He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.

In 1851, he represented Alton & Sangamon Railroad in a dispute with one of its shareholders, James A. Barret, who had refused to pay the balance on his pledge to buy shares in the railroad on the grounds that the company had changed its original train route.

Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.

Close to the railway bridge, three lanes continue eastwards, presumably once the route of the original High Street before the arrival of the railway.

The original route structure was Line 1 Wimbledon to Elmers End, Line 2 Croydon to Beckenham Junction, and Line 3 Croydon to New Addington.

Defective surveying of the original route of the L & MR caused by the hostility of some of the affected landowners meant that Stephenson encountered difficulty during Parliamentary scrutiny of the original bill, especially under cross-examination by Edward Hall Alderson.

On September 20, 2011, the County Board of Arlington County, Virginia voted to change the name of " Old Jefferson Davis Highway " ( the original route of the road in the County ) after the chairman of the Board, Chris Zimmerman, who was originally from the Northeast, stated: " I have a problem with ' Jefferson Davis ' ...

She also went to Greece to take footage of the games ' original site at Olympia, where she was aided by Greek photographer Nelly, along with route of the inaugural torch relay.

A film entitled First Orbit was shot from the International Space Station, combining the original flight audio with footage of the route taken by Gagarin.

At the north end of the valley, North Pass is the route of State Highway 114 between Saguache, Colorado and Gunnison, Colorado, bypassing the original route over Cochetopa Pass, now a county road.

Originally considered a secondary branch route to Grand Junction, the entire route from Leadville to Grand Junction was upgraded to standard gauge in 1890, and the original narrow gauge route via Marshall Pass became a secondary route.

Several stage lines were set up carrying mail and passengers that traversed much of the route of the original Oregon Trail to Fort Bridger and from there over the Central Overland Route to California.

The first phase of European activity in the Americas began with the Atlantic Ocean crossings of Christopher Columbus ( 1492 – 1504 ), sponsored by Spain, whose original attempt was to find a new route to India and China, known as " the Indies ".

Charing Cross Road the main route from the north ( which becomes the east side of Trafalgar Square ) was named after the railway station, which was a major destination for traffic, rather than for the original cross.

West of Zanesville, Ohio, despite U. S. 40's predominantly following the original route, many segments of the original road can still be found.

The " long-and-short haul " clause of the original Interstate Commerce Act ( 1887 ) was strengthened to prohibit railroads from charging passengers more for a short distance trip, compared to a longer distance ride, over the same route, unless specifically approved by the ICC.

Also, the road's original route took it through the bed of present-day Sloan's Lake, then a convenient swale for road travel.

This road follows the original Post Road route to the Bellingham town line.

The reason for the original development of the town, away from the centre of Skirbeck, was that Boston lay on the point where navigable tidal water was alongside the land route, which used the Devensian terminal moraine ridge at Sibsey, between the upland of East Lindsey and the three routes to the south of Boston:

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

Partly for this reason, Alberta has never developed a large presence in the industries that have traditionally started industrialization in other places ( notably the original Industrial Revolution in Great Britain ) but which require large labour forces, and large internal markets or easy transportation to export markets, namely textiles, metallurgy, or transportation-related manufacturing ( automotives, ships, or train cars ).

This resulted in two of his most original operas being consigned to his desk drawer, namely Cublai, gran kan de ' Tartari ( Kublai Grand Kahn of Tartary ) a satire on the autocracy and court intrigues at the court of the Russian Czarina, Catherine the Great, and Catilina ( Cataline ) a semi-comic-semi-tragic account of the Catiline conspiracy that attempted to overthrow the Roman republic during the consulship of Cicero.

Jewish tradition regards it as a redaction by the Great Assembly of an original text written by Mordecai.

It is dated to the 4th century BCE and according to the Talmud was a redaction by the Great Assembly of an original text by Mordecai.

The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.

Because the Cubs lost two seasons to the Great Chicago Fire, the Braves have played more seasons, although the Cubs hold the record for oldest team still in its original city.

It had been the capital of Wessex under Alfred the Great, and boasted the Winchester Round Table, an artifact constructed in the 13th century but widely believed to be the original by Malory's time.

Davros emerges as " The Great Healer " of the funeral and cryogenic preservation centre Tranquil Repose on the planet Necros in the Sixth Doctor story Revelation of the Daleks, where he uses frozen bodies to engineer a new variety of Daleks loyal to him, distinguished from the original Daleks by their white and gold livery and slightly changed design.

The original entrance to the Great Pyramid is vertically above ground level and east of the center line of the pyramid.

Halakhot Gedolot (" Great Law Book "), by R. Simeon Kayyara, published two generations later, contains extensive additional material, mainly from Responsa and Monographs of the Geonim, and is presented in a form that is closer to the original Talmud language and structure.

Mellaart, the original excavator, argued that these well-formed, carefully made figurines, carved and molded from marble, blue and brown limestone, schist, calcite, basalt, alabaster, and clay, represented a female deity of the Great Goddess type.

:" Westminster Parliament " redirects here ; not to be confused with the Parliament of England or the original Parliament of Great Britain.

The Communist Party of Great Britain had the monumental tombstone built in 1954 with a portrait bust by Laurence Bradshaw ; Marx's original tomb had had only humble adornment.

In 2008 plans were put forward to re-create and flood the original Great Mere around the castle.

In 1995, the company, operating under the name GMT Microelectronics ( Great Mixed-signal Technologies ), reopened MOS Technologies ' original, circa-1970 one-micrometre fab in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania that Commodore had closed in 1992.

Milken's high-yield " pioneer " status has proved dubious as studies show " original issue " high-yield issues were common during and after the Great Depression.

It became the first of the British North American colonies to break away from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original thirteen states that founded the United States of America.

The continued internal struggle in the Bolshevik party culminated in the Great Purge, a period of mass repressions in 1937 – 38, in which hundreds of thousands of people were executed, including original party members and military leaders convicted in coup d ' état plots.

It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard.

The original building at 4 Whitehall Place still has a rear entrance on Great Scotland Yard.

A year before, Turner's companies purchased Hanna-Barbera Productions ( whose longtime parent, Taft / Great American Broadcasting, had been headquartered in Turner's original hometown of Cincinnati ), adding additional content.

Philadelphia playwright and actor Anthony Lawton's original adaptation of The Great Divorce has been staged several times by Lantern Theater Company, including a weeklong run in February 2012.

Amos has also released more than 30 singles and 60 B-sides, and has contributed original material to nine film soundtracks, including Higher Learning ( 1995 ), Twister ( 1996 ), Great Expectations ( 1998 ) and Mission: Impossible II ( 2000 ).