The fastest train in the world is the Japanese National Railroad's Hikari run, between Kyoto and Nagoya.
The Hikari makes the 83-mile trip in only 47 minutes, for an average speed of 106.5 miles per hour.
Women as young as six and as old as 62 have become mothers, while men as young as 13 and as old as 100 have become fathers.
We are put to no end of trouble by a 10-inch snowfall, traffic is snarled, electricity fails, drains overflow, roofs leak.
Imagine how the people of Tamarack, California, must have felt in the winter of 1906-7, when 884 inches of snow fell in one heap.
That's 73 feet, a world's record.
A Rude Shock
In 1864, an Australian named Siegfried Marcus was experimenting with the lightbulb, and he wasn't very successful.
He ignited a mixture of gasoline and air, believing he would at last be producing illumination.
He was right.
But he also produced a violent explosion, jolting him into the discovery that his mixture could be a method of powering a vehicle.
The drawback, however, was that his contraption required a strong man to lift the rear end of the vehicle while the wheels were being spun to get the engine going.
Like almost all inventors, Marcus was a bit crazy; and after 10 years, he lost interest in the automobile, calling it "a senseless waste of time and effort."
By this time, the steam vehicle was already coming under public pressure because of the noise it engendered.
The steam engine was considered downright dangerous, and so it was common for early motorists to find the roadway blocked with barricades.
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