In the United States, the League of American Wheelmen lobbied for the improvement of roads in the last part of the 19th century, founding and leading the national Good Roads Movement.

The WILD Foundation goes into more detail, defining wilderness as: " The most intact, undisturbed wild natural areas left on our planet – those last truly wild places that humans do not control and have not developed with roads, pipelines or other industrial infrastructure.

New national highways, roads, and bridges have been rebuilt in the last decade to help increase travel as well as trade with neighboring countries.

These at long last provided the solution to the conflict inherent in the notion of driving as fast as possible on ordinary roads.

Originally the Hobbits of the Shire swore nominal allegiance to the last Kings of Arnor, being required only to acknowledge their lordship, speed their messengers, and keep the bridges and roads in repair.

He designed a special procedure of building the tunnels to allow the swift repaving of surface roads ; this procedure involved ( among other things ) building the crown of the tunnel first and the flooring last, the reverse of the usual norm at that time.

Since these minor discrepancies can be adequately explained by slight changes in the tracks of roads during the last 2300 years, the overall accuracy of the measurements implies that the bematists already must have used a sophisticated device for measuring distances, although there is no direct mentioning of such a device.

It was the last time PBP was raced by professionals and from then on the course used smaller roads and more hills.

The last of these roads was known as Old Bladensburg Road ( now MD Route 193, University Boulevard ) which, as it does in present day, connected Georgetown, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, and Bladensburg.

Although small, it is notable as a southern gateway to Death Valley National Park ; in addition to being a junction of roads leading from Baker, California and Pahrump, Nevada, it has the last services available before the Furnace Creek area in the park.

County commissioners were last elected in 1999, and local roads are now administered either by the towns or the state.

Boskoop has been in financial straits for the last several years, in part because of the high cost of maintaining the constantly sinking roads.

During the construction of New York State Route 17 ( Southern Tier Expressway ), the section near Roscoe was one of the last to be completed, requiring travelers to exit onto the local trunk roads for several miles.

The fabric of the town centre has changed relatively little and still retains much of its original character ; however there has been appreciable growth in size over the last ten years, with a number of housing estates covering what had been pasture, and new factory and trading estate developments along the roads to the south of the town.

* Bartram's Covered Bridge ( 1860 )- the last remaining covered bridge in Delaware County ( spanning Crum Creek-connecting with Chester County ), located at Goshen and Boot roads.

San Saba county was the last county in Texas to have its roads paved.

The last significant development was in 1970 of Meadow Farm, now the four roads of timber-framed semi-detached houses between Beech Avenue and the canal.

The Tongass National Forest was included in the Roadless Initiative passed on 5 January 2001, during the last days of the Bill Clinton Administration, and the initiative prevented the construction of new roads in currently roadless areas of United States national forests.

The finances stood in the last distress ; the anti-religious policy of the government kept many < span lang =" fr "> départements </ span > on the verge of revolt ; and commerce almost ground to a halt due to the decay of roads and the increase of bandits.

Also, the increased use of salt over the last several decades on streets and roads for de-icing purposes has decimated the sugar maple's role as a " street-front " tree.

In 2008, all roads and streets got names, as one of the last municipalities in Norway.

During the last 30 years China concentrated on building physical infrastructure such as roads and ports.

Urban sprawl in Kluang over the last three decades or so from the 1970s to 2000 has been roughly along the major roads.

There are several roads and streets named after the Huia in the North Island, with several in Wellington ( including Huia Road in Days Bay – not far from where one of the last sightings of this species occurred in the early 1920s in the forests of East Harbour Regional Park ) and also in Auckland, where there is even a Huia suburb in Waitakere.

And in several Pakistani cities, avenues, roads, shopping centres, and other landmarks carry the name of the last Mughal emperor.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

It reappears, in whole or part, whenever a new crisis exposes the reality: in Cuba last spring ( with which the Dominican events of last month should be paired ) ; ;

From early family portraits, painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed in his last year ( 1951 ) and still part of his estate.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

The central part, which reaches the last floor, is a multicolored section with protruding balconies.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

The last part of Afonso IV's reign is marked not by open warfare against Castile, but by political intrigue.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

It treats in its first part the doctrines of God and his attributes ; in its second, those of creation and sin ; in its third, those of redemption and atonement ; and, in its fourth and last, those of the sacraments.

A substantial piece of the last part of the book is set in the resulting riotous trial at the Bronx County Court House.

The biggest, and most important, program of the FAB in the last years is the SIPAM ( Sistema de Proteção da Amazônia-Amazonian Protection System ), the operational part of the SIPAM is known by SIVAM ( Sistema de Vigilância da Amazônia-Amazon Vigilance System ).

The larger part of the country is covered by a peneplain, which forms a gently undulating landscape with, in some areas, a few isolated hills, the last vestiges of a Precambrian massif.

( This last mission, that of Nehemiah, is not part of the Book of Ezra.

Before sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, Borneo was part of the mainland of Asia, forming, with Java and Sumatra, the upland regions of a peninsula that extended east from present day Indochina and Thailand.

The Borough of East York was the last Toronto municipality to hold this status, relinquishing it upon becoming part of the City of Toronto on January 1, 1998.

In contrast, the Fitzroy Lions, a foundation club of the VFL / AFL, had been among the dregs of the league for the better part of the last four decades.

* Introductory cosmology and general relativity without the full tensor apparatus, deferred until the last part of the book.

Sun Yat-sen was declared as President, but Sun was forced to turn power over to Yuan Shikai, who commanded the New Army and was Prime Minister under the Qing government, as part of the agreement to let the last Qing monarch abdicate ( a decision Sun would later regret ).

However, traditional films have frequently had much of the same sort of the issues to deal with ; film shoots may last several months and as scenes are frequently shot out of story sequence, footage shot weeks apart may be edited together as part of the same day's action in the completed film.