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The arch of the Friedensbrücke, which was built in the same year, has the span of and crosses the valley of the Syrabach River.
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Its arch, which was constructed from over of stone blocks in just 18 days, is the second largest stone arch in the world, surpassed only by the Friedensbrücke ( Syratalviadukt ) in Plauen, and the largest railroad stone arch.
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It was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.
It encloses a mass of ruins conspicuous in which are a fine triumphal arch, the colonnades of two streets, a gymnasium, etc.
There is a smaller arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, which stands west of the Louvre.
In his 1810 book entitled The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Joseph Strutt describes the way pall mall was played in England in the early 17th century: " Pale-maille is a game wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins.
The wall behind the stone was a temporary addition to support the arch above it, which had been weakened after the damage in the 1808 fire ; the wall blocks the view of the rotunda, sits on top of the graves of four 12th century kings, and is no longer structurally necessary.
The two longitudinal arches serve as pillars for the transverse arch which run obliquely across the tarsometatarsal joints.
This was greater than the longest arch span which had been built at the time.
This has the effect of flattening the arch and the solution is to lay the bricks forming the arch at an angle to the abutments ( the piers on which the arches rest ).
This technique, which results in a spiral effect in the arch masonry, provides extra strength in the arch to compensate for the angled abutments.
The word monarch is derived from the Greek μονάρχης ( from μόνος, " one / singular ," and ἄρχων, " leader / ruler / chief ") through the Latin: monarcha ( mono: " one " + arch " chief ") which referred to a single, at least nominally, absolute ruler.
In 1872, an evaporator was developed that featured two pans and a metal arch or firebox, which greatly decreased boiling time.
It is hypothesized, however, that there were some elements of pre-Islamic architecture which were Islamicized into Andalusi and Maghribi architecture, for example, the distinctive horseshoe arch.
The spine that forms the divide is the highly eroded arch of an uplift from the sea bottom, in which peaks were formed by volcanic intrusions.
He mainly discusses the years in which Ancient Rome rose to superpower status from 220 BC to 167 BC, describing Rome's efforts in subduing its arch enemy, Carthage, and thereby becoming the dominant Mediterranean force.
Likewise as well within the Christian " Tomb of the Cocks " in Beit Jibrin, which was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 miles northwest of the city of Hebron and part of the Kingdom of Israel, " we find two spirited cocks painted in red in the spandrels with a cross just over the center of the arch ".
It gives rise to the left recurrent laryngeal nerve, which hooks around the aortic arch to the left of the ligamentum arteriosum and ascends between the trachea and esophagus.
Adjacent slits are separated by a cartilaginous gill arch from which projects a long sheet-like septum, partly supported by a further piece of cartilage called the gill ray.
Then comes a series of tombfronts which terminate in a semicircular arch, a feature derived from north Syria.
The posterior arch forms about two-fifths of the circumference of the ring: it ends behind in the posterior tubercle, which is the rudiment of a spinous process and gives origin to the Recti capitis posteriores minores and the ligamentum nuchae.
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Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.
Between the abutments on the Newbury shore and the south bank of Deer Island there was one span or arch measuring 160 feet ; ;
between the north shore of Deer Island and the Salisbury side there was an arch of 113 feet and a series of piers with a draw forty feet long.
It was the largest triumphal arch in existence until the construction of the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, in 1982.
In the prolongation of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, a new arch, the Grande Arche de la Défense, was built in 1982, completing the line of monuments that forms Paris's Axe historique.
Because of its distinctive shape, the arch was known as " the Chaps " and " the Schoolmarm's Bloomers " by local cowboys.
This arch played no part in the original designation of the area as a U. S. National Monument in 1929, and was not included within the original boundaries ; it was added when the monument was enlarged in 1938.
The original sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch.
A triumphal arch, the Arch of Titus, was erected at the south-east entrance to the Forum to commemorate the successful end of the war.
The Piazza ( first renamed Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele II, then Piazza della Repubblica, the present name ) was significantly widened and a large triumphal arch was constructed at the west end.
Eiffel's principal job was to draw up the arch girders of the Galerie des Machines.
Eiffel's proposal was for a bridge whose deck was supported by five iron piers, with the abutments of the pair on the river bank also bearing a central supporting arch.
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After the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the Arc de Triomphe de l ' Étoile, the Grande Arche is the third arch built on the same perspective.
The Romans built arch bridges and aqueducts that could stand in conditions that would damage or destroy earlier designs.
The earliest known arch bridges were built by the Greeks, and include the Arkadiko Bridge.
To prevent floods from damaging the strategically important border town Dara, an advanced arch dam was built.
These larger bridges were built with stone and had the arch as its basic structure ( see arch bridge ).
For more than a thousand years, it is the longest arch bridge in the world to have been built, in terms of both total and span length.
* The Trezzo sull ' Adda Bridge is completed, and becomes the longest arch bridge in the world to be built for four centuries
The noteworthy arch housing the relics of St. Augustine was built in 1362 by artists from Campione, and is decorated by some 150 statues and reliefs.
After the Six-Day War, an arch was built to mark the spot where the synagogue stood.
The segmental arch was first built by the Romans who realized that an arch in a bridge did not have to be a semicircle, such as in Alconétar Bridge or Ponte San Lorenzo.
The first known built horseshoe arches are known from Aksum ( modern day Ethiopia and Eritrea ) from around the 3rd – 4th century, around the same time as the earliest contemporary examples in Roman Syria, suggesting either an Aksumite or Syrian origin for the type of arch.
A special form of the arch is the triumphal arch, usually built to celebrate a victory in war.
Notable among these is the Casselman River Bridge near Grantsville, Maryland ; built in 1813-1814, it was the longest single-span stone arch bridge in the world at the time.
* The Porte du Peyrou, a triumphal arch built at the end of the 17th century, and the Place Royal du Peyrou built on the 17th century, are the highest point of the Ecusson.
Another theory is that the arches of the bridge were built over large stones in the river with each stone being one support of the arch.
Septimius Severus inaugurated his reign and dynasty with games to honour Liber / Shadrapa and Hercules / Melqart, the Romanised founding hero-deities of his native town, Lepcis Magna ( North Africa ); then he built them a massive temple and arch in Rome.
The church, built in simple style, has a granite doorway with sloping jambs and flat lintel and a granite chancel arch.
Many older bridges were built using an arch, for example the Ponte Coperto and the Ponte Vecchio.
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