Highways to a War is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Christopher Koch. In an interview in 2000, Koch noted that this novel, and...
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Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, or the Eisenhower Interstate System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms...
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Highways. 2000: On 17 November, the Ministry of Surface Transport was bifurcated into two Ministries namely Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and...
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400-series highways are a network of controlled-access highways in the Canadian province of Ontario, forming a special subset of the provincial highway system...
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construction came to a near standstill, led to the planning and initial construction of controlled-access highways. The 400-series highways were built beginning...
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Trunkline Highway System consists of all the state highways in Michigan, including those designated as Interstate, United States Numbered (US Highways), or...
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killed there to be in the range of 300–400 or more, bringing the likely total number of fatalities along both highways to at least 800 or 1,000. A large column...
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with a chip-seal. The late 1990s saw replacement of this road with modern road construction, including rerouting of the entire highway. In World War II...
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state-maintained system of state highways in the country. It consists of Interstates, state highways, and secondary state highways, totaling approximately 1...
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Doubleman in 1985, and for Highways to a War in 1996). In 1995, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature...
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Texas state highways are a network of highways owned and maintained by the U.S. state of Texas. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is the state...
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two years, the public works and highways ministries were merged, becoming the Ministry of Public Works and Highways in 1981. On January 30, 1987, with...
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Gideon Haigh (category English emigrants to Australia)
flown to Israel by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), and wrote about his experiences there in an essay entitled "Highways to a war"....
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The total length of the nine highways in the network is 56,683 km (35,221 mi). In some documents the highways are referred to as "Trans-African Corridors"...
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Interstate Highway System']s primary importance to the national defense". The money for the Interstate Highway and Defense Highways was handled in a Highway Trust...
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The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States. The coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried...
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financing of public highways a challenge. The multipurpose characteristics of highways, economic environment, and the advances in highway pricing technology...
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The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina...
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A civil war between two major rival factions of the military government of Sudan, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the...
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Controlled-access highways in Poland are part of the national roads network and they are divided into motorways and expressways. Both types of highways feature...
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parkway. Some of these may be limited-access highways, although this term can also refer to a class of highways with somewhat less isolation from other traffic...
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aircraft to use the motorways. During the Cold War highway strips were systematically built on both sides of the Iron Curtain, in many cases in response to the...
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The following is a list of territorial highways in the Northwest Territories of Canada. They are divided amongst Arterial Class Highways, of which there...
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Auxiliary Interstate Highways (also called three-digit Interstate Highways) are a subset of highways within the United States' Interstate Highway System. The 323...
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War (Burmese: မြန်မာပြည်တွင်းစစ်), also known as the Burmese Civil War, Burmese Spring Revolution, or People's Defensive War, is an ongoing civil war...
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The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active...
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Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011...
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List of state routes in Arizona (redirect from List of Arizona State Highways)
Interstate Highways, U.S. Highways and Arizona Highways as all being separate types of highway designations. State highways within Arizona are referred to as...
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enforcing traffic safety compliance on roads and highways within a jurisdiction. They are also referred to in many countries as traffic police, although...
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සිවිල් යුද්ධය, romanized: śrī laṁkāvē sivil yuddhaya) was a civil war fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent...
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