![]() ![]() ![]() It enables you to play deals at your own pace, whenever you want, and rank yourself against hundreds of other players (as well as your friends) who have played the same deals as you under the same conditions (indeed, you play with 3 computers at the table and these are the same for all players). He was promptly arrested.FunBridge is a bridge game. Just as the ribbon was about to be cut on the Sydney harbour bridge, a man in military uniform rode up on a horse, slashing the ribbon with his sword and opening it in the name of the people of New South Wales before the official ceremony began. A Dutch explosive fire ship containing 4 tons of explosive rammed a fortified Spanish bridge, killing 800 Spaniards, causing a small tsunami, and vibrating windows 22 miles away. – SourceĢ4. One of the earliest weapons of mass destruction was used during the Siege of Antwerp in 1585. In 1996, Woody Harrelson was arrested for climbing the Golden Gate Bridge to hang a banner protesting the destruction of the Redwood forest. Germany bases sea level on the North Sea, and Switzerland by the Mediterranean someone messed up the correction, doubling it instead of cancelling it out. Engineers building a bridge between Germany and Switzerland found that when the two halves met their elevations differed by 54 cm. – SourceĢ1-25 Bridge Facts Image credit: en.Ģ1. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, the longest continuous bridge passing over water, is so long that for 8 of its 24 miles, you can’t see land in any direction. ![]() The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is a bridge whose support towers are so tall and far apart that, due to the curvature of the earth, are almost two inches farther apart at the top than the bottom. Enraged, King Xerxes threw chains in the sea, whipped the sea 300 times and burned it with red-hot irons as his men shouted at the water. In 480 BC, King Xerxes I of Persia built bridges to invade Greece. These Root Bridges takes at least 15 years to build, but is automatically strengthened over time and can last centuries. Bridges can be made from the roots of living trees. Soldiers are required to “route step” (or walk out of step) when crossing bridges because, in 1831, the rhythmic march of British soldiers broke a bridge, throwing soldiers off of the bridge. It was paid for, designed and built by Taiwan only for Costa Rica to cut off ties with Taiwan in favor of China. – Sourceġ6-20 Bridge Facts Image credit: en.ġ6. A bridge built in 2003 in Northern Costa Rica is colloquially known as “Backstab Bridge”. It is in memory of a bridge that collapsed twice due to incorrect calculations involving iron. – Sourceġ0. Engineers in Canada receive an Iron Ring to remind them to have humility. The largest natural bridge on Earth was virtually unknown to the rest of the world, until it was observed on Google Earth. They had to be careful not feature one country over the others, though, but the Netherlands then built the bridges in real life anyway. The Euro currency was designed featuring imagery of fictitious bridges to represent architectural styles throughout time in Europe. The lead engineer held a kite-flying contest and eventually paid a local boy $5 for securing the first line over the river. In 1848, to begin construction on the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, engineers needed to secure a line across the 800-foot chasm. Said one survivor: “I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable except for having just jumped.” – SourceĦ-10 Bridge Facts Image credit: en.Ħ. The Øresund Bridge, connecting Sweden with Denmark, ends overwater and continues underwater. People who survived suicide attempts by jumping off the Golden Gate bridge often regret their decision in midair, if not before. Suicides increased sixfold the following year. It was decorated with positive affirmations and even sympathetic sculptures. In an effort to reduce the high number of suicides on South Korea’s Mapo Bridge, it was unofficially renamed the Bridge of Life. He proved himself correct by falling 135 feet safely through the air, only dying when he hit the water. The first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge was a professional high diver who “wanted to demonstrate that people did not die by simply falling through the air”. It gets between 1,200 to 1,400 calls every year. The five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge has a program that sends a crew member to drive people across if they’re too afraid to drive themselves. Over the four years of its construction, the net saved 19 men, who named themselves the “Halfway to Hell Club.” – SourceĢ. ![]() When building the Golden Gate Bridge, the lead structural engineer insisted on the installation of a safety net even though its $130,000 cost was deemed exorbitant. ![]()
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