@berkie1 My great grandfather moved from Hudson, New Hampshire to Beverly, Massachusetts in that era and he likely took electric streetcars most or all of the way.
@WWIIThePacific@USAMaritimeX All those bridges were completed while The Brooklyn Navy Yard was building ships and were built with explicit USN permission.
@3stddev@wideofthepost Serval times NYC has accidentally banned hostels through anti-SRO and anti-short-term-rental / Airbnb laws, and other zoning restrictions on hotels etc. It has happened more than once and people don’t open them. https://t.co/MVVKMDx35N
fun fact: duluth, minnesota is the world’s most inland location accessible to oceangoing ships at over 2300mi/3700km from the atlantic via the great lakes and st lawrence seaway. the ship in this photo is headed from lake superior all the way to the mediterranean!
@Jake___Barfield@typesfast@paulg@andreasklinger Pennsylvania Railroad produced a dividend for over 100 years from the 1840s to 1940s in a business that is highly labor intensive, capital intensive, and cyclical.
@jgebbia French speaking European settlement predates almost all the English-speaking emigration to British North America. How does this factor into your point?
@NavidHedayati@DalrympleWill@JMPSimor Were the Hapsburgs part of “The West”? The Ottoman Empire inherited the Byzantine rivalry with the Persians, were the Ottoman Sultans “the West”?
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@benbawan@jburnmurdoch The development of the steam engine and the textile mill and the steam boat… and also joint stock company and concept of insurance… but then the legal system and insurance policies also have kneecapped anglophone places that had previously lead… consider China 1700 vs 1900