In 1917 the station ceased to be used as a watering station for trains travelling up the range, with watering stations being provided elsewhere on the line ( although a 40, 000 litre emergency water tank was constructed at the station in 1921 for emergency purposes ).
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It is a New York-sized event-- 2, 000 medical volunteers and 350 volunteer translators, 132, 000 safety pins to attach runners'numbers to their shirts, 3 tons of bagels and 3 tons of pasta for carbohydrates, and 1.8 million paper cups for the official watering stations along the way.
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The road was provided with watering stations ( Greek " hydreumata ", see Hadhramaut ); the wells and halting places of the caravans are enumerated by Pliny ( vi . 23 . s . 26 ), and in the Itineraries ( Antonin . p . 172, f . ).
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It is a New York-sized event-- 2, 000 medical volunteers and 350 volunteer translators, 132, 000 safety pins to attach runners'numbers to their shirts, 3 tons of bagels and 3 tons of pasta for carbohydrates, and 1 . 8 million paper cups for the official watering stations along the way.
25.
Ocelis belonged to the South Arabian kingdom of Saba-Himyar and is known as a stop on the maritime route from Egypt to India in the 1st centuries CE . In the 1st century, Periplus Maris Erythraei describes it as " not so much a port of trade as harbour, watering station, and the first place to put in for those sailing on ".
26.
Ocelis belonged to the South Arabian kingdom of Saba-Himyar and is known as a stop on the maritime route from Egypt to India in the first centuries CE . In the 1st century Periplus Maris Erythraei ( 25 ) it is described as " not so much a port of trade as harbour, watering station, and the first place to put in for those sailing on ".
