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The longest road in the world

he idea of building a communication link from one end of the Americas to the other was first mooted at an event called the First Congress of American States, held in 1889. The plan was to build a railway. The idea was not pursued, however. By the 1920s, the USA was filling with Model T Fords and a new idea,

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