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    The North Pole Road Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in rural Brown County in the U.S. state of Ohio. The 169-foot-long bridge crosses Eagle Creek approximately...
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  • to Covered bridges in Ohio. Ohio Covered Bridges List Ohio Covered Bridge Homepage Ohio Historic Bridge Association Ohio Covered Bridges "The Covered Bridges...
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  • Emperor of the North Pole is a 1973 American action adventure film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, and...
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    smear the pole holding the street sign (pictured) at the road's southern end with grease or oil to prevent theft (Other signs along the road are in vertical...
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    Forth Rail Bridge (to distinguish it from the adjacent Forth Road Bridge), although this is not its official name. Construction of the bridge began in 1882...
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    A Bering Strait crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel that would span the relatively narrow and shallow Bering Strait between the Chukotka Peninsula...
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    A utility pole, commonly referred to as a transmission pole, telephone pole, telecommunication pole, power pole, hydro pole, telegraph pole, or telegraph...
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  • Thumbnail for Tay Bridge disaster
    Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent European windstorm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British...
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    records. Floodwaters covered large swaths of I-40 and US 74, resulted in numerous road closures, and washed away some bridges and roads. This, as well as...
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    by the Plains Indians of North America. The basic construction consists of a platform or netting mounted on two long poles, lashed in the shape of an...
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    elevation, bridges and accessory constructions such as retaining walls, and water drainage systems. It was based on two north–south roads: one along the...
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    is covered with water, except for several narrow streams which pass through the village. Cuba Lake, a large water body, is two miles (3 km) north of the...
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    Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (category Road bridges in India)
    and the world's 12th longest sea bridge. The bridge begins in Sewri, South Mumbai, crosses Thane Creek north of Elephanta Island, and terminates at Chirle...
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    jury. Tabiat Bridge was designed by Leila Araghian as part of a local competition for the design of a bridge to connect two parks in north Tehran which...
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    2024 Bank of America Roval 400 (category 2024 in sports in North Carolina)
    at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested over 109 laps on the 2.32-mile (3.73 km) road course, it was the 32nd race of the 2024...
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    wrapped around a telephone pole. About one inch (25 mm) of asphalt was scoured off one road. Twelve people died in Bridge Creek, nine of whom were in...
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    screening the road bridge from the Poles. The Polish were well dug in at Driel, however, and German armour was unable to manoeuvre off of the main roads to attack...
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  • Thumbnail for B roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme
    B roads are numbered routes in Great Britain of lesser importance than A roads. See the article Great Britain road numbering scheme for the rationale behind...
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    of six times per day to allow ship traffic to pass the bridge. The bridge originally had pole lights along the entire stretch, which were later abandoned...
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    limbs and other plants woven through these poles in order to make a solid wall. Only one such screen on the bridge of 2,200 m would thus have had an area...
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    The Portal Bridge is a two-track rotating swing-span railroad bridge over the Hackensack River in Kearny and Secaucus, New Jersey, United States. It is...
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    Operation Market Garden (category History of North Brabant)
    single road surrounded by flood plain on both sides. The plan anticipated that they would cover the 103 km (64 miles) from their start to the bridge across...
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    of Kulm), and the Swedes from the north. The French had around 160,000 soldiers along with 700 guns plus 15,000 Poles, 10,000 Italians, and 40,000 Germans...
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    a vehicle collides with a bridge, overpass, or tunnel structure. Bridge-strike road accidents, in which an over-height vehicle collides with the underside...
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  • Thumbnail for Hell Gate Bridge
    Hell Gate Bridge (originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge) is a railroad bridge in New York City, New York, United States. The bridge carries...
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    Robert Stephenson (category British bridge engineers)
    high level road and rail bridge across the Tyne at Newcastle and the Royal Border Bridge across the Tweed at Berwick. The High Level Bridge is 1,372 feet...
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  • spent eight weeks with Ralph Plaisted in his first attempt to reach the North Pole by snowmobile, which resulted in the documentary To the Top of the World...
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    [citation needed] Wooden timbers for railroad ties, trestles, bridges, firewood, and telegraph poles were harvested in California and transported to the project...
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    2023 Bank of America Roval 400 (category 2023 in sports in North Carolina)
    Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. It was contested over 109 laps on the 2.28-mile (3.67 km) road course. It was the 32nd race of the...
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    Aqueduct Bridge. Conceptual images show that a pole supporting the gondola's cables would rise from the bridge's remaining pier. Canal bridge Photograph...
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