Cape to Cairo Railway
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The Cape to Cairo Railway is an unfinished project to create a railway line from southern to northern Africa. It would have been the largest and most important railway on the continent. It was planned
Boarding Cape to Cairo Railway in the Belgian Congo, c. 1900–1915
Crossing at Victoria Falls
The Rhodes Colossus
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The Rhodes Colossus is an editorial cartoon illustrated by the English cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne & Mads and published by Punch magazine in 1892. It depicts the English business magnate Cecil
Cape to Cairo Railway
…Service Type Heavy rail Technical Line length 10,489 km (6,518 mi) Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) Cape gauge The Rhodes Colossus: Caricature of Cecil John Rhodes, after he announced plans for a telegraph line and railway from Cape Town to Cairo. Under British control or influence…
The Colossus of Rhodes, in the 1572 Octo Mundi Miracula, the earliest known representation of the Colossus in modern times.