Mediterranean Cuisine
Trains
The Sierras
San Francisco, The Streets - Then and Now
Route 66
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This cuisine, named after the region's empire dissolved in 1923, is contemporarily continued in Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, and parts of the Caucuses and Middle East.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
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This country boasts the world's largest bridge for trains and overall, crossing the Yangtze river delta and spanning over 100 miles. The same train route in this country also boasts the world's second longest bridge, just over 70 miles long.
What is China?
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The picture below was taken in the early 1900s and depicts this valley with a flowing Tuolumne River prior to the 1923 dam construction.
What is Hetch Hetchy?
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Looking out from the Transamerica building, at the intersection of Washington, Montgomery, and this street.
What is Columbus?
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Route 66 originally ran from this city to Santa Monica, California, covering just shy of 2,500 total miles.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
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Many writers identify the olive, wheat, and this fruit as the three core elements of Mediterranean Cuisine, which together yield olive oil, bread, pasta, and wine.
What is the grape?
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The world speed record for a commercial train on steel wheels was set in this European country at 357.2 mph.
What is France?
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Just shy of 10,000 feet, this pass on Highway 120 is the highest road pass in California.
What is Tioga Pass?
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This street.
What is Grant St?
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In Arizona and New Mexico in particular, the traditional Route 66 parallels this contemporary Interstate.
What is I-40?
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Though this dish's name has Italian origins, it's distinctive to the Mediterranean cuisine of Greece.
What is pastitsio?
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This Asian city boasts the busiest train station by passenger throughput globally, averaging a daily total of 3.5 million passengers.
What is Tokyo, Japan?
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This 14,000+ Sierra Peak marks the Southern Terminus of the John Muir Trail.
What is Mt Whitney?
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The Flood building, photographed below, was completed in 1904 and remains on the corner of Powell and this street, also where the picture was shot.
What is Market St?
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This desert town was the original intersection between routes 66 and 91 before they continued together Westward towards Los Angeles, and now boasts the convergence of Interstates 15 and 40.
What is Barstow?
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Provencal cuisine, primarily in Marseille, boasts this seafood-based meal in which, traditionally, the broth is served over bread and the garlic-based sauce, rouille, separate from the fish.
What is bouillabaisse?
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This American rail project was completed in May 1869 at the Golden Spike event in Promontory Summit, Utah.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
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This highway, named after a pivotal California year, winds through the state's richly historical Gold Country.
What is Highway 49?
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Looking down this street, whose name aligns with a Californian city, near the cross-street of Powell, after the 1906 earthquake and today. This street is south of Broadway but North of California.
What is Sacramento?
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The Oatman Highway, part of the original route 66 and known for its dangerous hairpin corners, ran from Kingman through the black mountains in this state but was largely abandoned after construction of a new route from Kingman to Needles in 1953.
What is Arizona?
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This meal is common within a Maghrebi Mediterranean cuisine, which refers to the food of contemporary Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia.
What is couscous?
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This Amtrak route.
What is the Coast Starlight?
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This peak, over 13,000 ft and with a name aligning with a fork of the Tuolumne River, is the highest in Yosemite National Park.
What is Mt Lyell?
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Old St. Mary's Cathedral, photographed below, is located on this street.
What is California St?
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Galena, Riverton, and Baxter Springs are the only 3 towns in this state Route 66 passed through, the third state heading West, on its short 13.2 mile run through it. This state boasts the shortest length of the eight states that hosted the route.
What is Kansas?