There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

He was closely followed by the Ohio and Indiana troops -- thus the old bridge has another distinction ; ;

The bridge has survived the natural hazards of the elements, war, fire, and floods, as well as injuries incident to heavy traffic, for more than a hundred years.

This covered, wooden bridge is so closely identified with the first action in the early morning of June 3, 1861, and with subsequent troop movements of both armies in the Philippi area that it has become a part and parcel of the war story.

Recently Croatia has opted to build a bridge to the Pelješac peninsula to connect the Croatian mainland with the exclave but Bosnia and Herzegovina has protested that it will close their way to international waters ( although Croatian territory and territorial waters surround Bosnian-Herzegovinan ones completely ) and has suggested that the bridge must be higher than 55 meters for free passage of all types of ships.

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.

The most common game variants of contract bridge are rubber bridge and duplicate bridge ; each has many further variants.

Recently Croatia has opted to build a bridge to the Pelješac peninsula to connect the Croatian mainland with the exclave but Bosnia and Herzegovina has protested that it will close their way to international waters ( although Croatian territory and territorial waters surround Bosnian-Herzegovinan ones completely ) and has suggested that the bridge must be higher than 55 meters for free passage of all types of ships.

The bridge, when laid, has an overall length of 20 meters.

The bridge has a maximum capacity of 50, 000 kg, is 3. 3 meters wide, and can span a gap of 18 m. By itself, the bridge weighs 6400 kg.

A suspension bridge project has been planned, connecting Saricay ( a district of Çanakkale ) on the Asian side to Kilitbahir on the European side.

After three nights, the soul of the wicked is taken by the demon Vizaresa ( Vīzarəša ), to Chinvat bridge, and is made to go to darkness ( hell ).

After three days, the soul crosses Chinvat bridge which is the Final Judgment of the soul.

Characteristically, all of Alfred's innovations were firmly rooted in traditional West Saxon practice, drawing as they did upon the three so-called ‘ common burdens ' of bridge work, fortress repair and service on the king's campaigns that all holders of bookland and royal loanland owed the Crown.

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.

Close to the railway bridge, three lanes continue eastwards, presumably once the route of the original High Street before the arrival of the railway.

Motorists must traverse one of three at-grade routes to connect from the Bayshore Freeway to the bridge.

In Hungary a three stringed viola variant with a flat bridge, called the Bracsa makes up part of a tradition rhythm section in Hungarian folk music.

The flat bridge allows for three string chords to be played.

* Michigan State Capitol " Middle Village / Town ", where downtown Lansing now stands, was the last of the three villages to develop in 1848 with the completion of the Michigan Avenue bridge across the Grand River and the completion of the temporary capitol building which sat where Cooley Law School stands today on Capitol Avenue in between Allegan and Washtenaw Streets, and finally the relocation of the post office to the village in 1851.

Other important advances included changes to the way the piano was strung, such as the use of a " choir " of three strings rather than two for all but the lowest notes, and the implementation of an over-strung scale in which the strings are placed in two separate planes, each with its own bridge height.

Their next collaboration involved experiments with mounting three conical-shaped aluminum resonators into the body of the guitar beneath the bridge.

Many Rickenbackers — both guitars and basses — are equipped to be compatible with a " Rick-O-Sound " unit via an extra " stereo " output socket that allows the two pickups ( or neck and middle pickup combined / bridge pickup, in the case of three pickup instruments ) to be connected to different effects units or amplifiers.

By using a Wheatstone bridge, he observed this action at a distance of 20 yards, although the machine producing the sparks was working in a room separated from the galvanometer and the bridge by three large apartments, and the noise of the sparks was not audible.

The narrowness of the bridge prevented many soldiers from crossing together ( possibly as few as three men abreast ), so while the English soldiers crossed, the Scots held back until half of them had passed and then killed the English as quickly as they could cross.

W and Y, X and Z are conjugate pairsA hybrid coil ( or bridge transformer, or sometimes hybrid ) is a transformer that has three windings, and which is designed to be configured as a circuit having four branches, ( i. e. ports ) that are conjugate in pairs.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Xerxes's first attempt to bridge the Hellespont ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges ; Xerxes ordered the Hellespont ( the strait itself ) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water.

The bridge, now pedestrianised, remains in place today, the only such fortified bridge in Britain and reputedly one of only three similar crossings in Europe.

There is a three bay arcade at the East end of the bridge.

A letter in The Times ( London ), January 16, 1905, signed by Oswald Crawford, describes auction bridge as first played in 1904, while a book by " John Doe " ( F. Roe ), published in Alláhábád, India, in 1889, puts forward auction bridge as an invention of three members of the Indian Civil Service stationed at an isolated community, designed a three-handed form of bridge to compensate the lack of a fourth player.

On spring and summer evenings people leave their shops and houses and walk up through the lanes of the city to the bridge.

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.

On 25 October 2009 turf was laid across the eight lanes of bitumen, and 6, 000 people celebrated a picnic on the bridge accompanied by live music.

In a physical analogy, consider the merging behaviour of commuters crossing a narrow bridge ; vehicles will take turns using the few available lanes.

The structure has a mass of 82, 000 tonnes and supports two railway tracks beneath four road lanes in a horizontal girder extending along the entire length of the bridge.

On 6 March 2009, however, as part of a massive new public works program, Silvio Berlusconi's government announced that plans to construct the Messina Bridge had been fully revived, pledging EUR 1. 3 billion as a contribution to its estimated cost of EUR 6. 1 billion Some 3. 3 km long and 60 m wide, the bridge would be supported by two 382 m pillars, each higher than the Empire State Building, and accommodate six freeway lanes, a railway ( for up to 200 trains a day ), and two walkways.

The northbound bridge was built in 1958 with the expansion of US 77 to four lanes.

It will feature 10 lanes ( 5 in each direction ) and allow for the dismantling of the crosstown bridge, which will in turn be replaced by a landscaped boulevard.

The wide bridge deck carries six lanes of automobile traffic, with three lanes in each direction.

The lower level contains two rail tracks and two sheltered carriageways, used for maintenance access and traffic lanes when particularly severe typhoons strike Hong Kong and the bridge deck is closed to traffic.

Gretna Police had charge of Westbank-bound lanes, while Jefferson Parish deputies controlled the east bank-bound lanes and the bridge police closed the transit lanes.

With this project, the current bridge over the Papakating Creek is to be replaced and a new road for the southbound lanes is planned to be built, while the current Route 23 will become northbound only.

Two lanes of the six-lane bridge opened November 1, 2007.

The Dingman's Ferry Bridge, one of the last privately owned toll bridge on the Delaware River and one of the last few in the United States, carries two lanes of PA 739 and NJ County Route 560, connecting to Delaware Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania.

Four lanes of traffic began using the bridge that same month.

The course in Stockholm was not straight, and one of the two lanes was clearly favoured, the other requiring the cox to steer around a protruding boathouse and then back under a bridge.

The original plan called for a mixed railway-road bridge, but when construction on the bridge began in April 1988, the construction was restricted to road only, with six lanes.

In 2001 it became the world's first suspension bridge to be widened ( from three to five lanes ) using cantilevers, and the world's first bridge to undergo strengthening and widening work while remaining open to traffic.