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20 hours ago · Planned West End Street Railway system, 1885; consolidation of these lines was complete by 1887. See also 1880 horse railway map.. Mass transportation in Boston was provided by private companies, often granted charters by the state legislature for limited monopolies, with powers of eminent domain to establish a right-of-way, until the creation of the MTA in 1947.
20 hours ago · As of 2024, the New York metropolitan area is the world’s principal fintech and financial center and the largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a nominal gross metropolitan product of over US$2.5 trillion.
20 hours ago · Comcast Corporation (simply known as Comcast, and formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings), incorporated and headquartered in Philadelphia, is an American multinational telecommunications and media conglomerate.
- June 28, 1963; 60 years ago, Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S.
20 hours ago · The Pink House, the oldest stone building in Charleston, was built of Bermudian limestone at 17 Chalmers Street, between 1694 and 1712 Colonial era (1670–1776) A map of the "Several Nations of Indians to the Northwest of South Carolina" or the "Catawba Deerskin Map", an annotated copy of a hand-painted deerskin original made by a Catawba chief for Governor Francis Nicholson.
- 20 ft (6 m)
- Charles II of England
20 hours ago · Alexander Graham Bell (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ. ə m /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
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- United Kingdom (1847–1922), British-subject in Canada (1870–1882), United States (1882–1922)
20 hours ago · The National Hockey League (NHL; French: Ligue nationale de hockey [liɡ nɑsjɔnal də ɔkɛ], LNH) is a men’s professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 33 teams (32 of which are active) – 26 in the United States (with the Arizona operation inactive) and 7 in Canada.
20 hours ago · Alexander C. Miller had greater ambitions. In 1906, he launched the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad project to reduce the running time between the two big cities to ten hours by using electric 160 km/h (99 mph) locomotives. After seven years of effort, however, less than 50 km (31 mi) of arrow-straight track was finished.
