The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

`` Sure, we met a barrel of rich men but it's hard to find the real thing when you're young, beautiful and the toast of two continents '' `` Remember Fanny Brice promised my mother she would look after me on the road ''??

Rank after rank of them came down the road, and the faces were all the same, and they walked in a sea of dust.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

Day after day Fogg shuttled back and forth on his one-man air mail route, until the farmers in their snowy barnyards and the road repairmen came to recognize the stubby plane as their link with the rest of the country.

Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.

They quarrelled with Michael IX, and eventually turned on their Byzantine employers after the murder of Roger de Flor in 1305, devastating Thrace, Macedonia, and Thessaly on their road to Latin Greece.

The latter fell after a violent fight, leaving the road open to the major city and provincial capital of Málaga, which he captured after one day.

Maoists and other ' anti-revisionists ' viciously attack the changes after Mao Zedong's death, calling them the precise " capitalist road " Mao had pledged to fight during the early existence of the PRC.

The location of his house in Lower Street is marked with a plaque, although the building itself was demolished ( and elements incorporated into local architect Thomas Lidstone's house on Ridge Hill ) in the 19th century to make way for a new road which was named after Newcomen.

The factory was bombed by the Allies in 1944 and rebuilt in 1946, after the war ended, and included a works for road car production.

Maintenance for RN1 and RN2 lapsed after the 1991 coup, prompting the World Bank to loan US $ 50 million designated for road repairs.

To mention a few of the memorable milestones on the road to the scudetto: a decisive win against Juventus ( 2 – 0 ), with a goal scored by Elkjær after having lost a boot in a tackle just outside the box, set the stage early in the championship ; an away win over Udinese ( 5 – 3 ) ended any speculation that the team was losing energy at the midway point ; three straight wins ( including a hard fought 1 – 0 victory against a strong AS Roma side ) served notice that the team had kept its polish and focus intact during their rival's final surge ; and a 1 – 1 draw in Bergamo against Atalanta secured the title with a game in hand.

The emerald chalice at Genoa, which was obtained during the Crusades at Caesarea Maritima at great cost, has been less championed as the Holy Grail since an accident on the road, while it was being returned from Paris after the fall of Napoleon, revealed that the emerald was green glass.

One potential reason for this is that locals are permitted to start driving at the age of sixteen, when they are limited to 50mph for two years ( indeed all drivers are limited to 50mph in the first two years after passing their driving test ) and some are not used to having to make progress in the same way that drivers using a larger road network like in the UK are ( even an awful driver can get from anywhere in the island to anywhere else in ninety minutes ).

A road is named after this date in Panjim.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.

JMU football also won the NCAA Division I-AA national title in 2004, with a 13-2 record, and are the only team in history to win the title after playing four straight road playoff games.

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 ' ...

One exception is Barjami road, named after one of the leading engineers behind Kistas modernisation, Sam Barjami.

But after only eight months on the road with the group, he was burned out and left.

At ( including the A282 ), the M25 is Europe's second longest orbital road after the Berliner Ring ().

Between the unsafe Towne field and the long roundabout back road haul that was necessary to gain access to Wilson flat, arrangements at the state capital were far from satisfactory.

alt = Photo of painted " sculpture " of mango at the center of a road roundabout

A roundabout is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is slowed and flows almost continuously in one direction around a central island to several exits onto the various intersecting roads.

The ' magic roundabout ' in Splott, featuring road sign sculptures.

The road intersects County Route 648 ( Broad Street ) before coming to a roundabout.

Two car parks for Northala Fields are available: one off Kensington Road, the other off the southern slip road between the A40 and The Target roundabout.

Another future road project may be an extension of Fieldstown Road east of U. S. 31 to connect to the Castle Pines development ( which is in the city but only accessible via a roundabout route nearly long ) and then across New Castle Road, and then further east to connect to Carson Road.

The trail can be reached from Norwich at St Crispins & Barn Rd roundabout A147 road, site of the former Norwich City railway station by following the Railway Path ( NCN ) ( Route 1 ) to Hellesdon.

The main road through Baildon is the A6038 Otley Road while the B6151 Baildon Road / Brow Gate goes the short distance from Otley Road up to Browgate roundabout.

The other, Ormoc Valley, situated on the west side, was connected to Leyte Valley by a roundabout and winding road, Highway 2, which ran from Palo town on the east coast, then west and northwest through Leyte Valley to the north coast, then turned south and wound through a mountainous neck to enter northern Ormoc Valley.

In the southwest of the city centre, the A138 meets the A414 at The Army and Navy roundabout which is notorious for its traffic congestion, even though the north – south road at this point is no longer part of the A12.

Construction of a replacement ' Chelmer Viaduct ' A138 road which connects Chelmer Village Way roundabout to the Army and Navy roundabout will begin in the summer of 2012, to replace the existing 1932 structure which will remain open during construction.

Junction 27 ( High Cross ) is a normal grade-separated roundabout junction, but subject to severe space constraints: traffic joining the motorway must initially travel in the opposite direction to the intended direction of travel, before making a sharp left-hand turn from the slip road onto the motorway.

The drive is now known as Rotten Row, possibly a corruption of rotteran ( to muster ), Ratten Row ( roundabout way ), Route du roi or rotten ( the soft material with which the road is covered ).

The road continues north, passing over the River Colne, to the east of Watford, and it is referred to as the " Watford Bypass ", crossing the A412 near Garston at " the Dome roundabout ".

The road goes straight through the middle of Bilston, where it meets the dual-carriageway A463 Black Country Route at a busy roundabout.

There is a roundabout with the A4126 and the road passes under the Wolverhampton loop of the West Coast Main Line at Monmore Green, and crosses the Birmingham Canal.

The road meets the A5 at a roundabout, which is on the border with Staffordshire.

The road meets the A518 ( for Telford ) at a roundabout.

The road crosses the River Tern, meets the A53 at a roundabout with a Total garage at Ternhill.

The road passes through Prees Higher Heath near a former airfield ( RAF Tilstock ), and meets the A49 at a roundabout near Tilstock.

Most of the road is in the London Borough of Islington although the stretch from Wharf Road down to the Old Street roundabout is the border between Islington and Hackney so the two sides are in different boroughs.

The A325 has a roundabout junction with a minor road over the M3 between junctions 3 and 4, but there is no junction with the motorway.

Part of the northern section of the road was realigned in 1973, when the M5 motorway was extended through Somerset ; and it was diverted to the west of the Puriton Inn, to the new M5 motorway roundabout, at junction 23.