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the only line humanity draws on the planet that everyone agrees to follow
means A prepared track or way along which people, animals, and vehicles travel between places.
from From Old English 'rad,' meaning a riding or a journey on horseback — the same root that gives us 'ride' and 'raid' (originally just a 'ride' that happened to be hostile). For centuries a 'road' was the act of traveling, not the strip of ground itself; only later did the word settle onto the path beneath the hooves. So a road still carries the ghost of motion in its name.
- oldest paved
- Egypt's basalt road predates the pyramids
- all roads
- Rome built 250,000 miles of them
- total length
- Earth has roughly 40 million miles of road
- right or left
- about a third of countries drive left
- first speeding ticket
- issued in 1896 for going 8 mph
route 66 — historic us highway from chicago to los angeles, established 1926
appian way — ancient roman road built 312 bc, still partially intact near rome
silk road — trade network connecting china to mediterranean across central asia, 2nd century bc onwards
pan-american highway — longest road system in world, spans from alaska to argentina