B – Clive Lamming
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About
L’histoire des chemins de fer
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Puis-je me présenter ? […]
Clive Lamming – Trainconsultant – Les écartements des voies dans le monde: pourquoi cette incroyable diversité ?
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Même si le chemin de fer n’a pas connu, réellement, de guerres internes de normes comme il y a en a eu dans d’autres domaines plus récents avec volonté de monopole et d’élimination de systèmes considérés comme adverses, il n’a pas échappé à des choix cruciaux terminant des luttes et des rivalités entre systèmes.
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Clive Lamming – Trainconsultant – The 37 railway gauges in the world in 1925
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Differences between railway gauges has been the worst of all catastrophes that happened to railways. At the beginning each country, and even each line between two towns, was decided with no concertation with other towns or countries, people commonly thinking that railways would never develop enough for reaching faraway distances and faraway continents. When, near the end of 19th century, most of the industrialized countries had standardised their railway gauges to the famous 1435 mm (4′ 8″ 1/2) gauge said to be «standard gauge». […]
Rc – Gerald Durrell – Two in the Bush – – Siamang
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When Jim eventually returned with the canoe, we made our way two or three miles upstream and then landed to reconnoitre the forest to see it if would be suitable for the shots we had in mind. We had hardly gone more than a couple of hundred yards through the trees when to our right, on the crest of a hill, there broke out a cacophony of wild cries. Although basically similar to the gibbon’s call, they were much louder and deeper and each cry ended in an odd, reverberating sound like somebody tapping on a drum with their fingertips.
‘Siamang!’ said the boatman, and Chris’s eyes gleamed fanatically. […]
Michael Mullan – Professor Ramon Margalef López, Catalan pioneer of scientific ecology
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Ecology is recognised today as
one of the main scientific disciplines at humanity’s disposal
in confronting the challenges of the future.
This is due in no small measure to six decades of work by
Ramon Margalef,
the Catalan scientist who has died aged 85,
and whose name is invoked whenever
someone measuring biodiversity within an ecosystem
applies one of their key tools:
the Margalef Index. […]
Michael Mullan – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, creator of Spain’s most famous fictional detective
The Guardian, Tuesday October 21, 2003
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Novelist Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, who has died at the age of 64, was the creator of Spain’s most famous fictional detective, José «Pepe» Carvalho.
Since his debut in I Killed Kennedy (1972), Carvalho’s adventures have appeared in 22 novels in 24 languages.
The writer was returning from a trip to Australia to polish the fine details of the last Carvalho novel, Millennium, when he died of a heart attack at Bangkok airport.
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Tf -es- Mariano Nieto Viejobueno – Aristogeronte – El ancho de vía en los ferrocarriles españoles
Publicado originalmente en Carrollia, número 77
En el número 72, de marzo de 2002, de la revista Carrollia se publica un divertido artículo en el que se muestra la estrecha relación que existe entre el ancho de vía de los ferrocarriles norteamericanos: 4 pies […]
B – Michael Mullan
http://michaelmullan.blogspot.com.es
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Obituaries in English, with translations by Juan Manuel Grijalvo
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Michael Mullan – Obituaries – Obituarios
con traducciones castellanas de Juan Manuel Grijalvo
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(( traducciones catalanas pendientes ))