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The Highway of Death (Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
In 1925, "Rimmy" Jim Giddings opened a gas station and cafe at Two Guns called Rimmy Jim's. In 1926, the highway designation was changed to U.S. Route 66. [9] That same year, Cundiff and Miller had a disagreement about the details of their lease, and Miller shot the unarmed Cundiff to death. He was later acquitted of the killing. [10]
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
The $171 million project to reconfigure the Highway 46 East Cholame Y into a four-lane expressway is ready to begin. 67 years later, California highway upgrade comes to site of James Dean’s ...
A series of curves in the 21600 block of Pacific Coast Highway just east of Carbon Canyon Road in Malibu, California, which has been noted as hazardous. [ 3 ] A sharp turn on eastbound Interstate 70 just west of exit 259 near Morrison, Colorado that is preceded by a 7-mile (11 km) stretch of a 6.5% grade downslope, which has been the site of ...
The Jack family left their home on Strathcona Avenue in Prince George, heading to a logging camp, where they had been offered jobs and daycare for the children. Ronald and Doreen Jack and their two children Russell, 9, and Ryan, 4, were last heard from during the early hours of 2 August 1989, when Ronald called his mother in the Burns Lake area ...
Her body was later found by the police behind a trash dumpster in the parking lot of the motel. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] On March 3, 1989, Greenwell killed two hotel clerks along the I-65 corridor. 24-year-old Margaret Mary "Peggy" Gill, [ 9 ] a night auditor at the Merrillville, Indiana Days Inn , was sexually assaulted and shot twice in the head ...
By 1935, SR 29 had been moved to a new, paved roadway resembling the alignment of the present-day highway. [5] SR 29 remained unchanged for several years, until July 1, 1976. At that time, it was rechristened as State Route 373 as part of the 1976 renumbering of Nevada's state highways. [6] State highway maps first reflected this change in 1978 ...