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The technical assignment, issued in the spring of 1930, for an alternative preliminary design of a Soviet high-speed freight steam locomotive, with more than five moving axles in one rigid frame, provided for a maximum axial load on the rails of 20 tons, that is, the same as for the preliminary design of a Soviet steam locomotive type 1-5-1 ...
The Rokin is a canal and major street in the centre of Amsterdam.The street runs from Muntplein square to Dam square.The Rokin canal used to run from Muntplein square to Dam Square, but in 1936, the part between Spui square and Dam Square was filled in. Canal boats are now moored on the remaining part of the water, from the Amstel to Grimburgwal.
The Herengracht therefore still has a kink at Driekoningenstraat, where the outer moat was routed around a stronghold at that height. When the ditch was widened into the present canal it was given the name Herengracht in 1612, after the Heren Regeerders van de stad Amsterdam (Gentlemen Governors of the city of Amsterdam).
Jim Carrey isn't swearing off acting for good.. The actor returns to the big screen in the new sequel Sonic the Hedgehog 3 after previously saying in 2022 that he was "being fairly serious" about ...
Former President Bill Clinton on his last day in office on Jan. 20, 2001, pardoned his half-brother Roger Clinton, who spent one year in prison on drug charges, according to the Washington Post.
Republican senators, who won a majority in last week's election, are due to meet at 9:30 a.m. ET (14:30 GMT) and vote in a secret ballot for a successor to 82-year-old Mitch McConnell, the longest ...
For example, in 1682 the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, originally intended by the Amsterdam city council as a medicinal herb garden, was moved to the Nieuwe Herengracht. This botanical garden located on the bank of the Nieuwe Herengracht in the Hortus Bridge ( bascule bridge 239) and Muiderstraat is one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world.