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Dwight D. Eisenhower \n\nBringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease the tensions of the Cold War. He pursued the moderate policies of "Modern Republicanism," pointing out as he left office, "America is today the strongest, most influential, and most productive nation in the world." \n\nBorn in Texas in 1890, brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven sons. He excelled in sports in high school, and received an appointment to West Point. Stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he married in 1916....
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1. Letter E\n2. A MAP
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Try this website for information on the History of Street Names and Street Naming in North America:\n\nhttp://www.potifos.com/streetname.html
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it all started with a bridge being built between Indiana and Kentucky. The Man in Charge of the Indiana side was named Sam Hoosier. People started refuring to his workers as hoosiers.
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He was a famous explorer
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The  bush administration  was acting like  a "my way  or the highway"  was a good  attitude.\n We have offered him the highway. It is our home   he is just a head of the servants.\nAll  public servants would do well to remember this.
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I hope this Help you a little ..The Old State Road (Route 29)\nin Oppenheim\n\n \n\nHector Allen, Town Historian of Oppenheim wrote the following piece;  Dated 1/31/87.\nWith his knowledge, this article has been transrcibed and posted.\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThe bulk of this material is taken from an article done about 1903 by Robert L. Jeffers.  In his heading, he states that these are "facts gathered from Personal Observations by the Author, from Research and from Interviews with Aged People Who Remembered Many Incidents of their Youth." \n\nWhen I received this article from Mr. Lewis Decker, currently the Fulton County Historian, I went across the "Old State Road" to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Brown’s residence and talked to them about it.  The anecdotes I got from them are in parenthesis.\n\nThe original article starts in Salisbury and goes East through Oppenheim, Lassellsville, "Grab-all" or Garoga, Johnstown and to Tribes Hill.  I only have copied the parts pertinent to Oppenheim.\n\nThe Old State Road passed eastward through Salisbury Center, Herkimer County, and continuing its course about four miles crossed the East Canada Creek at Brockett’s Bridge, now Dolgeville, and entered what is now the county of Fulton. . . . .\n\nMr. Kibbie kept and owned the Manheim Hotel at Brockett’s Bridge about 60 years ago. The Hamlet derived its name from families of Brocketts who resided in that locality, some of whom were prominent politicians. One of the Brocketts was named as a Presidential Elector by one of the great political parties many years ago. . . . . . Some sixty years ago Mr. Kibbie, keeper of the Manheim Hotel, was about 40 years of age. He was quite a heavy built man and but little given to talking. He had a wife and children and died many years ago. The hotel was quite a large two-story building, with a basement and painted white. It stood on the west side of East Canada Creek in what is now the village of Dolgeville. It has passed through successive hands, been remodeled, but is still used as a hotel. The writer has taken his rations and slept the sleep of the just beneath the roof of that ancient hostelry.\n\nZephi Brockett kept the Brockett House just on the East side of the creek at Brockett’s Bridge about seventy years ago. He was a very cheerful, pleasant man and a very popular landlord. He was about 40 years of age, and kept the hotel for many years. He was a Whig in politics and a Methodist in religion. He never drank himself, nor would he sell liquor to a person who was intoxicated. He was mammoth in size, as was his wife. They were compelled to occupy separate seats when riding in a buggy or cutter. He had an extensive trade and accumulated lots of money. He had several children and died of dropsy and old age about 35 years ago. At his death he left seven or eight farms and other property to his descendants. Two of his sons are still living who reside in that locality. One of his sons sold Shaker’s Seeds on the road for many years. The Brockett House was a white, two-story wooden building with a long wing. It has ceased to be a hotel, but is still standing and occupied. The barn buildings were also very extensive. The property is said to be still in the hands of the Brocketts.\n\nRobert Higbie ran a hotel on the Old State Road, about five miles East from the Brockett House, some fifty years ago. He was then a tall, heavy built man, about forty-five years of age and slightly gray. He was quite a talker, a Democrat in politics and a Universalist in religion. He was one of the proprietors of the state route running from Albany to Watertown. He had a wife and several children. His youngest daughter married Jacob Stewart of Johnstown. Robert Higbie, who was quite a money-lender, later removed to Little Falls, where he died some twenty-five or thirty years ago. One of his sons passed through college and later became a la
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Roe came up with names.
