Pony Express

Kansas (61), Nevada (64), Nebraska (67), Colorado (76), Washington, Montana, deux Dakotas (89), Wyoming, Idaho (90). - « Le Grand Désert Américain » (aridité + danger des Indiens) mais conquête des grandes plaines : réseau de communication (1860 : Pony Express : Missouri => Californie en 10 jours, 6 lignes de diligences : 26 jours / 1870 : voies ferrées transcontinentales + télégraphe : occupation systématique des terres concédées aux chemins de fer, massacres bisons (désastre indien), commercialisation

voie de chemin de fer. Le chemin de fer relie Baltimore à l’Ohio en 1850. Le pays compte 25 000 km de lignes en 1855. Le premier chemin de fer transcontinental est achevé en 1869. La maîtrise du territoire passe également par la mise en place du Pony Express : inventé par William Russel en 1860, le premier service postal va du Missouri à la côte ouest. Le courrier était acheminé dans des sacoches par des cavaliers, jusqu’à ce que le télégraphe continental inventé par Samuel Morse en 1861 permette une

est de laisser entrer d'autres gens dans la concurrence. La raison historique qui fait que nous avons un monopole des postes, c'est que la Pony Express fit un si bon travail en transportant le courrier à travers le continent que, lorsque le gouvernement introduisit lui-même le service transcontinental, il ne put concurrencer efficacement la Pony Express et perdit de l'argent; le résultat fut une loi qui rendait illégal le transport du courrier par qui que ce soit d'autre que l'État. Je présume

that the streets are not paved with gold as some stories would have us believe, still, America does grant the freedom necessary for men and women to work hard in order to improve their lives. Americans can live in peace with their neighbours and express their beliefs openly without offending them. In many countries in the world, individuals do not have this freedom. They are restricted to saying what is politically correct, and women in particular often do not have rights equal to a man’s rights

curse? There wasn’t one. It was made up by the papers. The story of the “pharaoh’s curse” striking down all those who entered Tutankhamun’s tomb when it was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922, was the work of the Cairo correspondent of theDaily Express (later repeated by theDaily Mail and theNew Y ork Times ). The article reported an inscription that stated: “They who enter this sacred tomb shall swiftly be visited by wings of death.” There is no such inscription. The nearest equivalent appears

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behind them. It was a dream of wild people, clothed in skins and colored fabric, a whole separate race of humans watching him breathlessly not a hundred yards away. […] With an inward *sigh of relief Lieutenant Dunbar saw Wind in His Hair leap off the pony and start across the clearing, a stone war *club swinging loosely in his hand. He was coming over, and if the warrior had 30 any fear at all it was well masked, for his face was ungiving and uncaring, set, it seemed, on *doling out a punishment

STANDARD # = 0152066195. George Bernard Shaw New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2011. 822.912 SHAW German Pimsleur, Paul. [United States] : Simon And Schuster Audio, 2003. 438.2421 PIMSLEU Packed with travel-related scenarios, Pimsleur Express enables listeners to learn the vocabulary and phrases essential to their foreign travels. STANDARD # = 9780743533928. Geronimo Stilton, secret agent New York : Scholastic Inc., c2007. J STILTON Geronimo Stilton goes underground to find an important

Hertz because “The line at our counter is shorter.” Dramatize the benefit. Not the features of the product, but the benefit those features provide the user, or what some call “the benefit of the benefit.” There is an old advertising maxim that expresses this wisdom in a way that’s hard to improve: “People don’t buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes.” Avoid style; focus on substance. Remember, styles change; typefaces and design and art direction, they all change. Fads come