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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI or B&R), [1] known in China as the One Belt One Road [a] and sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road, [2] is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the government of the People's Republic of China in 2013 to invest in more than 150 countries and international organizations. [3]
A rumble seat (American English), dicky (dickie/dickey) seat (British English), also called a mother-in-law seat, [1] is an upholstered exterior seat which is folded into the rear of a coach, carriage, or early motorcar. Depending on its configuration, it provided exposed seating for one or two passengers.
Writing in the Telegraph, Bettany Hughes praised it as a "charismatic and essential book", [11] while Anthony Sattin, writing in The Guardian, called it "ambitious" and "full of insight but let down by factual errors". [12] Frankopan's follow-up book, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (Bloomsbury Publishing), was published ...
Hansom cab and driver in the 2004 movie Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, set in 1903 London A Hansom cab on Prince Consort Road, London, 1904 London Cabmen, 1877. The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York.
New Silk Road can refer to: Eurasian Land Bridge, rail transport route between Europe and Asia; Belt and Road Initiative, a Chinese-sponsored Eurasian development strategy; New Silk Road Initiative, a US initiative for economic integration in Central Asia; New Silk Road, a 2018 album by Maksim Mrvica
Also in 1960 it bought the Cyclemaster motorcycle company in Byfleet. In June 1963, it introduced a new type of seat belt that allowed the belt to move but locked in rapid deceleration, as all belts are now today, known as inertia reel, and which it called an 'automatic belt'. In the mid-1960s, Britax was based on Chertsey Road in Byfleet.
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Silk Road trading routes during the 1st century AD. Commercial traffic between Europe and Asia took place along the Silk Road from at least the 2nd millennium BC.The Silk Road was not a specific thoroughfare, but a general route used by traders to travel, much of it by land, between the two continents along the Eurasian Steppes through Central Asia.