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English: Historical map of the Orient-Express with various destinations Français : Différents trajets de l'Orient-Express au cours du temps Հայերեն: Orient-Express Historic Routes (en).svg
Gavin Stamp's Orient Express: in 2007 UK's Five broadcast an arts/travel series which saw the historian journey from Paris to Istanbul along the old Orient Express route. The 1987 cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had an episode titled "Turtles on the Orient Express". As the title suggests it is primarily based on the train. [30]
There were four transportation rides to the peak: Funicular, a cable railway or funicular, which was renamed Orient Express, then Helpful Honda Express, and is currently named Magic Mover; The Metro, which consisted of three monorail stations around the park, including the Whitewater Lake, Country Fair, and Mountain stations; and "Eagles Flight ...
For instance, a Spanish map from 1548 depicts California as a peninsula, [8] while a 1622 Dutch map depicts California as an island. [citation needed] A 1626 Portuguese map depicts the land as a peninsula, [citation needed] while a 1630 British map depicts it as an island. [9] A French map from 1682 only shows the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits [a] (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃paɲi ɛ̃tɛʁnɑsjɔnal de vaɡɔ̃ li]; transl. "International Sleeping-Car Company") is a Belgian-founded French company known for providing and operating luxury trains with sleepers and dining cars during the late 19th and the 20th centuries, most notably the Orient Express.
English: (red) Route of Taurus(Toros) Express in 1930. (red dotted) Extensions and route changes. (blue) Simplon Orient-Express and Haifa-Cairo Express. (black) Narrow gauge railways. (gray dotted) Road and sea connections.
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Route of the Orient Express from 1883 to 1914 Georges Lambert Casimir Nagelmackers (25 June 1845 – 10 August 1905) was a Belgian civil engineer and businessman, famous for founding the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and creating the Orient Express .