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Famous bridges, dams and canals from around the world |
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 | San Gabriel River Flood Control in Northern Los Angeles. |  | 08/15/2005 | 213 | 
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 | Deutzer Bridge, in Colonge | | 08/15/2005 | 233 |
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 | "The longest bridge, the shortest route."
About the bridge.
12.9 kilometer span over icy water (record setter) Prince Edward Island - New Brunswick. Private (!) bridge until 2032.
Official Site: In 1987, the Governmen... |  | 08/14/2005 | 268 |
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 | Kariba Dam. Construction of this dam was accompanied by a huge operation to save wildlife from the flood. I think that Lake Kariba is the second largest man made lake in the world. Shame it isn't hi-res |  | 08/13/2005 | 415 |
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 | To the right of the river and to the left of N Main street, you will see remnants of the Morris Canal This part of the canal ran right down plane street via an inclined plane. I believe the plane looked like so:
http://www.canalsocietynj.org/P7E.html but I could be mistaken. | | 08/12/2005 | 202 |
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 | The disaster of the Malpasset dam (barrage de Malpasset), which broke on the night of 2 December 1959 and killed over 420 people, possibly even more than 500. | | 08/11/2005 | 457 |
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 | Portugalete Transporter Bridge, Spain. This ferry bridge was built in 1893. One of 8 bridges which is still in use // Schwebefähre in Portugalete, Spanien. Eine von 8 weltweit noch erhaltenen Schwebefähren. Sie wurde 1893 erbaut und ist damit die älteste. | | 08/11/2005 | 236 |
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 | Aioi Bridge was a nationally known T-shaped bridge with girders extending from its central section to Jisenji-no-hana (now, the north end of Peace Memorial Park). The bridge was the target of the atomic bomb. The bomb missed slightly, exploding 300 meters from the bridge in the air over Shima Hospital.
It was reconstructed after the war and replaced in 1983 by a newer, again T- ... |  | 08/10/2005 | 230 |
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 | The Port of La Plata, near Buenos Aires, over the Rio de La Plata. That city is capital of Buenos Aires state. | | 08/09/2005 | 303 |
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 | the draw bridge is starting to close! | | 08/09/2005 | 280 |
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 | Wooden Railway Bridge on the San Diego & Arizona Line (Wikipedia link). |  | 08/09/2005 | 491 |
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 | Really cool shadow off the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan. | | 08/08/2005 | 277 |
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 | A large dam in China | | 08/08/2005 | 634 |
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 | One of the longest bridges in the world, +/- 17Km (10.5 Mile) |  | 08/08/2005 | 451 |
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 | This shot shows the old and new.
The new bridge, called the Sunshine Skyway, was build to replace the previous bridge damaged when hit by a freighter in 1980.
The new bridge is 22,000 ft long and 175 ft above water.
If you zoom in on the center crossing you will see the yellow cables. | | 08/08/2005 | 402 |
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 | Széchenyi Lánchíd or Széchenyi Chain Bridge is one of the most famous bridges of Budapest, Hungary. It connects Buda and Pest (the west and east side of the capital) across the River Danube.
Its two ends are Roosevelt square (with the Gresham Palace and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Adam Clark square (the Zero Kilometre Stone, and the lower end of the Budapest Funicular,... | | 08/07/2005 | 405 |
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 | The Rio Niteroi Bridge links the city of Rio de Janeiro to Niteroi. It is 14Km long. | | 08/06/2005 | 1,289 |
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 | The canal "Mittellandkanal" crosses the river "Leine" near Hannover, Germany. Here, a boat just happens to cross the "Leine" on that special spot. | | 08/06/2005 | 341 |
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 | http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0009153 | | 08/06/2005 | 858 |
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 | The over 30km long Ijsselmeer Dam in the Netherlands goes from Den Oever (North Holland) to Kornwerderzand (Friesland). Build from 1927 to 1932. |  | 08/06/2005 | 545 |
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 | The Saylorville Dam operates in conjunction with Lake Red Rock to minimize downstream flooding on the Des Moines River, and eventually the Mississippi River . Since 1977, operation of Saylorville Reservoir has resulted in an estimated flood damage savings of $174 million to the city of Des Moines and areas below the reservoir. In addition, the summer and winter recreational, interpretive, and c... |  | 08/06/2005 | 328 |
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 | http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0001043
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin | | 08/06/2005 | 294 |
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 | http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0000453
2 subwaytrains (line U1/U15) are visible.
the right one is bound for "Krumme Lanke"(U1) or "Uhlandstr."(U15) station,
the left one is bound for "Warschauer Str." (U1/U15) station.
follow the rails, more trains are visible and you will see where the trains are going underground. | | 08/06/2005 | 287 |
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 | Glienicke Bridge was the scene of exchanges of secret agents. It was one of the few places in the world where the United States and the Soviet Union stood directly opposite each other. And so deals could be made here without any of their allies having any say in the matter.
This bridge between West-Berlin and the former DDR was a hotspot of cold-war times. Spies were frequently exchang... | | 08/06/2005 | 435 |
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 | New Tacoma Narrows Bridge | | 08/06/2005 | 889 |
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