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• Concourse
  ...enter convention center], a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_station railway station], an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_terminal airport termin
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• Vestibule
  :b : an enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car
  1,011 bytes (159 words) - 02:42, 13 December 2020
• Infrastructure
  ...ans subgrade, the native [[material]] underneath a constructed pavement or railway. The word is a combination of the [[Latin]] prefix "infra", [[meaning]] "be
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• Barriers
  ...omatic full barriers'' are a set of four half-barriers closing a road at a railway [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_crossing level crossing].
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• Journey
  ..., prosperous, successful, tedious, uncomfortable journey; a j. by railway, railway j., j. on foot; j. to London, to the continent, into the country, etc. Phra
  4 KB (659 words) - 22:29, 12 December 2020
• Transfiguration
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Gurdjieff Gurdjieff] while seated in a railway carriage.
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• Sabotage
  * A French railway strike of 1910, when workers destroyed the wooden shoes, or sabots, that he ...nes in the late 1990s in an attempt to extort DM10 million from the German railway operator Deutsche Bahn. He is now serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
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• Bletchley Park
  ...h supplied many of the codebreakers, at Bletchley with the main West Coast railway line from London. It was also chosen for its proximity to a major road A5 t
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• Blueprint
  ...widespread use immediately, notably in shipbuilding and the manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock.
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• Perspective
  Perspective is also seen in the way the parallel lines of railway tracks appear to meet at a distant point, the ''[[vanishing point]]''. Thi
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• 2008-05-11-Fear, Selfishness, & Ego
  ...get you into great difficulties. One does not bravely risk a picnic on a railway track, a siesta at the very edge of a cliff, or in a tree top. Being devoi
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• Canal
  ...tween two levels; and inclined planes where a caisson is hauled up a steep railway.
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• Edwin Arnold
  ...he phrase "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape-Cairo_railway Cape to Cairo railway]" subsequently popularized by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes C
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• Transportation
  ...airways, waterways, canals and pipelines, and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (i
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• Forgiveness
  * The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality, and Foregiveness, Eric Loma
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 5
  ...controls, and tossed out at the end of the day into the entrance halls of railway stations, those cathedrals of departure for the hell of weekdays and the nu
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• Service
  ::d. In the restaurant-car of a railway train, on a ship, etc.: the serving of a meal at one of a number of separat
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/Chapter 1
  ...cover it up decently any longer, this commonplace creature roams naked in railway stations and vacant lots; it confronts you at each evasion of yourself, it
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• 1987-06-04-Truth in Folklore
  Clara But it's like a train going along a railway line, you don't see it, but you know it's there.
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 20
  ...is poetry? In 1895, during an ill-advised and seemingly foredoomed French railway worker's strike, one trade unionist stood up and mentioned and ingenious an
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