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* 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
Suspension of driving license is also normal in such a case ( maximum 5 years ).
Suspension bridges follow a curve which is intermediate between a parabola and a catenary.
* January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.
* The Capilano Suspension Bridge ( the longest suspension foot-bridge in the world ) is opened.
* January 30, 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.
Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a " human interest and a semblance of truth " into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative.
Suspension of disbelief is sometimes said to be an essential component of live theater, where it was recognized by Shakespeare, who refers to it in the Prologue to Henry V:
Suspension of disbelief is also supposed to be essential for the enjoyment of many movies and TV shows involving complex stunts, special effects, and seemingly unrealistic plots, characterizations, etc.
Suspension of disbelief is also needed when a character is not supposed to age over the course of a series ( because of being a vampire or be eternal / immortal because of some quirk / trait / power of the character ) but the actor eventually does-as seen in Angel and Highlander.
The Wheeling Suspension Bridge across the Ohio River, opened in 1849, is the oldest vehicular suspension bridge in the United States still in use.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge which spans the Avon Gorge and links Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset, England.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge is well known as a suicide bridge and is fitted with plaques that advertise the telephone number of The Samaritans.
Suspension design in military vehicles is a major area of development ; the very early designs were often completely unsprung.
Downstream of central Bristol the river passes through the deep Avon Gorge, spanned by Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge, the river is tidal and is navigable by sea going vessels at high tide but drying to a steep sided muddy channel at low tide.
* Bristol: Brunel's The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a famous landmark, and the ship, the SS Great Britain is another of Brunel's famous constructions, which is now in dry dock in Bristol.
It is made up of bits of driftwood which he gathered from the banks of the River Avon below Leigh Woods, near the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol.
It is a Victorian walled zoo located between Clifton Down and Clifton College, near Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge ; it covers a small area by modern standards, but with a considerable number of species.
Suspension ( on chains ) is recorded in visual images and written accounts from the 14th century (' chars branlant ' or rocking carriages ), and was in widespread use by the 15th century.

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* 1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
Suspension of the writ in Canadian history occurred famously during the October Crisis, during which the War Measures Act was invoked by the Governor General of Canada on the constitutional advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had received a request from the Quebec Cabinet.
Although on the surface an entertaining escapist romance, alert contemporary readers would have quickly recognized the political subtext of Ivanhoe, which appeared immediately after the English Parliament, fearful of French-style revolution in the aftermath of Waterloo, had passed the Habeas Corpus Suspension acts of 1817 and 1818 and other extremely repressive measures and when traditional English Charter rights versus revolutionary human rights was a topic of discussion.
The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1 April 1979 from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, by members of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club.
At Wheeling, the National Road crossed the Ohio River on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, designed by Charles Ellet Jr. and completed in 1849, then the world's longest bridge span at from tower to tower.
< font size = 2 > The Colorado River ( Texas ) | Colorado River of Texas, from the Regency Suspension Bridge, on the border of Mills County, Texas | Mills and San Saba Counties </ font size = 2 >
On May 17, 2011 the DEA served Immediate Suspension Orders ( suspension of their license to practice medicine ) on 4 local doctors and pharmacy in Scioto County, including Dr. Margy Temponeras.
The passage of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act in March 1863 ended the controversy, at least temporarily, by authorizing the suspension of habeas corpus upon Congress's authority rather than on the president's authority.
Though President Lincoln suspended the writ nationwide on September 24, 1862, Congress ratified this action almost six months later, on March 3, 1863, with the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act.
Suspension was by unequal length control arms with coil springs at the front and the live axle rear was suspended on leaf springs.
John A. Roebling and His Suspension Bridge on the Ohio River.
* Essay, The Suspension of Time: Reflections on Simon Dinnerstein and The Fulbright Tryptich edited by Daniel Slager, Milkweed Editions, June 14, 2011.
File: Colorado River of Texas IMG 0784. JPG | Colorado River under the Regency Suspension Bridge on the border of Mills and San Saba counties.
Although Webb failed in an attempt at raising interest in funding the event, on 24 July 1883 he jumped into the river from a small boat located near the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge and began his swim.
Suspension reverts from pneumatic to torsion bar, with six forged steel-aluminium rubber-tyred road wheels on each side, with the tracks driven by rear sprockets.
The suspension, provided in the Copyright ( Suspension of Amendments ) Ordinance 2001, will expire on 31 July 2004.
In 1979 the New Zealand Chevette had a mechanical update unseen on the European models, when it gained Holden-developed Radial Tuned Suspension.
These banknotes were convertible into British legal tender on demand at the Reserve Bank and remained so until the 1938 Sterling Exchange Suspension Notice that suspended provisions of a 1936 amendment of the 1933 Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act.
* Electronic Air Suspension, the air suspension system installed on the P38A variant of Land Rover's Range Rover
Suspension on the 1965 models was dramatically redesigned.
Swing axle suspension characteristics:: Camber angle | camber change on bumps, Suspension ( vehicle )# Jacking forces | jacking on rebound

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The year 1879 found Sherman, now Secretary of the Treasury, in possession of sufficient specie to redeem notes as requested, but as this brought the value of the greenbacks into parity with gold for the first time since the Specie Suspension of December 1861, the public voluntarily accepted the greenbacks as part of the circulating medium.
In 1900, there were two ferry boats working on the River Severn in the Quarry, with the other operating across the river where Porthill Suspension Bridge has been sited since the 1920s.
Where it passes through Bristol the river was prone to flooding, but the Northern Stormwater Interceptor, running from Eastville Sluices to the River Avon downstream of Clifton Suspension Bridge, has since been constructed to control this.
What started out as a Cattle Bridge had become a vehicular bridge, and the state historical committee decided that it was time to be retired, with larger and arguably safer bridges being built since the inception of the Waco Suspension Bridge.
, a Suspension of Operations Agreement ( SoO ) between the Government and ANVC has been in force since 23 July 2004.

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