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The longest zip-line in Europe, at 2,300 metres (7,500 ft), is the Sternsauser in Hoch-Ybrig, Switzerland. [38] The Zip World Bethesda line in Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda, Wales holds the world record for attaining the fastest zip-line travel speed. [39] [40]
The history of Ohio as a state began when the Northwest Territory was divided in 1800, and the remainder reorganized for admission to the union on March 1, 1803, as the 17th state of the United States. The recorded history of Ohio began in the late 17th century when French explorers from Canada reached the Ohio River, from which the "Ohio ...
Share of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company, issued 31 march 1887 The former O&M line in Osgood, Indiana. The Ohio and Mississippi Railway (earlier the Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road ), abbreviated O&M , was a railroad operating between Cincinnati, Ohio , and East St. Louis, Illinois , from 1857 to 1893.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad was a railroad in the Southern U.S. The M&O was chartered in January and February 1848 by the states of Alabama , Kentucky , Mississippi , and Tennessee . It was planned to span the distance between the seaport of Mobile, Alabama and the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois . [ 2 ]
Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement of the West (1850s–1890s).
1832 – 1832 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson reelected president; Martin Van Buren elected vice president. 1832 – Jackson vetoes the charter renewal of the Second Bank of the United States, bringing to a head the Bank War and ultimately leading to the Panic of 1837. December 28, 1832 – Calhoun resigns as vice president.
A 94-year-old has gone viral for zip lining in honor of his late wife. David Aris rode the Velocity zip line at Zip World, an outdoor adventure park in Wales. According to the park's website, the ...
Early settlers in the village believed that the town was the watershed of the state, where streams to the north emptied into Lake Erie and those to the south emptied into the Ohio River, thus the name Crest Line. The town was not directly on the watershed line (but rather just north of the divide), but the name stuck and eventually became one word.