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William H Aspinwall was an American merchant. He was born in 1807 and died in 1875. A merchant of New York, in 1850 he secured the contract for building the Panama Railroad, which was completed in 1854 and its eastern terminus named Aspinwall in honour of William H Aspinwall.
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Terminus was the Greek and Roman god of boundaries and frontiers. In Roman culture, when a boundary was fixed, an animal sacrifice was made, a trench dug, and the body and other offerings placed in the trench before a fire of pine branches was burnt in the trench and the stone emblem of Terminus erected upon the ashes.
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Alford is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was founded as the terminus for the Great North Scotland Railway.
Alford (recorded in the Domesday Book as Alforde) is a market town in Lincolnshire, England.
Alford (recorded in the Domesday Book as Aldedeford) is a small stone-built village in Somerset, England, noted for its isolated 15th-century church.
Alford is a town in Jackson County, Florida, USA.
Alford is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA.
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Moshi is a town in northern Tanzania, near Mount Kilimanjaro. It is the capital of Kilimanjaro region and the terminus of the northern railway from Dar es Salaam, and is the centre of a rich coffee-growing area.
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Suez is a seaport in Egypt on the Gulf of Suez at the southern terminus of the Suez Canal.
Suez is a township in Mercer County, Illinois, USA.
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In architecture the vagina is the shaft of a terminus, from which the bust of figure seems to issue or arise.
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Terminus a quo is Latin for The starting point
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Terminus ad quem is Latin for The goal; the end
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