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A viaduct is a specific type of bridge that consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road. Typically a viaduct connects two points of roughly equal elevation, allowing direct overpass across a wide valley, road, river, or other low-lying terrain features and obstacles.
A Dictionary of Military Architecture: Fortification and Fieldworks from the Iron Age to the Eighteenth Century by Stephen Francis Wyley, drawings by Steven Lowe; Victorian Forts glossary Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. A more comprehensive version has been published as A Handbook of Military Terms by David Moore at the same site
Bayou Teche (Louisiana French: Bayou Têche) is a 125-mile-long (201 km) [1] waterway in south central Louisiana in the United States.Bayou Teche was the Mississippi River's main course when it developed a delta about 2,800 to 4,500 years ago.
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car is a children's story written by Ian Fleming and illustrated by John Burningham.It was initially published in three volumes, the first of which was released on 22 October 1964, before being published as one book.
The Aztec city-state of Tenochtitlan had causeways supporting roads and aqueducts. One of the oldest engineered roads yet discovered is the Sweet Track in England.Built in 3807 or 3806 BC, [5] the track was a walkway consisting mainly of planks of oak laid end-to-end, supported by crossed pegs of ash, oak, and lime, driven into the underlying peat.
At only 16 feet wide, the bridge was too narrow for a US numbered highway (in fact, even when built in 1929 it would have been too narrow, as the US highway system required two 9 foot lanes). A dam and replacement bridge were built and the river was rerouted. [3] The bridge is 1,184 feet (361 m) long in total, with a deck width of 16 feet (4.9 m).
Australian soldiers walking along duckboards during the Battle of Passchendaele. A duckboard is a type of boardwalk placed over muddy and wet ground. [8] During World War I, duckboards were used to line the bottom of trenches on the Western Front because these were regularly flooded, [9] and mud and water would lie in the trenches for months on end.
Land bridges of Japan, several land bridges which connected Japan to Russia and Korea at various times in history; De Geer Land Bridge, a route that connected Fennoscandia to northern Greenland; Doggerland, a former landmass in the southern North Sea which connected the island of Great Britain to continental Europe during the last ice age