The longest and most famous of these roads is the Great North Road.

The Aar ( German Aare ), a tributary of the High Rhine, is the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.

* 1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

However the longest continuously-singing group is probably The Whiffenpoofs of Yale University, which was formed in 1909 and once included Cole Porter as a member.

Aberfoyle is also home to the largest Go Ape adventure course in the UK, featuring the longest zip-line in the UK.

Alameda is also known for its Fourth of July parade, which is advertised as the second oldest and second longest Fourth of July parade in the United States.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

The Book of Alma is the longest of all the books of the Book of Mormon, consisting of 63 chapters.

The longest east-west extent is about 1, 175 km.

The world's longest beam bridge is Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in southern Louisiana in the United States, at, with individual spans of.

With the span of, the Solkan Bridge over the Soča River at Solkan in Slovenia is the second largest stone bridge in the world and the longest railroad stone bridge.

The longest suspension bridge in the world is the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan.

The longest cable-stayed bridge is the Sutong Bridge over the Yangtze River in China.

* The River Bosna is the longest river in Bosnia and is fully contained within the country as it stretches from its source near Sarajevo to the river Sava in the north.

The longest half-life is the neutron deficient < sup > 77 </ sup > Br at 2. 376 days.

The longest half-life on the neutron rich side is < sup > 82 </ sup > Br at 1. 471 days.

Dividing limits the size of chains-in the case of 4x4 squares, the longest possible chain is four, filling the larger square.

Barcelona is the transport hub with one of Europe's principal ports, Barcelona international airport, which handles above 34 million passengers per year, extensive motorway network and also is a hub of high-speed rail, particularly that which is intended to link Spain with France and the rest of Europe as the second longest in the world.

Bayonne has the longest tradition of bull-fighting in France and there is a ring beyond the walls of Grand Bayonne.

In the second part of the 20th century hexameter was used in the longest ever poem, Savitri ( book ), written in English by Sri Aurobindo.

The longest available version is the DVD published by the British Film Institute ( BFI ), containing a short scene usually deleted from other prints, in which, during the first wedding, one of the masters quotes a Gottfried Benn poem.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere ) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797 – 98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.

It is by far his longest poem ; unlike Alice, which is prose with occasional poems within the text, the Snark rhymes from start to end.

His contemporary Lactantius is probably the author who wrote the longest poem on the famous bird.

He is known chiefly for his 48-book poem the Dionysiaca, the longest surviving poem in Greek from antiquity ( it is only 7, 000 lines shorter than the Iliad and Odyssey combined ).

Nonnus ' principal work is the Dionysiaca, an epic in 48 books, the longest surviving poem from antiquity at 20, 426 lines, composed in Homeric dialect and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return to the west.

During this imprisonment, maintaining his cheerful philosophy, he wrote his longest humorous poem, Alma ; or, The Progress of the Mind.

The longest poem is his Morall Fabillis, a tight, intricately structured set of thirteen fable stories in a cycle that runs just short of 3000 lines.

The longest, and most comprehensive poem is a " Kedushah ," which summons all the universe to praise God with rejoicing, and which terminates, curiously enough, in Ps.

Some more traditional poets have also used syllabics, including Elizabeth Daryush and Robert Bridges whose Testament of Beauty is the longest syllabic poem in English.

Kensington Gardens ( 1722 ), Tickell's longest poem, is sometimes viewed as inflated and pedantic.

The " tale ", which is the longest of all the surviving contributions by Chaucer's pilgrims, is in fact neither a story nor a poem, but a long and unrelieved prose treatise on virtuous living.

The Throne Room contains one of the world's longest () soda straw stalactites and a high column called Kubla Khan, after the poem.

In terms of length, Elene is by far the longest poem of Cynewulf ’ s corpus at 1, 321 lines.

In one of its dozens of iterations, the epic poem consists of approximately 500, 000 lines, and while Kyrgyz historians consider it to be the longest epic poem in history, the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata and the Tibetan Epic of King Gesar are both longer.

It was the longest poem in the book, spanning a total of eight pages.

Benefits that are commonly quoted include: the GDP of Tibet Autonomous Region ( TAR ) today is 30 times that before 1950 ; it has 22, 500 km of highways, all built since 1950 ; all secular education in the region was created after integration into the PRC ; there are 25 scientific research institutes, all built by the PRC ; infant mortality has dropped from 43 % in 1950 to 0. 661 % in 2000 ; life expectancy has risen from 35. 5 years in 1950 to 67 in 2000 ; the collection and publishing of the traditional Epic of King Gesar, which is the longest epic poem in the world and had only been handed down orally before ; allocation of 300 million Renminbi since the 1980s to the maintenance and protection of Tibetan monasteries.

The longest elaboration of this private myth-cycle was also his longest poem — The Four Zoas: The Death and Judgment of Albion The Ancient Man —, written in the late 1790s but left in manuscript form at the time of his death.

Lars, somewhat after the manner of Tennyson, is his longest and most attractive narrative poem.

His only surviving work is the 17-book Punica, an epic poem about the Second Punic War and the longest surviving poem in Latin at over 12, 000 lines.