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Circular bridge in the feature of Yee Wo Street Causeway Bay Terminus at the east end of Yee Wo Street Yee Wo Street during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. Yee Wo Street (Chinese: 怡和街; Cantonese Yale: yi4 wo2 gaai1) is a street, actually a thoroughfare nowaday, on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong, situated in the area of East Point in the early colonial history and the area of Causeway Bay ...
The southern end of the causeway at Metairie, Louisiana, in 1998. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (French: Chaussée du lac Pontchartrain), also known simply as The Causeway, [2] is a fixed link composed of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana, United States. The longer of the two bridges is 23.83 miles (38 ...
The United States Camel Corps was a mid-19th-century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwestern United States.Although the camels proved to be hardy and well suited to travel through the region, the Army declined to adopt them for military use.
Causeway Bay (Chinese: 銅鑼灣; Cantonese Yale: Tùnglòwāan) is an underground metro station on the MTR network in Hong Kong. It is located between Wan Chai and Tin Hau stations on the Island line , and sits underneath Great George Street near Hennessy Road and Yee Wo Street .
The Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission (GNOEC), commonly called The Causeway Commission, is an entity responsible for the maintenance, construction, and enforcement of safety laws on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. It is headquartered in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans.
The Bactrian camel is the largest mammal in its native range and is the largest living camel while being shorter at the shoulder than the dromedary. Shoulder height is from 160 to 180 cm (5.2 to 5.9 ft) with the overall height ranging from 230 to 250 cm (7.5 to 8.2 ft), [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] head-and-body length is 225–350 cm (7.38–11.48 ft ...
During World War I, Storyville, a district in New Orleans where prostitution was permitted, was shut down to prevent VD transmission to soldiers in nearby army and navy camps. [17] On January 25, 1917, an anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco attracted huge crowds to public meetings. At one meeting attended by 7,000 people, 20,000 were kept ...
In 1941, Camel installed a 30-by-100-foot (9.1 by 30.5 m) billboard on the east side of Times Square, New York. Designed by Douglas Leigh , this showed a smoking man, with steam coming from his mouth every few seconds to represent cigarette smoke.