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    Smart highway

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    SMART HIGHWAY FOR INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM NEED:With the number of accidents occurring on highways increasing every year‚ a need to develop smart highways that are not only able to reduce the accidents but also provide a better management of the vehicles plying in an environmental friendly manner is need of the hour. Unlike the conventional highways‚ they require less human involvement by automating majority of the tasks. In this project we want to design the said highway showing a number

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    In The Devil in the White City you can find murder‚ magic and madness at the fair that changed America. In this book you discover 1893 Chicago at the time of the world’s fair‚ also known as the World’s Columbian Exposition. The story follows two separate but connected plots. One plot consist of a serial killer in the city while another consist of the building of the fair. Each plot follows two separate characters; H.H Holmes the serial killer and Daniel Burnham the architect. I believe that Erik

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    The Devil and Tom Walker A few miles from Boston‚ in Massachusetts‚ there is a deep inlet winding several miles into the interior of the country from Charles Bay‚ and terminating in a thickly wooded swamp‚ or morass. On one side of this inlet is a beautiful dark grove; on the opposite side the land rises abruptly from the water’s edge‚ into a high ridge on which grow a few scattered oaks of great age and immense size. Under one of these gigantic trees‚ according to old stories‚ there was a great

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    The Devil's Highway

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    Jacquelyn Przyborowski The Devil’s Highway The novel The Devil’s Highway by Luis Urea is based on a true story. It tells the tragic story of a group of Mexican immigrants who try to cross the United State border. Although many Mexicans have died in the desert trying to cross the border previously with this particular story is unique in that it was such a large group that traveled and so many of them died. The title‚ “The Devil’s Highway” is the name of the part if the desert these men crossed

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    "The Devil in The White City" is a book written about the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair but simultaneously tells the true story of Americas first serial killer‚ H.H. Holmes. The story begins in 1890 when the bidding of the location for the first World Fair in honor of Columbus discovering the Americas is released. The author‚ Eric Larson‚ introduces the stories mood by describing Chicago as a morally declining city making it the perfect target for someone like H.H. Holmes. Larson tells that in this

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    Highway Engineering

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    road plan has a target road length of 32 km per 100 square km. c) Second 20-year plan has provided 1600 km of expressways out of the proposed National highway. d) Second 20-year plan allowed deduction of length of railway track in the area while calculating the length of roads. 3. The sequence of four stages of survey in a highway alignment is a) reconnaissance‚ map study‚ preliminary survey and detailed survey b) map study‚ preliminary survey‚ reconnaissance and detailed survey

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    No Highway in the Sky

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    No Highway in the Sky The film follows Theodore Honey a highly eccentric scientist with the Royal Aircraft Establishment. A widower with a young daughter‚ Elspeth ‚ Honey is sent from Farnborough[->0] to investigate the crash of a "Reindeer" airliner in Labrador[->1]‚ which he says occurred because of a structural failure in the tail caused by sudden metal fatigue[->2]. To test his theory in his laboratory‚ an airframe is continuously shaken in eight-hour daily cycles. It isn’t

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    For many decades a so called “Devil Creature”‚ named The Jersey Devil‚ is thought to roam the heavily wooded pines of southern New Jersey feeding off of small animals such as dogs‚ chickens‚ and other small wild animals since the beginning of the early 18th century. This creature has pretty abnormal and diverse features. Many people that claim to have spotted The Jersey Devil say that it has a kangaroo like body with a horse like face and antlers sprouting out of the top of its head‚ not to mention

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    The Highway Man

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    Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) The Highwayman THE wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees‚ The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas‚ The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor‚ And the highwayman came riding— Riding—riding— The highwayman came riding‚ up to the old inn-door. He’d a French cocked-hat on his forehead‚ a bunch of lace at his chin‚ A coat of the claret velvet‚ and breeches of brown doe-skin; They fitted with never a wrinkle: his boots were

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    Kancamagus Highway

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    amazed the unrestrained freedom the wide open road provides. Kancamagus Highway - New Hampshire While New England offers countless miles of stunning routes‚ nothing comes close to the Kancamagus Highway which curves for some 32 miles through the White Mountains along Route 112‚ linking the towns of Lincoln and Conway. The route is often considered as one the most popular autumn drives in America. Approximately 26.5 miles of the highway has been designated a National Scenic Byway

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