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Commencement Address\n\nMay 22, 2005\n“THE POWER OF FOUR”\n\nby Tom Hanks\n\nNot long ago I was reading about the problem of gridlock on the freeways of Southern California –the traffic jams which cripple the city, stranding millions and laying waste to time, energy, and the environment. Gridlock is as serious and as impenetrable a problem as any we face, a dilemma without cure, without solution, like everything else in the world, it seems.\n\nSome smart folks concocted a computer simulation of gridlock to determine how many cars should be taken off the road to turn a completely jammed and stilled highway into a free-flowing one. How many cars must be removed from that commute until a twenty-mile drive takes twenty-five minutes instead of two hours? The results were startling.\n\nFour cars needed to be removed from that virtually stuck highway to free up that simulated commute… four cars out of each one hundred. Four cars per one hundred cars, four autos out of every one hundred autos, forty cars from each thousand, four hundred out of ten thousand. Four cars out of one hundred are not that many. Two cars out of every fifty — one driver out of twenty-five drivers.\n\nNow, if this simulation is correct, it is the most dramatic definition in earthly science and human nature of how a simple choice will make a jaw-dropping difference to our world. Call it the Power of Four. One commuter in your neighborhood could put the rush back into rush hour. So, if merely four people out of a hundred can make gridlock go away by choosing not to use their car, imagine the other changes that can be wrought just by four of us – four of you – out of a hundred.\n\nTake a hundred musicians in a depressed port city in Northern England, choose John, Paul, George, and Ringo and you have “Hey Jude”. Take a hundred computer geeks in Redmond, Washington, send 96 of them home and the remainder is called Microsoft.\n\nTake the Power of Four and apply it to any and every area of your concern. Politics: Four votes swung from one hundred into another hundred is the difference between gaining control and losing clout. Culture: 2 ticket buyers out of fifty can make a small, odd film profitable. Economics: by boycotting a product 1 consumer out of 25 can move that product to the back of the shelf, and eventually off it altogether.\n\nFour out of 100 is miniscule and yet can be the great lever of the Tipping Point. The Power of Four is the difference between helplessness and help. H-E-L-P: a four-letter word like some others with many meanings.\n\nThe graduating class of 2005 can claim, with perhaps more credibility than any other class in history, that during its four years of college the world went crazy. In the fall of 2001, our planet earth and the United States of America were different sorts of places – in tone, in tolerance, in peace and war, in ideas and in ideals - than they are on this spring day in 2005. These past years have been extraordinary in the express rate of change, well beyond the usual standards of culture, well above the personal watermarks you have stamped as college students. As college graduates, you now live in a brand new world, with new versions of political upheaval, global pandemic, world war and religious polarization, the likes of which have rarely visited our planet all at once – and thank God for that.\n\nToday’s main purpose is to celebrate your entering into society, but the fact is you have all been very much steeped in it already- Poughkeepsie being the proxy and microcosm of the whole wide world. None of you were untouched by the events in September of your freshman year, none unaffected by the ideological movements of local and geo-politics since. All of you have been staring your individual fate and our collective future right in the eye for the last four years. The common stereotype would have you today, cap in the air, parchment in hand, asking yourself “what do I do now?” You, the class of 2
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"there were two roads in the forest. i chose the one less traveled and that has made all the difference." \n\ni don't exactly remember who said this and the 'exact words' but this is very close. and i think this very well sums up the answer to your question.
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I used to tell people they needed a concrete softner to fix problems in their sidewalks. \n\nWe used to tell the new students to bring us 'left' handed wrenches.\n\nAnd George Carlin made reference to a left nostral inhaler.
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They have designated routes that the bus can maneuver.
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All roads lead to Rome...\nA Draconian law....\nA Pearl Harbor sneak-attack
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In English, that happens a lot.  We have a White House but in most of the world, it would be a House White (Casablanca) but we do have Baton Rouge, LA which we should rename, Red Stick, LA.  We think the right way, everyone else is backward. We also drive on the right side of the road. OK?
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The name is wrong it is Isambard Kingdom Brunel\n\nIsambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, and numerous important bridges.\n\nI THINK YOU GOT THE ANSWER. OF YOU ARE SATISFIED. PLEASE MAIL ME ON shantanu_1975@yahoo.com and i will give you my private email id. i need to make friends like you.
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Show Me the Way to Go Home\nby Irving King\nhttp://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/showmeth.htm
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Since there is so many streets it is easier to numbered then to think of actual names.