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The TGV (French: ⓘ; train à grande vitesse, [tʁɛ̃ a ɡʁɑ̃d vitɛs] ⓘ, 'high-speed train') [a] is France's intercity high-speed rail service. With commercial operating speeds of up to 320 km/h (200 mph) on the newer lines, [1] the TGV was conceived at the same period as other technological projects such as the Ariane 1 rocket and Concorde supersonic airliner; sponsored by the ...
Train length was down to 125 m (381 ft.) from 237 m (777 ft) and weight was down to 300 t from 490 t. The aerodynamics of a TGV Atlantique are already quite good, and improvements were few. It was decided that 325 would have a "front" and "rear" for the high-speed runs, to simplify the modifications.
Their negations, shall not and will not, also have contracted forms: shan't and won't (although shan't is rarely used in North America, and is becoming rarer elsewhere too). See English auxiliaries and contractions. The pronunciation of will is / w ɪ l /, and that of won't is / w oʊ n t /.
As early as 1968, when he began working for Alsthom, Jacques Cooper was asked to draw up a "train that didn't look like a train". He designed the TGV 001 turbotrain's look, inside and out, and soon thereafter the TGV design was born. As early as 1975, Cooper was drawing trains that resembled the TGV Duplex of twenty years later.
V or v is the twenty-second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is vee (pronounced / ˈ v iː / ), plural vees .
A G-type main-sequence star (spectral type: G-V), also often, and imprecisely, called a yellow dwarf, or G star, is a main-sequence star (luminosity class V) of spectral type G. Such a star has about 0.9 to 1.1 solar masses and an effective temperature between about 5,300 and 6,000 K (5,000 and 5,700 °C ; 9,100 and 10,000 °F ).
It is not known if Trump plans to meet with Newsom during his visit Friday. "We are glad President Trump accepted the governor’s invitation to come to Los Angeles," Newsom's office told Fox News ...
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