mitumba Mountains, and Ruwenzori Range.

Central and Western Kenya is characterized by the Kenyan Rift Valley home to two of Africa's highest mountains, Mount Kenya and Mount Elgon. The Kakamega Forest in western Kenya is relic of an East African rainforest.

In Western Mindanao, a range of complex structural mountains forms the long, hand-like Zamboanga Peninsula.

This area consists of low mountains forming the northernmost extremity of the Al Hajar al Gharbi ( Western Al Hajar ) Mountains.

In the Western Pyrenees, from the Basque mountains near the Bay of Biscay of the Atlantic Ocean, the average elevation gradually increases from west to east.

Only after Sigismund von Herberstein in his Notes on Muscovite Affairs ( 1549 ) had reported, following Russian sources, that there are mountains behind the Pechora and identified them with the Ripheans and Hyperboreans of ancient authors, did the existence of the Urals, or at least of its northern part, become firmly established in the Western geography.

This original fast mail ' Pony Express ' service had messages carried by horseback riders in staged relays to stations ( with fresh horses and riders ) across the prairies, plains, deserts, and mountains of the Western United States.

The city rises from the flat beach into gentle rising hills, then is bounded by surrounding mountains that represent the Southern and nearly the Western extent of the Ligurian Alps range.

The Hanging Rock, Western Sayan, Ergaki mountains

Lake of mountain spirits < P > Western Sayan, Ergaki mountains

The Argentinean Andes contain some of the tallest mountains in South America, including Cerro Bonete 6, 872, Ojos del Salado 6, 893 m, Cerro Mercedario 6, 768 m, and Cerro Aconcagua, which at 6, 960 m is the tallest peak on the continent and in the entire Western Hemisphere.

The area includes alkali lakes, high desert scrub, and forests of Western Juniper, Ponderosa Pine, and Lodgepole Pine in the hills and mountains.

Portola is a crew change site on the Western Pacific Railroad ( now Union Pacific Railroad ) Feather River Route over the Sierra Nevada mountains.

At that time in the history of the Earth, numerous high mountains appeared in Western Europe, including the Fichtelgebirge and Rhenish Massif.

The fjords, mountains and waterfalls in Western and North Norway attract several hundred thousand foreign tourists each year.

On the bus, Bart sings " John Henry was a Steel Driving Man ," an American folk-song about a 19th century hero of the working-class, building railroads across the Western mountains.

Vågå lies in the rain shadow from the Jotunheimen mountains which separate Eastern and Western Norway.

This biome also occurs in the mountains of east and central Africa, Mount Kinabalu of Borneo, highest elevations of the Western Ghats in South India and the Central Highlands of New Guinea.

Shiroka Polyana () is a reservoir lake situated in the Western Rhodopes mountains in Bulgaria.

The Western Rhodopes are the larger ( 66 % of the area of the Rhodopes in Bulgaria ), higher, most infrastructurally developed and most visited part of the mountains.

The Anti-Lebanon mountains is the Western name for the Eastern Lebanon Mountain Range (), which are a southwest-northeast-trending mountain range between Syria and Lebanon.

Western Karmiel was built on the Karmi ( 362 m ) and Makosh ( 315 m ) mountains.

The Scottish population became extinct, but has been reintroduced from the Swedish population ; in Germany it is on the " Red list " as a species threatened by extinction, and is no longer found in the lower mountainous areas of Bavaria ; in the Bavarian Forest, the Black Forest and the Harz mountains numbers of surviving Western Capercaillie decline even under massive efforts to breed them in captivity and release them into the wild ; and in Switzerland, in the Swiss Alps and in the Jura.

Less closely related is the Robertson Dwarf Chameleon, another aridland species which is found in Western Cape province inland from the range of the Cape Dwarf Chameleon and may be a cryptic species complex, and an undescribed population from the Swartberg mountains.