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Famous bridges, dams and canals from around the world |
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 | Wikipedia entry on London's Millennium Bridge. |  | 08/06/2005 | 300 | 
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 | This bridge is a walking only bridge that connects Portland, PA to Columbia, NJ. It used to be a covered bridge before a flood hit. |  | 08/05/2005 | 199 |
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 | Originally build with 4 lanes, 2 each way, it is now 8 lanes.
If you zoom in you can see the additional lanes.
They are known as the "Nippon Clip Ons" as they were prefabricated in Japan, barged to NZ, and lifted into place. |  | 08/05/2005 | 380 |
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 | The Schwarzenbach Talsperre is one of the largest German artificial lakes |  | 08/05/2005 | 312 |
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 | Unfortunately, the GE image doesn't do this stunning bridge justice. There is, however, a nice photo available on the Wikipedia site.
The Alex Fraser Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Fraser River and connects Richmond with North Delta in the Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia. The b... | | 08/05/2005 | 291 |
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 | Wedged into a deep sandstone gorge on the Colorado River, Glen Canyon Dam backs up water fo more than 180 miles to form beautiful Lake Powell. |  | 08/03/2005 | 2,642 |
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 | The Tower Bridge in London - Tower Bridge has stood over the River Thames in London since 1894. | | 08/03/2005 | 1,566 |
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 | The Cape May Canal was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the second world war as a protected route to avoid German submarines operating off Cape May Point and to become part of the Intracoastal Waterway System (ICW). The canal extends about three miles from Cape May Harbor to the Delaware Bay. | | 08/03/2005 | 235 |
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 | This is a large dam near Korla, China
Notice the large writing on the wall of the dam | | 08/03/2005 | 596 |
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 | In 1945, the state highway departments of Delaware and New Jersey authorized construction of a Delaware River crossing between New Castle and Pennsville. On July 13, 1946, Congress authorized construction of the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Construction of the first Delaware Memorial Bridge span began on February 1, 1949.
From tower to tower, the main span of the Delaware Memorial Bridge me... | | 08/03/2005 | 277 |
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 | Another baily bridge | | 08/03/2005 | 191 |
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 | Baily Bridge with traffic on it | | 08/03/2005 | 209 |
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 | Very cool floating bridge located in Brookfield, Vermont. The bridge is supported by some sort of pontoons. When driven on, car tires get wet as bridge sinks a bit. A little scary at first, but still really neat! | | 08/02/2005 | 326 |
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 | Dingmans Bridge, located in Dingmans Ferry, PA. This is the last privately owned bridge on the Delaware River. The bridge is quite old and has wood plank flooring that rattles when driven on. A person stands in the road, on the PA side and collects a 50 cent toll for each direction. | | 08/02/2005 | 231 |
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 | The Ponte Vecchio, literally "Old Bridge," is a famous medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for having numerous shops (mainly jewelers) built along it. It is Europe's oldest segmental arch bridge.
Believed to have been first built in Roman times, it was originally made of wood. After being destroyed by a flood in 1333 it was rebuilt in 1345, this time in... |  | 08/02/2005 | 499 |
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 | Connection between Denmark and Sweden. West of the island the connection is a tunnel, below and East of the island is Oeresund Bridge, 16 km long, finished in 2000.
Information by Claudio Marchesin:
In 1991, the governments of Denmark and Sweden agreed to build a bridge to connect the two countries across the Oresund Strait. The 16-kilometer-long Oresund Link b... | | 08/02/2005 | 680 |
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 | A drawbridge in up-position. | | 08/01/2005 | 431 |
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 | Fraenkisches Seenland Staudammsystem
http://www.seenland-online.de/seenland/4geschichte_01.asp
http://www.brombachsee.com/Brombachsee_Geschichte_web/
http://www.fraenkische-seen.de/Lage/Karte_A-B-See/K_Brombachsee/k_brombachsee.htm
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 | The River Thames flood Barrier which is the flood defense for London. One section can be seen "Raised". Protects London from flooding during a high tide. | | 07/31/2005 | 650 |
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 | The Lingqu Canal, dug in 214 B.C., is one of the three big water conservation projects of ancient China and the oldest existing canal in the world.It extends for 66 kilometers in Xing'an County to link up the Xiangjiang and Li rivers and the Changjiang and Zhujiang river systems. | | 07/31/2005 | 253 |
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 | The Kiel Canal (in German Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a 98 kilometre long waterway linking the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. An average of 280 nautical miles is saved by using the Kiel Canal instead of going around Jutland. This not only saves time, it avoids potentially dangerous storm-prone seas. It is the world's busiest artificial wate... | | 07/31/2005 | 454 |
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 | The Kiel Canal (in German Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a 98 kilometre long waterway linking the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. An average of 280 nautical miles is saved by using the Kiel Canal instead of going around Jutland. This not only saves time, it avoids potentially dangerous storm-prone seas. It is the world's busiest artificial wate... | | 07/31/2005 | 363 |
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 | The Nurek dam in Tajikistan is 300 meters (984 feet) tall and at the moment (9/2005) the highest dam of the world (the Rogun dam (335 meters / 1,099 feet) still is under construction). |  | 07/31/2005 | 1,469 |
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 | Eisenhower Parkway - Triborough Bridge
Eisenhower Parkway runs from Roseland, NJ to Livingston NJ. It was supposed to continue on and attach to Route 24 in Chatham, NJ, which is where you see this bridge to nowhere. The cloverleaf is fully graded and includes curbing and drainage.
AT the other end of Eisenhower, it was supposed to attach to Route 46 in West Caldwell, NJ. Co... | | 07/31/2005 | 375 |
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 | I have attached for the Itaipu Dam an overlay with a better resolution than GoogleEarth original | | 07/30/2005 | 1,259 |
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