The Skinny on Compression Shorts. by Berkeley Wellness | January 01, 2013. Print. Browse through a sporting-goods store or website, or simply look around a gym or health club, and youâre likely to see the thick, stretchy shorts and tights (and sometimes tops) known as compression garments.
The transcontinental railroad was also called the Pacific Railroad and the Overland Route. The total length of the First Transcontinental Railroad was 1,776 miles. The Central Pacific Railroad was controlled by four men called the Big Four.
He was one of 1,000 men who worked for three years to manually drill a hole through a mountain on the C&O railroad line. Hundreds of those men died, and John Henry was only one among them. But, probably due to his size and strength-and, likely, the presence he had with the other men-the legend of his hard hammering spread from work camp to work camp.