• 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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  • 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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