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Albertone's askari brigade was the first to encounter the onrush of Ethiopians at 6: 00, near Kidane Meret, where the Ethiopians had managed to set up their mountain artillery.
* Bakheng Style ( 889-923 ): Bakheng was the first temple mountain constructed in the area of Angkor proper north of Siem Reap.
The first " rainy season " brings high temperatures and high humidity that condenses as dew mountain.
When the term first surfaced circa the late 1980s / early 1990s, it was used for adult sports such as skydiving, scuba diving, surfing, rock climbing, snow skiing, water skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, mountaineering, storm chasing, hang gliding, and bungee jumping, many of which were then growing in popularity.
The city's major Projects include a Kabul cable car, connecting the city to Shirdarwaza mountain, a tunnel though mountains close to Kabul university to reduce traffic jams, building more flyovers in the city with the city's first fly-over being built with the help of Turkey ; in addition to providing more trucks and lorries for the municipality.
The mountain structure forms the first barrier to communication between the Mediterranean and Lebanon's eastern hinterland.
The mountain was destroyed during an attack on the facility by Able Squad at the climax of the first season of the show.
Indigenous natives have known the mountain for thousands of years, but the first written record of the mountain is from the Spanish.
Six years later, the official narrative of this voyage was published, including the first printed reference to the mountain.
The first napalm attack in Greece took place on the mountain of Grammos, which was the stronghold of the Communist rebels.
The first objects to become visible as the dust began to settle, the tops of the Tharsis volcanoes, demonstrated that the altitude of these features greatly exceeded that of any mountain found on Earth, as astronomers expected.
It was no great feat, of course ; but he was the first recorded Alpinist of modern times, the first to climb a mountain merely for the delight of looking from its top.
In areas where vehicles were confined to a single path ( a mountain road, swamps, snow, urban areas ), RPG teams trapped convoys by destroying the first and last vehicles in line, preventing movement of the other vehicles.
When the proto-Greeks ( peoples whose language would evolve into Greek proper ) first arrived in the Aegean and on the mainland of modern-day Greece early in the 2nd millennium BCE, they found localized nymphs and divinities already connected with every important feature of the landscape: mountain, cave, grove and spring all had their own locally venerated deity.
Shoji Kawamori first proposed the series after a trip to Nepal, during which he visited the foggy mountain region and picture a hidden world where an epic focusing on both fate and divination should be set.
** Romania opens its first mountain railway ( from Anina to Oravita ).
* May 13 – A joint Swiss & Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of the Asian mountain, Dhaulagiri, the world's 7th highest mountain.
* May 9 – Manaslu, eighth highest mountain in the world, is first ascended.
* May 18 – Lhotse ( main ), the fourth highest mountain, is first ascended.
* July 8 – The mountain Gasherbrum II is first ascended.
* April 26 – Ascent of Mount Ventoux by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.
Recently the city's first wind turbine has been installed above Babakoohi mountain near the city.

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The " Black Prince " sobriquet is first found in writing in two manuscript notes made by the antiquary John Leland in the 1530s or early 1540s: in one, Leland refers in English to " the blake prince "; in the other, he refers in Latin to " Edwardi Principis cog: Nigri ".
The first cog railway was the Middleton Railway between Middleton and Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, UK, where the first commercial steam locomotive, Salamanca, ran in 1812.
* Mount Washington Cog Railway, the world's first mountain-climbing cog railway
A cog ( or cog-built vessels ) is a type of ship that first appeared in the 10th century, and was widely used from around the 12th century on.
The need for spacious and relatively inexpensive ships led to the development of the first workhorse of the Hanseatic League, the cog.
In Disney's Toontown Online, if the player has already attacked a cog and another player joins in and finishes the cog off, the first player still gets the experience points for the damage done to the cog, effectively ensuring that players that partake in the combat get their share of experience points.
It is believed that it was on board a Genoese trading cog sailing back to Genoa from Balaklava ( or Kaffa, according to some chronicles ) that the Black Death first arrived in Europe in the mid-14th c.
The first quarter was red and charged with three golden lions as an allusion to the coat of arms of England, the second was blue with a white stylized rose to allude to York, the third was also blue with a white cog wheel for industry and the final fourth quarter showed a scene of a steam boat in red and gold to represent the importance of the lake and water ways in and around the city.
England's maritime trade benefited from the introduction of cog ships, and many docks were improved and fitted with cranes for the first time.
Presently, Monte can be accessed by gondola lift, which was first opened nearly 100 years after the opening of the cog railway.
The first Austrian cog railway was built to Kahlenberg in 1872 and 1873 and opened in 1874.

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In 1894, the first train on the Achill railway carried the bodies of victims of the Clew Bay Drowning.
* 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
Peasant parties first appeared across Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1910, when commercialized agriculture and world market forces disrupted traditional rural society, and the railway and growing literacy facilitated the work of roving organizers.
* 1869The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.
Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.
In Belgium an extensive system of tram-like local railways called vicinal or buurtspoor lines crossed the country in the first half of the 20th century, and had a greater route length than the main-line railway system.
The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world ; the world's first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825.
The first British railway to build coaches with bogies, instead of rigidly mounted axles, was the Midland Railway in 1874.
Basel SBB railway station | Basel Bahnhof SBB, self proclaimed " world's first international train station.
Croatian Railways ' plan to build their first high-speed railway service is progressing.
Cuba built the first railway system in the Spanish empire, before the 1848 start in the Iberian peninsula.
Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
The first cable-operated railway, employing a moving rope and iron claws on the cars, was the London and Blackwall Railway, which opened in east London, England, in 1840.
( London's first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, had earlier also been built for cable haulage but had been converted to electric traction before opening in 1890.
The first amateur railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, was created by Victor Whitechurch and his stories impressed Ellery Queen and Dorothy L. Sayers.
* 1913 – The Buenos Aires Subway, the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
This was followed by the formation of St. John Ambulance in 1877, based on the principles of the Knights Hospitaller, to teach first aid, and numerous other organization joined them with the term first aid first coined in 1878 as civilian ambulance services spread as a combination of " first treatment " and " national aid " in large railway centres and mining districts as well as with police forces.
Outside the scope of media, railway enthusiasts are another early fandom with its roots in the late 19th century that began to gain in popularity and increasingly organize in the first decades of the early 20th century.
After a few months working as an unpaid assistant to his brother-in-law, who managed a foundry, Eiffel approached the railway engineer Charles Nepveu, who gave Eiffel his first paid job as his private secretary.
However, shortly afterwards Nepveu's company went bankrupt, but Nepveu found Eiffel a job with the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l ' Ouest, for whom Eiffel produced his first bridge design, a sheet iron bridge for the Saint Germaine railway.

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