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ABOUT THIS SAUDI ARABIA (FAIRYTALE VILLAGE)
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Rijal Almaa:
better known as the Gingerbread Village of Saudi Arabia 😍 I venture out
to the mountains of the Aseer region with a couple of friends and drive down
some crazy mountain roads in order to reach this super charming spot. It's
straight out of a fairytale!
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as per the disclaimer at the end of the video, my trip to KSA was entirely
independent and self-funded.
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The
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unprecedented scale. This is the story of the first half of those wars, when
Napoleon Bonaparte, self-crowned Emperor of the French, ruled supreme on the
battlefield and international stage - the greatest man of his age. But in the
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country’s two largest cities (in the 1960's), Tokyo and Osaka. Travelling at
speeds in excess of 120 mph (200 km/h), the new specially designed Shinkansen
trains had the highest service speeds in the world.
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construction, the cost of building the Shinkansen had ballooned, nearly
doubling over the original estimate to nearly ¥400 Billion. Vocal critics
within Japan dismissed the Shinkansen project as destined for failure. Only a
year before the new line opened, the director-general of the Japanese National
Railways Construction Department described it as the “height of madness”. In
particular, he criticized the decision to use a wider gauge track (standard
gauge), which would make the Shinkansen incompatible with the rest of Japan’s
narrow gauge network.
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1960’s was the age of the jet airliner and automobile. Many countries in the
west were focusing on infrastructure projects to accommodate the enormous
growth of both these forms of transportation. The United States in particular,
was pouring billions of dollars into building new interstate highways and
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slow and inconvenient to compete with automobiles and aircraft. Many predicted
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westward. Over the course of the next half century, the network would be
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Fermilab
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