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2 godz. temu · Great Western Railway (GWR) is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the Greater Western passenger railway franchise. It manages 197 stations and its trains call at over 270. GWR operates long-distance inter-city services along the Great Western Main Line to and from the West of England and South Wales, inter-city services from London to the West Country via the ...
1 dzień temu · High Speed 2 (HS2) is a high-speed railway which is under construction in England.The route will be between Handsacre, in southern Staffordshire, and London, with a spur to Birmingham.HS2 is to be Britain's second purpose-built high-speed railway after High Speed 1, which connects London to the Channel Tunnel.The majority of the project is planned to be completed between 2029 and 2033.
1 dzień temu · A car was stolen roughly every eight minutes in the UK last year, according to DVLA figures. Some 64,087 vehicles were reported stolen - an increase of 5% on the previous year. While car thefts ...
2 godz. temu · The British East India Company paid bounties for tigers since 1757, and tiger hunting continued under the British Raj. An estimated 80,000 tigers were killed between 1875 and 1925. [221] [222] King George V on his visit to colonial India in 1911 killed 39 tigers in 10 days.
1 dzień temu · Svalbard (/ ˈ s v ɑː l b ɑːr (d)/ SVAHL-bar(d), Urban East Norwegian: [ˈsvɑ̂ːɫbɑr]), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.North of mainland Europe, it lies about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole.The islands of the group range from 74° to 81° north latitude, and from 10° to 35° east longitude.
1 dzień temu · Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman serving since 2019 as the 40th governor of California.A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.. Newsom graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989.
1 dzień temu · Falun Gong (UK: / ˌ f ɑː l ʊ n ˈ ɡ ɒ ŋ, ˌ f æ l-,-ˈ ɡ ʊ ŋ / FAH-lun GONG, FAL-, - GUUNG, US: /-ˈ ɡ ɔː ŋ /- GAWNG) or Falun Dafa (/ ˈ d ɑː f ə / DAH-fə; lit. ' Dharma Wheel Practice ') is a new religious movement. Falun Gong was founded by its leader Li Hongzhi in China in the early 1990s. Falun Gong has its global headquarters in Dragon Springs, a 427-acre (1.73 ...
