FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
Route 66 was a major path of the migrants who went west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and supported the economies of the communities through which the road passed.
In 1933, a straighter cut-off route was completed from west of El Reno, Oklahoma directly to a point one mile south of Bridgeport, Oklahoma crossing over a 38-span steel pony truss bridge over the South Canadian River and bypassing both Calumet and Geary by several miles.
In Missouri, Routes 366, 266, and 66 are all original sections of the highway.
He traveled to countries torn apart by dictatorships and civil war, working for cooperation and stability, showing equal respect to peasants in Mozambique, teachers in East Timor and royalty in Cambodia—where he was the only UN official able to negotiate with Khmer Rouge leaders, managing to get refugees back to areas under their control.
The ENROUTE TO BAGHDAD filmmakers traveled to nine countries in seven months—including a brief stay in North Korea at the invitation of King Sihanouk of Cambodia—in order to document how successful Vieira de Mello was in working with the people whose lives he had the power to change.
ENROUTE TO BAGHDAD was honored with a silver medal from the United Nations Correspondents Association in 2004.
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