Introduction To Train Travel in France
SNCF is the train company owned by the government in France and it offers train travel at affordable prices thereby making train travel in France a wonderful and pleasant experience.
Maerklin Model Train Sets
Every schoolboy wants a model electric train set and every father wants him to have one too. I am not talking about the toy train sets that families like to have running around the Christmas tree, I mean real train sets that can be expanded and built upon – train sets that you can grow fanatical about and some people do, don’t they?
Magnetic Levitation: Trains Of The Future
Magnetic levitation or maglev for short is the system of making a vehicle, more often than not a train, hover above the ‘track’ and move by the use of magnets. Magnetic levitation has the potential to move trains more quickly and more quietly than conventional wheel-based trains. Surprisingly, most of the power consumed is used to overcome wind resistance at high speed, not to keep the train hovering in mid-air.
Christmas Shopping Tactics
Christmas shopping can be seen as an absolute thrill or as a compulsory evil. It is a thrill to be out and about amid the sights and sounds of the time of year and the cheerful crowds. But for the same reasons, others dread shopping at Christmas time. These days, you do not need to leave your home much or at all to get your Christmas and holiday shopping done. That is because the Internet puts shopping at your fingertips and rather than contending with conventional retail stores, the Internet has in fact extended the ability of conventional stores to sell more products to a larger quantity of people in a bigger number of locations.
The Encephalitis Outbreak In New York In 1999
In the late summer of 1999, there was an epidemic of encephalitis and meningitis in New York. Initially, all the victims came from an eight square kilometer region centered on Queens and the Bronx.
The London Underground Mosquito
Who would have guessed that the London Underground is home to a unique species of mosquito? The species is called the London Underground mosquito and is considered to have evolved from Culex pipiens. The London Underground species has been called Culex pipiens molestus, because it is a tireless biter.