If you’re having a shitty day, just remember that you cannot fuck up as badly as the engineers in charge of the railway station in Alexandria (Egypt) who accidentally built it in Turkey, in a field with no railway line
If you’re having a shitty day, just remember that you cannot fuck up as badly as the engineers in charge of the railway station in Alexandria (Egypt) who accidentally built it in Turkey, in a field with no railway line
If you’re having a shitty day, just remember that you cannot fuck up as badly as the engineers in charge of the railway station in Alexandria (Egypt) who accidentally built it in Turkey, in a field with no railway line
In 1905, the Egyptian khedive Abbas Hilmi ordered two buildings from French architects: a railway station for Alexandria, and a plantation for a large farm in southern Turkey. The order... got mixed up so the railway station ended up in Dalaman
If you think that globalisation these days is fucked, let me tell you about 1905
Readers of this thread might also enjoy the letter meant for Kano, Nigeria which ended up in Carnot, Algeria in 1915

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