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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.
The Chenoweth brothers were experienced bridge builders, and against the competition of other, and better known, bridge designers and builders they had constructed nine of the covered, wooden bridges on the Parkersburg and Staunton Turnpike a dozen years before, as well as many other bridges for several counties.
Board game with inlays of ivory, rock crystal and glass paste, covered with gold and silver leaf, on a wooden base ( Knossos, Minoan chronology | New Palace period 1600 – 1500 B. C., Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete )
The pop science TV program MythBusters attempted to model Archimedes ' feat by using mirrors to ignite a small wooden boat covered with tar, with only partial success — they found it too difficult to focus light from their hand-held mirrors onto a point small enough to ignite the boat.
Early fighters were very small and lightly armed by later standards, and most were biplanes built with a wooden frame, covered with fabric, and limited to about 100 mph.
alt = Man sitting with legs covered in boat that tapers to a point at each end holding long, pointed, wooden pole
These instruments often had bodies covered with animal skin, and it is unknown exactly when it became replaced with a wooden soundboard.
Most insulated buildings that utilize concrete block, brick, adobe, stone, veneers or some combination thereof feature interior insulation in the form of fiberglass batts between wooden wall studs or in the form of rigid insulation boards covered with plaster or drywall.
In addition wooden spears and tools were made in an area now covered in peat bog in the South East.
* Snow shoe – a wooden or leather piece which increases the area of ground covered by the shoe.
Players are equipped with a laminated wooden racket covered with rubber on one or two sides depending on the grip of the player.
She was later said to be responsible for decoding a warning that the Persian forces were about to invade Greece ; after Spartan generals could not decode a wooden tablet covered in wax, she ordered them to clear the wax, revealing the warning.
Many battering rams possessed curved or slanted wooden roofs and side-screens covered in protective materials, usually fresh wet hides, presumably skinned from animals eaten by the besiegers.
A water ramp consists of a wooden ramp covered with a special plastic mat that when lubricated with sprinklers allows an athlete to ski down the ramp towards a jump.
* Tinganes, the old part of town, it is still made up of small wooden houses covered with turf roofs.
Although sometimes carrying a spearman along with the charioteer ( driver ), such heavy proto-chariots, borne on solid wooden wheels and covered with skins, may have been part of the baggage train ( e. g., during royal funeral processions ) rather than vehicles of battle in themselves.
It consists of a conical wooden pipe covered in leather, is about 24 inches long, and has finger holes and a small horn or ivory mouthpiece.
It is built as a three storied structure with rammed mud walls and wooden doors, windows and roof covered with slates.
It covers an area of north to south by east to west, and housed around 100 people in five to seven groups of houses, each for an extended family, with sheds and barns, made of hazel and willow covered with reeds, and surrounded either permanently or at certain times by a wooden palisade.
The Chalice Well is a holy well at the foot of the Tor, covered by a wooden well-cover with wrought-iron decoration made in 1919.
In the early hours of August 15, just as the Foreign Legations were being relieved, the Empress Dowager, dressed in the padded blue cotton of a farm woman, the Emperor Guangxu, and a small retinue climbed into three wooden ox carts and escaped from the city covered with rough blankets.
The East Hancock neighborhood was formerly characterised by a number of deep ravines originally covered with wooden sidewalks that were filled in by the Dakota Heights Land Company ; the neighbourhood was then " subdivided into residential lots ".
wooden bodywork covered with leather-like material.
The canvas was applied to the wooden surface of the Pavise, covered with multiple layers of gesso and often richly painted in tempera technique.

covered and bridge
The first bridge known to have been covered wholly or in part, -- and perhaps the most interesting one, connected Newbury ( now Newburyport ) with Salisbury Point.
An old shipwreck, a high dam, an old covered bridge, a place to find agates or other semi-precious stones or a place to pan gold, etcetera may be of interest.
The bridge is covered with 32 inhabited buildings.
The lake was built in the 1930s to store water for an electricity generator ( central of Coghinadordza ), and it covered an ancient Roman bridge as well as an ancient archaeological site of the Nuragici people.
Lower Town began to develop in 1847 with the completion of the Franklin Avenue ( now Grand River Avenue ) covered bridge over the Grand River.
This tall bridge includes a glass covered pylon, which lights up at night, adding a distinctive feature to Toledo's skyline.
* May 31 – The 13-kilometer Confederation Bridge, the world's longest bridge spanning ice covered waters, opens between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada.
** The 1, 282 foot ( 390 m ) covered bridge crossing the St. John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada opens.
It is the longest covered bridge in the world.
It is a single-span bridge of stone with highly decorative Neo-Gothic covered footwalk over with traceried openings.
* Salem-Shotwell Covered Bridge, a covered bridge in Alabama, United States
* Nectar Covered Bridge, a former covered bridge in Alabama
The bridge across the Euphrates is of particular interest, in that it was supported on asphalt covered brick piers that were streamlined to reduce the upstream resistance to flow, and the downstream turbulence that would otherwise undermine the foundations.
* Bering Sea: Bering land bridge from Siberia to North America covered in water.
Of the other battalions, the 3rd had only covered half the distance to the bridge when they halted for the night, the rear of their column being under attack and needing time to catch up.
A third covered bridge is one parallel north of the Rolling Stone.
By the 1850s, when a major covered bridge was constructed at Philippi to service travellers on the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike, the County's population was approaching 10, 000 people.
Although strong in compression, cast iron was known to be brittle in tension or bending, yet, on the day of the accident, the bridge deck was covered with track ballast to prevent the oak beams supporting the track from catching fire.
The same year, the world's longest covered bridge was built across the Susquehanna to Wrightsville, facilitating traffic flow across the river and reducing the need for the ferry.
A replacement covered bridge, the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, was built within two years.
Built by James Moore and John Evans at a cost of $ 157, 300, this bridge, too, enjoyed the distinction of being the world ’ s longest covered bridge.

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