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Travel Has Changed PRO
Contributed by Harold White on Jan 5, 2001 (message contributor)
Travel has changed:
More than two hundred years ago George Washington traveled from Virginia to Washington D.C. by horseback. It could take him ten days traveling at a speed of twenty five miles per day.
Today astronauts can enter a space shuttle and travel at twenty five thousand miles per hour. At that speed you could fly from New York City to San Francisco in eight minutes.
With all these advances in air travel it is possible to have breakfast in New York, lunch in Dallas, and dinner in Los Angeles -- and have your luggage wind up in Mexico.
One man put it this way:
"My great-grandfather rode a...
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What God Says PRO
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Howard Hendricks Tells Of A Mentor Who Changed ... PRO
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Rick Warren Writes In "The Purpose Driven Life," ... PRO
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