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The Niger River, Kennedy Bridge and some of Niamey City Centre (right), taken from the roof of the UNV building, looking northwest. May 2006. The Kennedy Bridge is the main crossing for the Niger River in Niamey, Niger. It was built in 1970, and named for United States President John F. Kennedy. Its construction enabled Niamey to expand onto ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 18:11, 24 February 2019: 4,288 × 2,124 (1.32 MB): NigerTZai {{Information |description ={{en|1=Pont Kennedy (Kennedy Bridge) over the Niger River, in Niamey, Niger.}} {{fr|1=Le Pont Kennedy sur le fleuve Niger, à Niamey, au Niger.}} |date =2019-02-24 |source ={{own}} |author =NigerTZai }} Looking to the northewest from the terrace at the ...
Niamey in December 1930. The large house in the centre is the French governor's residence. Air photo taken by Swiss pilot and photographer Walter Mittelholzer.. Probably, Niamey originated in the 18th century as a cluster of small villages (Gaweye, Kalley, Maourey, Zongo and Foulani Koira). [5]
Kennedy Bridge may refer to: Kennedy Bridge (Austria) , across the Wien river in Vienna, Austria Kennedy Bridge (Adana) , crossing the Seyhan River in Adana , Turkey
The Hyannis Armory which was the site of Kennedy's presidential acceptance speech is now owned by the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts and is open to the public. Kennedy was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. Since 1964, Kennedy's portrait has appeared on the half-dollar coin, replacing Benjamin Franklin.
The Ethel Kennedy Bridge is a beam bridge built in 2004 that carries Benning Road over the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. It is an eight-lane bridge with pedestrian lanes on both sides. A separate Washington Metro bridge carrying the Blue, Orange and Silver lines crosses over the bridge near its western terminus, and parallels the bridge ...
In 1814, Captain Doughty's volunteers were designated as the Navy Yard Rifles and assigned to serve under the overall command of Major Robert Brent (1764-1819, served 1802-1812), commanding the 2nd Regiment of the District of Columbia Militia (who was also the first mayor of Washington City 1802-1812, in the federal capital city in the District ...
In 2007, the District Council voted to rename the Benning Road Viaduct and Bridge (by then called the "Benning Road Bridge") over the railroad tracks between 34th Street, N. E., and Minnesota Avenue, N. E. the Lorraine H. Whitlock Memorial Bridge. In 2020, the name was removed from the bridge by the same act that renamed a DC School for Whitlock.