The bridge is attested as Bilröst in the Poetic Edda ; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and as Bifröst in the Prose Edda ; written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds.

The one major paratrooper attack was used earlier in Holland to capture a bridge and a number of small-scale glider-landings were conducted in Belgium to capture terrain dominating bottle-necks on planned routes of advance prior to the arrival of the main ground forces ( the most renowned being the landing on the Belgian border-fort of Eben-Emael ).

The bridge was largely funded by Basel's Jewish community which had settled there a century earlier.

Whereas earlier instruments ' bass strings were a mere continuation of a single string plane, over-stringing placed the bass bridge behind and to the treble side of the tenor bridge area.

No earlier evidence of human occupation has been found, but the island almost certainly formed part of the land bridge used for the settlement of Australia and New Guinea by at least 40, 000 BC There is no evidence of Homo erectus having reached Sulawesi ; crude stone tools first discovered in 1947 on the right bank of the Walennae river at Berru, which were thought to date to the Pleistocene on the basis of their association with vertebrate fossils, are now thought to date to perhaps 50, 000 BC

* October 22 – Ghiyasu'd-Din Naqqah, an envoy of the embassy sent by the Timurid ruler of Persia, Mirza Shahrukh ( r. 1404 – 1447 ), to the Ming Dynasty of China during the reign of the Yongle Emperor ( r. 1402 – 1424 ), records his sight and travel over a large floating pontoon bridge at Lanzhou ( constructed earlier in 1372 ) as he crosses the Yellow River on this day.

This system or slight variants are learned by most beginners in the U. S. and may earlier have been referred to as ' Goren '; a dominant version used in on-line computer bridge play is known as Standard American Yellow Card, detailed below.

This bridge completed in 1997, was built upstream of the earlier bridges.

It is possible that there may have been a two-pronged attack by Godwinson on Hardrada's army, making use of both the ford and perhaps the remnants of the earlier Roman bridge one mile to the south, information of which, and of the two road routes to the location from York, could have been gathered from Godwinson's earlier occupation of the city of York.

The vehicle comes to a screeching halt over the bridge demolished earlier in the game, and after a final conflict, Ripburger falls to his death.

Wroxham Bridge was rebuilt of brick and stone in 1619, replacing a bridge built in 1576 which itself replaced an earlier, probably wooden, structure.

Constructed in the early 1930s as a replacement for an earlier wooden planked structure, this bridge has become the town's emblem, and more practically, a major river crossing for residents of Massachusetts and New Hampshire alike.

The Mandelabrug ( Nelson Mandela bridge ) was built over the latter for the Floriade ( replacing a earlier smaller bridge, deemed insufficient for the increased traffic ) as a covered bicycle and pedestrian passage over the railway, motorway and the RandstadRail, which adjoins it at this point from the North.

The Inner Court, or the Castle, lies beyond the Bailey across the 15th century bridge that replaced the earlier drawbridge on the site.

In the 1621 version, Sir William Alexander provided a bridge to bring the two stories back into agreement .< Evans, 12-13 > It was known in this cobbled-together fashion until the discovery, in the early twentieth century, of the earlier version.

Kramer's guitar models with the Floyd Rose bridge became very popular, leading them to drop the earlier Rockinger vibrato in favor of the Floyd Rose between June 1982 and January 1983.

The first stone bridge on the Meuse and major repair to the castle, which had been built earlier, also date from the end of the 11th century.

Barnum that crossed the Brooklyn Bridge in order to prove that the bridge was safe after 12 people died on the bridge a year earlier on Memorial Day May 31, 1883 during a stampede.

This bridge with four arches included various buildings such as a chapel, bakehouse and possibly an inn and replaced an earlier wooden bridge ( Dubhghalls Bridge ) on the same site.

After earlier failing to hold or retake Franquenée and Taviers, Guiscard ’ s right flank had become dangerously exposed and a fatal gap had opened on the right of their line.

The new engine had mechanically operated intake valves, as opposed to the " automatic " intake valves used on earlier V-Twins that opened by engine vacuum.

The Indian Ocean is far calmer, and was thus opened to trade earlier than the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans.

Franklin was situated at the eastern end of the Santa Fe Trail, which had opened two years earlier.

The park was to have opened a year earlier, but an accident during its construction, which resulted in the deaths of three workers, forced a year's delay and $ 50 million to $ 75 million in damage.

The crossing began operating on 11 November 1989, earlier than the iconic Brandenburg Gate crossing which opened more than a month later.

As the convention opened in Philadelphia on June 24, Gallup reported that in a poll taken a few days earlier, Willkie had moved up to 29 %, Dewey had slipped 5 % to 47 %, and Taft, Vandenberg, and former President Hoover trailed at 8 %, 8 %, and 6 % respectively.

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar had earlier opened the scoring for Ajax, making him the first goalscorer at the Emirates Stadium .< ref >

The city of York only opened its gates to him after he promised that he had just come to reclaim his dukedom-just as Henry Bolingbroke had done seventy years earlier.

The Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge was opened two months earlier.

On July 14, 1970, in brand-new Riverfront Stadium ( opened just two weeks earlier ), Rose was involved in one of the most famous plays in All-Star Game history.

At Bacup passengers used the terminus opened 30 years earlier by the East Lancashire Railway, joining the Rossendale line just outside the station.

The first bookmaker in the UK is considered to be Harry Ogden, who opened a business in the 1790s, although similar activities had existed in other forms earlier in the century.

* October 18, 1985: Detroit, Michigan During halftime of the homecoming football game between Northwestern High School and Murray-Wright High School, a boy who was in a fight earlier that day pulled out a shotgun and opened fire, injuring six students.

In 1954 the original span of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge was opened, replacing earlier ferry service.

In 1961, the U. S. Navy opened NAS Lemoore west of Lemoore, not far from the earlier site.

Addington's foreign secretary, Robert Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury, immediately opened communications with Louis Guillaume Otto, the French commissary for prisoners of war in London, through whom Bonaparte had made his earlier proposals.

The station, designed by architect Lewis Cubitt and opened in 1852, succeeded a short-lived earlier station, erected north of the canal in time for the Great Exhibition.

The Great Western Steamship Company, which had opened its pioneer Bristol – New York service earlier that year, bid £ 45, 000 for a monthly Bristol – Halifax – New York service using three ships of 450 horsepower.

In 1924, evangelist John Brown, who had earlier opened John E. Brown College in Siloam Springs ( Benton County ), bought the Kihlberg Hotel, along with much of downtown Sulphur Springs, and opened John Brown University.

While there had been earlier schemes to develop a town on Key Biscayne, it wasn't until the opening of the four-mile ( 6 km ) long Rickenbacker Causeway from Miami to Virginia Key and on to Key Biscayne in 1947 that the island was opened up to large scale residential development.

The Little Ski Hill was the second ski area in Idaho, after Sun Valley, which opened a year earlier.

The Track was first opened in 1979 but the third and final alignment and extension through to Albany was opened in 1998 and retains less than 10 % of earlier alignments.