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Stamford. / 41.046937°N 73.541493°W / 41.046937; -73.541493. Stamford station, officially known as the Stewart B. McKinney Transportation Center [5] or the Stamford Transportation Center, is a major railroad station in the city of Stamford, Connecticut, serving passengers traveling on Metro-North Railroad 's New Haven Line, and Amtrak ...
Normandy landings. / 49.34; -0.60. The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
34th Street–Penn Station is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 34th Street and Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It is served by the A and E trains at all times, and by the C train at all times except late nights. The station is adjacent to Pennsylvania Station, the ...
Pennsylvania Station (also known as New York Penn Station or simply Penn Station) is the main intercity railroad station in New York City and the busiest transportation facility in the Western Hemisphere, serving more than 600,000 passengers per weekday as of 2019. [ 5 ][ 6 ][ a ] The station is located beneath Madison Square Garden in the ...
Route 35 is a state highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey, primarily traveling through the easternmost parts of Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties. It runs 58.11 mi (93.52 km) from the entrance to Island Beach State Park in Berkeley Township, Ocean County to an intersection with Lincoln Highway /St. Georges Avenue ( Route 27) in Rahway ...
Newark Penn Station is an intermodal passenger station in Newark, New Jersey. [8] One of the New York metropolitan area 's major transportation hubs, Newark Penn Station is served by multiple rail and bus carriers, making it the seventh busiest rail station in the United States , and the fourth busiest in the New York City metropolitan area.
Gold Beach. / 49.34528°N 0.57167°W / 49.34528; -0.57167. Gold, commonly known as Gold Beach, was the code name for one of the five areas of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during the Second World War. Gold, the central of the five areas, was located between Port-en-Bessin on the ...
Normandy (/ ˈ n ɔːr m ə n d i /; French: Normandie [nɔʁmɑ̃di] ⓘ; Norman: Normaundie, Nouormandie [nɔʁ.mɛnde]; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) [2] is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.