Roads in Allegany County, Maryland: U.s. Route 40 Alternate (Keysers Ridge – Cumberland, Maryland), Maryland Route 144, Maryland Route 135

Roads in Allegany County, Maryland: U.s. Route 40 Alternate (Keysers Ridge - Cumberland, Maryland), Maryland Route 144, Maryland Route 135





Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: U.s. Route 40 Alternate (Keysers Ridge - Cumberland, Maryland), Maryland Route 144, Maryland Route 135, U.s. Route 40 in Maryland, Maryland Route 36, Maryland Route 51, Maryland Route 53, Maryland Route 49, Maryland Route 35, Maryland Route 55, Maryland Route 956, Maryland Route 61, Maryland Route 736, Maryland Route 47, Maryland Route 658, Maryland Route 936, Maryland Route 638, Maryland Route 657. Excerpt: Maryland Route 135 (MD 135) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland . Known for most of its length as Maryland Highway, the state highway runs 29.00 mi (46.67 km) from U.S. Route 220 (US 220) in Oakland in Garrett County east to US 220 in McCoole in Allegany County . MD 135 is the main link between the towns of Oakland, Mountain Lake Park , Loch Lynn Heights , and Deer Park on the Appalachian Plateau and the communities of Bloomington , Luke , Westernport , and McCoole in the upper valley of the Potomac River . These groups of towns are separated by Backbone Mountain . MD 135 was originally built in the early 1930s as a link between McCoole and Westernport. In the late 1930s, the state highway was extended west to Bloomington. In addition, a separate segment of MD 135 was completed around Swanton in the mid 1930s. These separate segments were unified in the early 1950s when the highway over Backbone Mountain was completed. In the late 1950s, MD 135 was extended west over a portion of MD 38 and all of MD 41 to Oakland, and was mostly rebuilt over its entire length, bypassing Bloomington, Swanton, Deer Park, and Mountain Lake Park. MD 135 remains notorious for the eastbound descent from Backbone Mountain, which has claimed many lives. The Maryland State Highway Administration has instituted many measures to get trucks down the mountain safely and to avoid the downgra...









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Sidewise Award Winners: Sidewise Award for Alternate History, the Yiddish Policemen's Union, Lord Darcy, How Few Remain, Collaborator





Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sidewise Award for Alternate History, the Yiddish Policemen's Union, Lord Darcy, How Few Remain, Collaborator, for Want of a Nail, Making History, the Plot Against America, Resurrection Day, Voyage, Ruled Britannia, the Family Trade, the Hidden Family, Ministry of Space, the Children's War, the Clan Corporate. Excerpt: item Collaborator item Collaborator is an alternate history novel by Murray Davies , published as a hardcover on 19 September, 2003 and released in paperback in the United Kingdom and the United States in September 2004 . The novel is set in a Nazi-occupied Great Britain in 1940 and 1941. It chronicles life during this period primarily through the experiences of Nick Penny, the collaborator of the novel's title. Background The novel is premised on the successful German invasion of Britain in September 1940. The reason for this success is never clearly explained, but a major factor appears to have been the transfer of the French navy to the Germans after the fall of France. Battles were fought on British soil in London and Ashford, and the Irish Free State is also occupied. In the end the British Royal Family and government flee to Canada, where Winston Churchill leads a government in exile. In London, Samuel Hoare leads a collaborating government, while the Duke of Windsor returns to become regent . The Germans are attempting to charm the British people into submission. Organisations sprout up promoting Anglo-German friendship. However there is a darker side to the occupation a hundred people have been killed in Liverpool and Glasgow . Jewish people are beginning to be persecuted, whilst a resistance movement is steadily growing. Plot summary The novel begins in December 1940 with the return of Sergeant Nick Penny to his home in an unnamed West Country port town....









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