The bridge itself rises up from the river, light-flared and enormous, like the outdoor set for an epic opera.

We would all meet at ten o'clock at the Kehl bridge, five miles from Strasbourg, and march triumphantly across into Germany.

Sighting a line from the bridge to a small field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that evening on the stateless `` line '', digging a small trench around it as best I could with a toy spade donated by a neighborhood child.

On the other side of the Golden Horn I rode through Eminonu Square, with Yeni Cami, or the New Mosque, which dates from the Seventeenth Century, just across from the entrance to the bridge.

General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.

Again Reverend Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw -- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.

It dawns on you that instead of a lump to fill the seat across the bridge table from you, he was a man, and that because Gratt Shafer was making you miserable, you were passing it down to him, to Gratt Shafer's substitute, that other guy.

* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

Alexander mustered his forces, bringing legions from the eastern provinces, and crossed the Rhine into Germany on a pontoon bridge.

In 1976 divers in the Aar found part of a seven-meter wide wooden bridge from the late Roman times.

The wooden bridge, dating from the Middle Ages, across the Aar was destroyed by floods three times in thirty years, and was replaced with a steel suspension bridge in 1851.

The station takes its name from the nearby bridge, Manseibashi.

Admiralty Arch is linked to the Old Admiralty Building by a bridge and is part of the ceremonial route from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace.

The Agra canal originates from Okhla barrage, downstream of Nizamuddin bridge.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.

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.

Most cantilever bridges use a pair of continuous spans that extend from opposite sides of the supporting piers to meet at the center of the obstacle the bridge crosses.

... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.

The region of Brussels only managed 14 km of waterways from the Anderlecht lock to the Vilvoorde bridge.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

Engineers could use such a material — if it had a long enough rate of decay — for parachute lines, suspension bridge cables, artificial ligaments for medicine, and other purposes.

It is named because of the construction of the bridge over the Cacapon River at that place, the name of the river being derived from the Shawnee, " Cape-cape-de-hon ", meaning " river of medicine water.

Besides farming and business, the Agikuyu were involved in small scale industries with professions such as bridge building, string making, Wire drawing, Iron Chain making and medicine.

The bridge is named after " John Ross " ( real name, Charles Rawden Maclean ), who at the age of 15 walked from Port Natal to Lourenço Marques ( now Maputo ) and back to procure medicine.

* Serve as a bridge to nations through medicine.

The institute of Health Policy and Management ( iBMG ) forms a bridge between medicine and the health sciences on the one hand and social sciences on the other.

He said that Dianetics " forms a bridge between " cybernetics and General Semantics ( a set of ideas about education originated by Alfred Korzybski, which received much attention in the science fiction world in the 1940s ) — a claim denied by scholars of General Semantics, including S. I. Hayakawa, who expressed strong criticism of Dianetics as early as 1951.

Oakerson states, " The purpose of education is to build a bridge between generations, so as to preserve our accomplishments.

Since the Dutch educational system does not have middle schools or junior high schools, the first year of all levels in Dutch high schools is referred to as the brugklas ( literally, bridge class ), as it connects the elementary school system to the secondary education system.

" Puente " means " bridge " in Spanish, which symbolizes the bridge the program builds for the students to reach higher education.

:* For our desire to bridge the gulf between the church community and the gay community with love and through dialogue, prayer, service, and education.

In order that an HBO bachelor's graduate be admitted to WO Master ( which may grant titles as MA, MSc and LLM, he / she may have to pass one year of pre-master's education, meant to bridge the gap between his / her HBO study and WO study.

The Financial Aid Office offers helpful resources on how to bridge the gap between the cost of education and a family ’ s ability to pay.

Academic Bridging is designed for individuals who have been away from formal education for some time and do not meet the University ’ s established requirements for direct entry admission ; each course is intended to bridge the gap between a student ’ s prior education and the requirements of first year university courses in Humanities and Social Sciences.

Up with People ( UWP ) is a global education organization whose mission is to bridge cultural barriers and create global understanding through service and music.

Up with People continues to be a global education and arts organization whose goal is to bridge cultural barriers and create global understanding through service and music.

Even with this bridge between school and home, many people wonder what happens to Reggio children when they make the transition from this style of education to a non Reggio Emilia school.

The Advantage Foundation, a not-for-profit education organization in Western Australia, helps bridge the gap between university and employment via the Australian Business Icon program.

In 1980, the Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies, offering graduate-level teacher education programs, was founded on Barrie School ’ s Layhill Road campus to provide a bridge between the traditional and Montessori schools of education.

JDC supports local Jewish education and training efforts and puts special emphasis on international programs that bridge isolated Jewish populations with Jews all over the world.

* The bridging between international training and a country's requisites through a bridge program ( higher education )

The Creative Partnerships scheme has been cut by the government, but from 2012 / 13 the Festival will receive a total of £ 1. 35 million annually from Arts Council England to enable it to become a bridge organisation for developing arts opportunities for children and young people, acting as a bridge between the arts and education sectors.

Rapid change took place for the past five decades, with the building of a bridge across the ponds in the 1950s, a venue for education introduced in the form of a village community centre in 1952, piped water and electricity in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, most of the villagers had already started to move out as the land was acquired by the government for massive redevelopment.

* 2011-Opening of refurbished George Stephenson Workshop, which now contains an education suite on the ground floor and a brand new exhibition on the upper floor which connects over a bridge to the Workshop Gallery

Students utilize private loans to bridge the gap between amounts that can be borrowed through federal programs and the remaining costs of education.

Gerhard Vollmer is often thought of as a bridge but, despite his education and residence in Germany, he largely works in the Anglo-American tradition, particularly pragmatism, and is famous for his development of Lorenz's and Quine's idea of evolutionary epistemology.

Her work is supported by the Chantek Foundation, whose mission is to develop greater scientific understanding of orangutans, to support cultural and language research with orangutans, to promote orangutan conservation and establish culture-based great ape sanctuaries, and to foster education programs that will facilitate understanding of great apes as persons, thereby building a bridge between humans and great apes.