The governing fact is adhesion. Steel on steel produces very little grip, which is efficient on the level and useless on a slope - so the route must be flattened…
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Somebody came out to you and you never left the seat. Here are fourteen.
1. Staying in the Car
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The whole transaction happened through a wound-down window, with…
Usually the oldest ground in the village, and it keeps records. Here are seventeen.
1. The Ground Is Higher Than the Street
Centuries of burial add material rather than remove…
Almost all of them are descriptions, not decorations. Here are seventeen.
1. A Trade Name Means the Trade Was There
Streets named for tanners, bakers, coopers, dyers, weavers or smiths…
The second visit starts with knowledge the first one spent days acquiring, and using that properly is what makes it worth going. Here are ten things worth knowing.
1. You…
One rock type, unusually pure and unusually porous, produces a landscape unlike anything around it - dry on top, wet underneath and covered in a grassland that only exists because…