George Mortimer Pullman was an American inventor. He was born in 1831 at Chautauqua County, New York and died in 1897. He began in business as a cabinet maker before becoming a building contractor. In 1859 he began designs for a new type of railwaycoach, and in 1863 built the first Pullman sleeping-car. He carried out further improvements in railway carriages, and in 1887 invented the corridor train and introduced dining cars. He made a large fortune from his inventions and founded the model town of Pullman near Chicago which was later incorporated within Chicago. Research George Pullman
The Kirghiz are a pastoral people numbering approximately 1.5 million. They inhabit the central Asian region bounded by the Hindu Kush, the Himalayas, and the TianShanmountains. The Kirghiz are Sunni Muslims, and their Turkic language belongs to the Altaic family. The Kirghiz live in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China (Xinjiang), and Afghanistan (Wakhan corridor). The highest political authority is traditionally entitled khan. During the winter the Kirghiz live in individual family yurts. In summer they come together in larger settlements of up to 20 yurts. They herdsheep, goats, and yaks, and use Bactrian camels for transporting their possessions. Research Kirghiz
In fortifications, the covered way was a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp covered by an embankment whose slope formed the glacis. It gave the garrison an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. Research Covered Way
Shock Corridor is a drama starring Peter Breck and Constance Towers in a story about a crusading journalist who goes undercover in a mental asylum to try to solve the murder of a patient. Shock Corridor was directed by Samuel Fuller in 1963. Research Shock Corridor
In architecture, gallaery is a long, narrow room, the length of which is at least three times its width, often built to receive a collection of pictures. The term gallery is also sometimes applied to what is more properly termed a corridor, likewise to a platform projecting from the walls of a building supported by piers, pillars, brackets, or consoles, and in churches, theatres, and similar buildings, to the upper floors going round the building next the wall. Research Gallery
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