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 | Tour de France 2005 route map
Stage 18 - Thursday, July 21: Albi - Mende, 189 km
After the Pyrenees stages, the Tour goes over even another mountains - Massif Central in the middle of France. And this stage is for long escaper... in 1995, Laurent Jalabert won Stage12, after a long escape and climb over Côte de la Croix Neuve, finished in Mende - it was a memorable Bastill... |  | 07/18/2005 | 2,006 | 
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 | The Highest Bridge in the World. The tallest will be 240 meters high. Overall height an outstanding 336.4 meters. This project will consist of seven separate cable-stays.
http://www.a75.com/viaducengl.html |  | 11/14/2006 | 475 |
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 | The Bebresh Viaduct is part of the Bulgarian Hemus Motorway. The Viaduct is a favoured place for bungee jumping due to its height |  | 04/09/2007 | 225 |
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 | The Borovnica viaduct, sadly no longer standing, was built in 1856 on the Südbahn or Southern Railway, the first railway line linking Vienna to Trieste. It was one of the most imposing bridges ever built in Slovenia and in its day one of the most imposing bridge structures the world had ever seen. The only bridge larger than the Borovnica viaduct was the Göltzschtal viaduct at near Plauen in Ge... | | 12/14/2007 | 225 |
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 | Located in Aberta, Canada, this 1600 meter long iron viaduct is a staggering 96 meters high. More facts and picture inside. |  | 04/30/2006 | 263 |
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 | Highest viaduct in the world.
Key numbers for the records :
- Length: 2,460 m
- Width: 32 m
- Maximum height: 343 m, i.e. 20 m higher than the Eiffel Tower
- Slope: 3.015%, rising north-south in the direction Clermont-Ferrand – Béziers
- Curvature: 20 km
- Height of the tallest pier (P2): 245 m
- Height of the pylons: 87 m
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 | 7 June 1944
Major Dooley celebrated his promotion by leading the first successful Group mission ever flown by this Group against a railroad viaduct. The target was at Antheor, France. A high overcast made it necessary to drop the bomb run to 18,000 feet. Using 1,000 pounders the bombardiers turned in a score of 49 percent in placing several hits directly on the viaduct. All plan... | | 05/14/2007 | 327 |
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 | The Glenfinnan Viaduct near Fort William, featured in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. |  | 12/12/2005 | 930 |
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 | Morlaix Viaduct, 29 January 1943
12 Bostons bombed a railway viaduct at Morlaix and 2 of 12 Venturas dispatched bombed a steelworks at Ijmuiden. 1 Boston lost. |  | 10/20/2005 | 312 |
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 | 73 Mosquitos to Berlin, 6 to Bremen, 4 to Erfurt and 3 on 'siren tours' of various German towns, 35 Lancasters to railway viaducts at Altenbeken and Bielefeld, 48 RCM sorties, 23 Mosquito patrols, 19 aircraft on Resistance operations. 1 Mosquito from the Erfurt raid crashed in Belgium.
Also there is the viaduct in a side view after the attack and the kind of bomb which destroyed it. | | 10/24/2005 | 843 |
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 | 4 June 1944
The target for this mission was a pinpoint target in the Alps Mountains. A railroad bridge and viaduct at Orelle, Italy. The Group maintained its poor record against bridges by missing the target because of the failure of the formation leaders to properly identify the target. | | 05/14/2007 | 305 |
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 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunkhannock_Viaduct
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholson%2C_Pennsylvania
which explains:
A local landmark, the Tunkhannock Viaduct or Nicholson Bridge has been a center of lore and legend since its completion. The legend of a person being buried in the Nicholson Bridge has been etched in the mind of locals for years. Another legend ... | | 12/18/2007 | 296 |
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