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  Stock car (rail) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Certain costly inefficiencies were inherent in the process of transporting live animals by rail, particularly due to the fact that some sixty percent of the animal's mass is composed of inedible matter.
The fish were transported from hatcheries in the Midwest to locations along the Pacific coast to stock the rivers and lakes for sportfishing.
Fish car use declined in the 1930s as fish transportation shifted to a speedier means of transport by air, and to trucks as vehicle technology advanced and road conditions improved.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1857   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
May 10 - Indian rebellion of 1857: In India, the Mutiny of XI Native Cavalry of the Bengal Army in Meerut, revolt against the British Army
May 11 - Indian rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
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 SIDE - Online Information article about SIDE
rail rope by an endless hauling rope at an average speed of 4 to 6 m.
Telpherage.—A telpher ropeway or cableway may be defined as a ropeway or cableway worked and controlled electrically, only a rail rope being required besides the live rail or wire from which the electric current is taken.
Thus the telpher is a self-propelled electric carrier running on a mono-rail, which, according to the conditions, may be a steel rail or a steel cable.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1857   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Michał Drzymała (13 September 1857 in Zdroje near Grodzisk Wielkopolski-25 April 1937 in Grabówka) was a Polish peasant, living in the Greater Poland region (or the Grand Duchy of Poznań) under the Prussian rule.
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was an American politician, the 27th President of the United States, and the 10th Chief Justice of the United States.
In fact, one lesson learned by the British after 1857 was to not enact reforms, but to instead further strengthen social divides in order to maintain their supremacy; and also to appease the gentry, who had been major instigators in the 1857 revolt.
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 Bangladesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The bloody rebellion of 1857, known as the Sepoy Mutiny, resulted in transfer of authority to the crown, with a British viceroy running the administration (Baxter
During colonial rule, famine racked the Indian subcontinent many times, including the 1770 Bengal famine that claimed 3 million lives.
Communications, Dhaka Stock Exchange, Chittagong Stock Exchange Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Bangladeshi taka, Port of Chittagong, Transport.
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