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A view of the street including the world record sign. Spreuerhofstraße is, according to Guinness World Records, [1] the world's narrowest street, found in the city of Reutlingen, Germany. [2]
[3] [4] Italy opened its first autostrada in 1924, A8, connecting Milan to Varese. Germany began to build its first controlled-access autobahn without speed limits (30 kilometres [19 mi] on what is now A555, then referred to as a dual highway) in 1932 between Cologne and Bonn. It then rapidly constructed the first [5] nationwide system of such ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Video of Civic Musical Road in Lancaster, California in 2013 The Civic Musical Road was built on Avenue K in Lancaster, California , on 5 September 2008. [ 32 ] Covering a quarter-mile stretch of road between 60th Street West and 70th Street West, the Civic Musical Road used grooves cut into the asphalt to replicate part of the finale of the ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
The Kabul–Kandahar Highway (NH0101) is a 483-kilometer (300 mi) section of National Highway 01 linking two of Afghanistan's largest cities, Kabul and Kandahar. [1] This highway is a key portion of the Ring Road. Approximately 35 percent of Afghanistan's population lives within 50 km (31 mi) of the Kabul to Kandahar portion of the Ring Road.
The Kabul–Kandahar Highway is said to have been designed and asphalted in the 1960s by Afghan and American engineers under contracts with the United States International Cooperation Administration. [3] [4] [5] This was a time when the Soviet Union and the United States were spreading their influence in Afghanistan.
Narrow Street may take its name from the closeness of the original buildings. An 1865 report to Parliament noted that no part of Narrow Street was wider than 25 feet. [3] The Limehouse Cut for barges, which ran under Narrow Street and led to the Lee Navigation, was established in 1766.