Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.

Although each variant of bridge has its own particular scheme for awarding and accumulating points, all are based upon whether or not the contract for each deal was made or defeated and by how many tricks.

Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).

Although the present situation has resulted in severe traffic problems on the bridge itself and in Menlo Park and East Palo Alto, Caltrans has been unable to upgrade the relevant portion of Highway 84 to freeway standards for several decades, due to opposition from the cities of Menlo Park, Atherton and Palo Alto.

Although Villaggio's movies tend to bridge trash comedy with a more elevated social satire ; this character had a great impact on Italian society, to such a degree that the adjective fantozziano entered the lexicon.

Although the bridge has created additional commerce, the Lao government does not yet permit a completely free flow of traffic across the span.

Although Till removes the planks of the bridge instead of sawing them there are some similarities to Till Eulenspiegel ( 32nd History ).

Although Washington had been considering retiring, both sides encouraged him to remain in office to bridge factional differences.

Although Roosevelt Island is located directly under the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, it is not directly accessible from the bridge itself.

Although inexperienced in sea battles, the Romans, led by consul Gaius Duilius Nepos, heavily defeat the Carthaginian fleet, mainly due to the innovative use of land tactics in naval warfare ( including the use of the grappling irons and the corvus boarding bridge ).

Although warned of the collapsed bridge, the train driver was unable to stop the train in time and six of the carriages fell into the river.

Although strong in compression, cast iron was known to be brittle in tension or bending, yet, on the day of the accident, the bridge deck was covered with track ballast to prevent the oak beams supporting the track from catching fire.

Although built as a mixed rail and road bridge, there is no current rail line operating over the bridge.

Although similar in size, the bridge towers are not identical in design, the Clifton tower having side cut-outs, the Leigh tower more pointed arches atop a red sandstone clad abutment.

Although similar in size, the bridge towers are not identical in design, the Clifton tower having side cut-outs, the Leigh tower more pointed arches.

Although flying under the bridge has been outlawed since 1911, in 1957 a Filton-based RAF Vampire jet from 501 Squadron flew at high speed under the deck before crashing in Leigh Woods, killing the pilot.

Although the parts were simple, they had to be precisely manufactured if they were fit each other correctly, so they were assembled into a test – bridge at the factory to make sure of this.

Although the old town bridge there restricts navigation to craft with an airdraft of less than, its quay beyond that abruptly changes the nature of the river from a gentle rural feature to a gateway to the North Sea.

Although numerous types of squeezes have been analyzed and catalogued in contract bridge, they were first discovered and described in whist.

Although prominent local citizens promoted a bridge across the Arkansas River southwest of Atkins, the Arkansas Highway Commission opted for the nearly completed Highway 7 bridge between Dardanelle and Russellville.

Although renovated and expanded in 1758, the toll house next to the bridge ( also called the bridge master's house ) was torn down in 1827 to be replaced by a new city hall, designed by the architect J. P. Orentzburg.

Although the line is abandoned, the tracks removed, and the depot grounds stand vacant, a portion of the route, including the turn-of-the-century plate girder bridge over Little Walnut Creek, is maintained by the village as a walking path.

Although many board games have a jargon all their own, there is a generalized terminology to describe concepts applicable to basic game mechanics and attributes common to nearly all board games.

Although the Hebrew Bible has many references to capital punishment, the Jewish sages used their authority to make it nearly impossible for a Jewish court to impose a death sentence.

Although the Encyclopédie was Diderot's monumental piece, he was the author of many other works that sowed nearly every field of intellectual interest with new and creative ideas.

" Although the term destroyer had been used interchangeably with the terms " TBD " and " torpedo boat destroyer " by navies since 1892, the term torpedo boat destroyer had been generally shortened to simply " destroyer " by nearly all navies by the First World War.

Although it varied in size and color and was at times cropped by the edges of the cover, or briefly rotated 4 degrees, it remained essentially unchanged for nearly three decades.

Although other countries have points extending north, virtually all of Finland is north of 60 degrees north latitude ; nearly a quarter of the land area and fully one-third of the latitudinal extent of the country lie north of the Arctic Circle.

Although the Romans defeated the Carthaginian fleet and were successful in rescuing its army in Africa, a storm destroyed nearly the entire Roman fleet on the trip home ; the number of casualties in the disaster may have exceeded 90, 000 men.

Although reconstruction has proceeded quickly with significant aid from the international community, tourism and agricultural activities remain weak and nearly offset the stimulus from the reconstruction boom.

Although estimates as to its age vary, they range from over a thousand to nearly two thousand years old.

Although " icing " increases alcohol content, most of the United States breweries simply add water back into their beer after the icing process to bring the alcohol content back down to nearly the same levels.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

Although nationalist movements throughout the colonial world led to the political independence of nearly all of the Asia's remaining colonies, decolonisation was intercepted by the Cold War ; and South East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Asia remained embedded in a world economic, financial, and military system in which the great powers compete to extend their influence.

Although Meteora was not nearly as successful as Hybrid Theory, it was the third best selling album in the United States during 2003.

Although all the spies agreed that the land's resources were spectacular, only two of the twelve spies ( Joshua and Caleb ) were willing to try to conquer it, and are nearly stoned for their unpopular opinion.

Although neurons are very diverse and there are exceptions to nearly every rule, it is convenient to begin with a schematic description of the structure and function of a " typical " neuron.

Although arable land accounts for only 1 % of Namibia, nearly half of the population is employed in agriculture.

Although a true oxymoron is " something that is surprisingly true, a paradox ," Garry Wills has argued that modern usage has brought a common misunderstanding that oxymoron is nearly synonymous with contradiction.

Although the Indo-Greeks lost part of the Gangetic plain, their kingdom lasted nearly two centuries.

Although nearly 40 percent of Panama is still wooded, deforestation is a continuing threat to the rain-drenched woodlands.

Although the Liberals had successfully led Paraguay's occupation of nearly all the disputed territory and had won the war when the last truce went into effect, they were finished politically.

Although nearly flat surfaces are not lacking in this subregion, the rolling terrain is extremely uneven.

Although the new licensing laws prevented new beer houses from being created, those already in existence were allowed to continue and many did not close until nearly the end of the 19th century.

Although nearly all of the ultraviolet spectrum of radiation is non-ionizing, at the same time ultraviolet radiation does far more damage to many molecules in biological systems than is accounted for by heating effects ( an example is sunburn ).

Although a Conan novel was nearly published into a book in 1934, his stories never appeared in book form during his lifetime.

Although the Baltic Shield is mostly geologically stable and hence resistant to the influences of other neighboring tectonic formations, the weight of nearly four kilometers of ice during the Ice Ages caused all of the Scandinavian terrain to sink.