It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.

The special guard, however, was still posted on Kehl bridge.

Grabski's shanty was beyond the bridge over the River Bystrzyca near the rail center.

A month later the General Court served notice to the town of Newbury that the bridge was to be built.

On November 26 of that year the bridge was completed and opened.

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.

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.

The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.

The north portion of the Essex bridge was well worth the cost of construction, although it proved to be twice what was estimated in the beginning.

In 1810 it was torn down and replaced by a chain suspension bridge.

In spite of this catastrophe, the bridge was rebuilt on the same plan and opened again on July 17, 1827.

This second chain bridge was 570 feet long, had two thirty-foot towers and a draw, and a double roadway.

The Essex bridge was a toll crossing until 1868, when the County Commissioners laid out all the Merrimack bridges as highways.

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

Completed and opened for traffic in 1852, the bridge was designed and built by Lemuel Chenoweth and his brother, Eli, of Beverly.

The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.

Never rebuilt, the bridge was strengtened in 1938 by two extra piers, a concrete floor, and a walk-way along the upper side in order to care for modern traffic.

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.

The second, named Fatih Sultan Mehmet ( Bosphorus II ) Bridge, is long, and was completed in 1988 about north of the first bridge.

The original vertical-lift span of the Dumbarton Bridge, shown in 1984 shortly before it was demolishedThe bridge has never been officially named, but its commonly used name comes from Dumbarton Point, named in 1876 after Dumbarton, Scotland.

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.

On-site work began in January 1876 and was complete by the end of October 1877: the bridge was ceremonially opened by King Luis I and Queen Maria Pia, after whom the bridge was named, on 4 November.

To the east of London, the Dartford Crossing of the Thames between Thurrock and Dartford is the lesser grade A282 ; the Crossing, which consists of two tunnels and the QE2 ( Queen Elizabeth II ) bridge, is named Canterbury Way.

The Sistine Chapel was sponsored by Sixtus IV, as was the Ponte Sisto, the Sistine Bridge – the first new bridge across the Tiber since antiquity – and the building of Via Sistina ( later named Borgo Sant ' Angelo ), a road leading from Castel Sant ' Angelo to Saint Peter.

The two arrive at the river Gjöll and then continue to Gjöll bridge, encountering a maiden guarding the bridge named Móðguðr.

In July 2007, it was proposed that the suspension bridge on the cyclepath from Woy Woy to Gosford be named after him.

If the Americas are viewed as a single continent ( named America ), then it is composed of the subcontinents of North America and South America, the land bridge of Central America, and the islands of the Antillas.

Yggdrasil is first mentioned in the poem in stanza 29, where Odin says that, because the " bridge of the Æsir burns " and the " sacred waters boil ," Thor must wade through the rivers Körmt and Örmt and two rivers named Kerlaugar to go " sit as judge at the ash of Yggdrasill.

A state park in Chattanooga, Tennessee was named in his honor, as was a bridge spanning the Hampton River adjacent to his alma mater, Hampton University.

* In honor of his 80th birthday, the bridge connecting Walton and University drives in Texarkana, Texas, was named the H. Ross Perot Bridge.

The city named the nearby bridge over the St. Mary's River the Carole Lombard Memorial Bridge.

Having purchased the Achilleion in 1907 after Sissi's death, he appointed Carl Ludwig Sprenger as the botanical architect of the Palace, and also built a bridge to be named by the locals after him: " Kaiser's bridge " ( Greek: η γέφυρα του Κάιζερ transliterated as: i yefyra tou Kaizer ), to access the beach without traversing the road forming the island's main artery to the south.

# Old Godavari Bridge ( also known as Havelock bridge, and named after then Madras Governor )

A school and a bridge on the north east stretch of the A46 are named after him in Evesham.

Maxentius chose to make his stand in front of the Milvian Bridge, a stone bridge that carries the Via Flaminia road across the Tiber River into Rome ( the bridge stands today at the same site, somewhat remodelled, named in Italian Ponte Milvio or sometimes Ponte Molle, soft bridge ).

The Illinois General Assembly set aside $ 20, 000 for bridge restoration in 1951 and in 1953 the bridge was named after William F. Dean.

Sturdy and strong after more than a century of continuous use, the old covered, wooden bridge that spans the Tygartis Valley River at Philippi will have a distinctive part in the week-long observance of the first land battle of the Civil War at its home site, May 28th to June 3rd.

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.

His reputation grew, and he appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States, arguing a case involving a canal boat that sank after hitting a bridge.

However, the Germans swam across again and some others got over by a bridge a little way up-stream, after which they assailed the barbarians from several sides at once and cut down many of them.

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

Steamboat companies saw nationwide railroads as a threat to their business and on May 6, 1856, just weeks after the bridge was completed, a steamboat captain deliberately crashed the Effie Afton into the bridge.

By contrast, if the bridge actually supported his weight then he might say he " thought " that the bridge was safe, and now after proving it to himself, he knows.

Tajikistan – Afghanistan bridge at Panji Poyon | Afghanistan-Tajikistan bridge after completion in 2007 is one of several bridges used for trade between Afghanistan and Central Asia.

Several injured passengers were trapped in the train, for hours after the accident, by part of the bridge crushing a limb or torso.

Some places may even retain " island " in their names for historical reasons after being connected to a larger landmass by a wide land bridge, such as Coney Island.

Part of the Miles Glacier Bridge, with a " kludgy " temporary fix to make the bridge usable after 1964 Alaska earthquake | earthquake damage.

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.

Heavy pedestrian traffic did not allow him to land there either, so after circling about the square one more time, he was able to land on a bridge by St.

A later inquiry found that trolly wires normally strung over the bridge – which would have incidentally prevented his landing there – had been removed for maintenance that very morning, and were replaced the day after.

The vocal versions of the song featured in this game are the adults ' version, sung by Curtis King, Jr., & Dana Calitri ; and the children's version, sung by Cameron Earl Strother and Jasmine Ann Allen, which segues into the adults ' version after the bridge.

* 1993 – Stari most, the " old bridge " in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.