Yes America did if you do your research
Because the French nobility, king Louis XVI and the clergy had one major thing in common. All of them enjoyed and lived a lavish lifestyle full of riches, good food, and different luxuries that the average citizen in France could not even imagine perhaps. This is also the reason why they were criticized most.
The Egyptians used a weird method to reduce friction by pouring water onto the sand, causing the sand to clump together and make it easier to pull along due to the reason that each individual piece of sand doesn't hold it back. They called this weird technique capillary bridges.

Pushpalal (Mid-Hill) Highway (H18) (Nepali: पुष्पलाल (मध्य-पहाडी) लोकमार्ग (रा.१८)) is an ongoing road project in Nepal, which is thought to be 1,776 kilometres (1,104 mi) long. After completion, it will be the longest national highway of Nepal. Nepal has three geographical regions from east to west, plain land or Terai in south, higher mountains or Himalayas in north and hills in middle region. The highway runs through the mid-hills region only. It starts from easternmost hill at Chiyabhanjyang of Panchthar District (Province No. 1) and ends at westernmost hill at Jhulaghat of Baitadi District in far west (Sudurpashchim Pradesh)
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