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c. 2500 BCE

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c. 500 BCE

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490 BCE

Go to Pheidippides in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

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312 BCE

Go to via Appia in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World (1 ed.)

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47

Go to Fosse Way in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.)

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1271

Go to Polo, Marco (c.1254–1324) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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1275

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1295

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1298

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c. 1300

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1325

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1391

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c. 1450

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c. 1500
c. 1660

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c. 1700
c. 1720

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Go to grand tour in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.)

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1755

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1784
1802
1803
1804
1807
1811

Go to Roads and Turnpikes, Early. in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.)

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c. 1813

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1815
1825

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1829
1830
1832

Go to Telford, Thomas in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)

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1833
1837
1838
1841
1843
1850

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1852

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1855

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1858
1860

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1863
1869

Go to Promontory Point, Utah, meeting at (10 May 1869) in The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (1 ed.)

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1885
1886
1890
1891

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Go to Lilienthal, Otto (1849–96) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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1895

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1896

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1897
1898

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1900

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1902

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1903
1905

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1906
1907
1908
1909

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1910
1912

Go to flying boats in The Oxford Companion to World War II (1 ed.)

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Go to Titanic in The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)

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1913

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1914

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Go to Panama Canal in The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)

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1915

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1916

Go to Boeing, William Edward (1881–1956) in The Encyclopedia of the History of American Management (1 ed.)

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Go to Highway System. in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.)

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1919

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1921
1922
1927

Go to Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902–1974) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1930

Go to R101 airship in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.)

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1932

Go to Earhart, Amelia (1897–1937) in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.)

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1933

Go to London broil in Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable (1 ed.)

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1935

Go to Hughes, Howard Robard (1905–1976) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1937

Go to Zeppelin in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

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Go to Earhart, Amelia (1898–1937) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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1939
1948

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1949
1950

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1959
1962

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1969
1999

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2000

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2003

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2005
2007

Go to Singapore in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.)

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2009

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