It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

They are only permitted to meet once a year, when the Milky Way is crossed by a bridge of magpies.

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

One contemporary who tried to bridge the gap, William Makepeace Thackeray, established a tentative cordial relationship in the late 1840s only to see everything collapse when Disraeli took offence at a burlesque of him which Thackeray penned for Punch.

In duplicate bridge, the hands are shuffled and dealt only once, at the beginning of the session.

These proved crucial in 1813 and 1814, when Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington's army besieged the city in the Napoleonic Wars, only taking it when they used a bridge of ships across the Adour to position artillery around the city.

For many centuries to come Basel possessed the only permanent bridge over the river " between Lake Constance and the sea ".

In their first major use at the Battle of Cambrai ( 1917 ), the plan was for a cavalry division to follow behind the tanks, however they were not able to cross a canal because a tank had broken the only bridge.

Because of that the vehicle with the bridge on board is only 11. 6 m long, but the over all span length is 20 m. This is an increase of about 62 % over that of the older MTU-1.

Since the string vibrates from the bridge only as far as the tangent, multiple keys with multiple tangents can be assigned to the same string.

Yasna 19 ( which has only survived in a Sassanid era ( 226 – 650 CE ) Zend commentary on the Ahuna Vairya invocation ), prescribes a Path to Judgement known as the Chinvat Peretum or Chinvat bridge ( cf: As-Sirāt in Islam ), which all souls had to cross, and judgement ( over thoughts, words, deeds performed during a lifetime ) was passed as they were doing so.

However, they find that the only bridge connecting the cabin to civilization has been destroyed with the supports bent into the shape of a hand.

It might also be so named because of the geometrical figure's resemblance to a steep bridge that only a sure-footed donkey could cross.

After the bridge learns the addresses associated with each port, it forwards network traffic only to the necessary segments, improving overall performance.

This worked somewhat differently from an Ethernet bridge, where only the header of the incoming packet would be examined before it was either dropped or forwarded to another segment.

While Ash is dealing with this force, the professor's daughter, Annie, and her research partner, Ed Getley, return from the dig with more pages of the Necronomicon in tow, only to find the destroyed bridge.

The Spaniard, Michael Servetus denounced the orthodox Christian formulation of the Trinity ( demonstrating the only explicit reference to the Trinity in the New Testament to be a later interpolation ); and hoped thereby to bridge the doctrinal divide between Christianity and Islam.

One species, Chasmaporthetes ossifragus, managed to cross the land bridge into North America, being the only hyena to do so.

The final of this line, which opened on 18 December 1905, lies within the borders of Lesotho, running from the border bridge on the Mohokare River through the northern industrial district of Maseru to that city's station, the only railway station in the country.

In recent years, the bridge has been closed on 1 May to prevent people from jumping, as the water under the bridge is only deep and jumping from the bridge has resulted in serious injury in the past.

Envisioned since the 1880s, the bridge was designed by engineer David B. Steinman and completed in 1957 only after many decades of struggles to begin construction.

In Quechua, the language of the Inca civilization, Crux is known as " Chakana ", which means literally " stair " ( chaka, bridge, link ; hanan, high, above ), but carries a deep symbolism within Quechua mysticism.

Gandhi attempted to bridge these differences through many means, including a three-week fast in the autumn of 1924, but with limited success.

The term " pontiff " is derived from the Latin word pontifex, which literally means " bridge builder " ( pons + facere ), and which designated a member of the principal college of priests in ancient Rome.

In Arabic, al qantara means " the bridge ".

The highest tier of planning is the strategy, which is about how force is translated into political objectives, or more specifically how you bridge the means and ends of war together.

The Romans, desiring to cut off the enemy's means of escape, sent rafts of burning logs down the Anio to destroy the bridge over the river by fire.

Pont is a French word, and means bridge in English.

By means of a floating bridge Gen. Weitzel began crossing his men to the west bank to attack the Rebel troops there.

After automobile traffic crossing the bridge became the most popular means of traveling to and from the island, the Michigan Central Railroad ceased daily passenger service during early 1924 and stopped occasional freight train service to the island in 1929.

There are 17th century references to a ' cow-bridge ' over a tributary of the river Thaw ( which flows through the town ) but Cowbridge's Welsh name, Y Bont-faen, means literally ' the stone bridge '.

When the Jefferson Highway was first located through Eufaula the only way of crossing the South Canadian River, about four miles below the town, was by means of a rather uncertain ferry, and the citizens of Eufaula, feeling the great need of a good bridge across the river, incorporated-The Jefferson Highway Bridge Company, and at a cost of almost a quarter of a million dollars, built the present splendid structure of steel and concrete, forty feet above low water ; affording a 365 day crossing throughout the year.

The river is crossed by means of an A-frame bridge ( only three in Norfolk ) before arriving at Drayton.

Although there was a rail bridge to Indooroopilly and beyond to the northern suburbs of Brisbane, local residents were frustrated because there was no means by which cars could cross the river.

This was done by means of an elegant three arched bridge built by the Butterley Company.

* In around 1200 A. D., the Castle of Örebro was built to protect the bridge crossing the ford ( öre means " sand bank " and bro means " bridge "), as well as the borough on the south side of the bridge.

Bridge 8: The Blue Prince, having analyzed the town's bridge system by means of graph theory, concludes that the bridges cannot be walked.

The elemental nature of each sword also provides a necessary means of traversing otherwise impassable obstacles ; certain barriers succumb to the power blasts of individual swords, and the Sword of Water creates a bridge of ice across some shallow, narrow sections of rivers., also some enemies are immune to certain types of elements and must be killed using their opposite element ( Ice creatures are weak against fire ).

Zhou Dynasty era Chinese were known to use temporary pontoon bridges for general means of transportation, but it was during the Qin and later Han Dynasty that large permanent pontoon bridges were assembled, and used for purposes of warfare ( first written account of a pontoon bridge in the West being the oversight of the Greek Mandrocles of Samos in aiding a military campaign of Persian Emperor Darius I over the Bosporus ).

" Halfpenny notes that in many Eurasian languages the word for " bridge " etymologically means " horse ," and that the Chinese regarded their own bowed instruments ( huqin ) as having originated with the " barbarians " of Central Asia.

A pivotal charge, led by one of Wallace's captains, caused some of the English soldiers to retreat as others pushed forward, and under the overwhelming weight, the bridge collapsed and many English soldiers drowned.

Immediately after the 1965 war, Major General Yahya Khan who had miserably commanded the 7th Division in Operation Grand Slam to utter disgust ,( since the change of command from a successfully advancing Maj. General Akhtar Hussain Malik had resulted in a shameful retreat from Akhnoor river bridge ) was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General, appointed Deputy Army Commander in Chief and Commander in Chief designate in March 1966.

As American troops tried to retreat across this bridge to Vossenack, great parts of the Kall Valley were already cut off by the Germans.

During the filming of a scene in which a bridge was blown up, Eastwood urged Wallach to retreat to a hilltop.

The Swedes used the abandoned supply wagons to make a wagon fort in order to cover the retreat across the bridge over Lesnjanka.

Constantine's infantry then advanced, most of Maxentius's troops fought well but they began to be pushed back toward the Tiber ; Maxentius decided to retreat and make another stand at Rome itself ; but there was only one escape route, via the bridge.

With the Tennesseans still pressing, the retreat bottlenecked at the bridge and a panicked rout developed instead.

Because of this information, the South had been able meet the Union Army at a place where they could ambush Sturgis and make retreat as difficult as possible ( Tishomingo Creek was in their rear with only a single bridge as a crossing point.

" They called on Horatius to retreat but perceiving the tactical difficulty of allowing the enemy to cross he stood his ground, directing them to tell the consuls to tear up the bridge.

Foy's division covered the French retreat towards Alba de Tormes, where there was a bridge they could use to escape.

After covering the withdrawal at Céret, de Vives pulled out of the town and Augereau crossed the bridge to harass the Spanish retreat.

Many defenders were killed and the remaining Dutch infantry attempted to escape across the mill bridge, but it collapsed during the retreat and hundreds of Allied troops drowned.

One flaw in the position was that an Austrian retreat could only be made across a single bridge over the Hain River.

Some Americans had swarmed onto the Post Road in order to block to British retreat across the bridge, but Mawhood ordered a bayonet charge, and broke through the American lines, escaping across the bridge.

When the Royalists approached the bridge they faced musket fire which made them retreat in confusion.

Gaius fled the temple and tried to cross the Tiber on a wooden bridge while Pomponius and Licinius would stay back and cover his retreat, killing as many as they could until they were themselves felled.

Sheaffe decided that the battle was lost and ordered the regulars to retreat, setting fire to the wooden bridge over the River Don east of the town to thwart pursuit.

In retreat, they safely crossed a bridge spanning a small river, the Töss, but the cavalry guarding the bridge was itself forced back.

Due to the support of the government by the nationalist PPS, efforts by the KPRP to agitate for workers solidarity with the Red Army were forestalled and with the retreat of the Red Army the possibility of Poland becoming a bridge to revolutionary Germany faded.

When he learned that royalist troops were coming to fight, he reinforced the defenses on the bridge, but was still forced to retreat to Nautla in July of that year.

After the retreat of the Roman administration from Dacia in the 4th century, the city was preserved under Roman occupation as a bridge head on the north bank of the Danube until the 6th century.

Dumont's soldiers entered the town from the bridge ( Col. Lander's ride down the steep hillside through heavy underbrush was considered such a feat of horsemanship that Leslie's Weekly gave an illustrated account of it shortly afterward ), but Kelley's column had arrived from the north on the wrong road and were unable to block the Confederate retreat.