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The god Heimdallr stands before the rainbow bridge while blowing his horn (1905) by Emil Doepler. In Norse mythology, Bifröst (/ ˈ b ɪ v r ɒ s t / ⓘ [1]), also called Bilröst, is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (Earth) and Asgard, the realm of the gods.
The Duge Bridge (), also called the Beipanjiang Bridge, is a four-lane cable-stayed bridge on the border between the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan in China. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It spans the deep gorge of the Nizhu River (a tributary of the Beipan ), near the town of Duge.
The Old Bedford River, photographed from the bridge at Welney, Norfolk (2008); the camera is looking downstream, south-west of the bridge. The Bedford Level experiment was a series of observations carried out along a 6-mile (10 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the Cambridgeshire Fens in the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries to deny the curvature ...
Rainbow Bridge: United States, Utah, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area: 71.3: 234: Span measured by NABS, 2007. Formerly considered the 3rd longest span in the world. [15] 12: external image: Great Arch of Getu: China, Guizhou, Getu Valley National Park: 70.1: 230: Span measured by NABS, 2013 and 2015. [16] 13: Sipapu Natural Bridge
An embankment is a raised wall, bank or mound made of earth or stones, that are used to hold back water or carry a roadway. A road , railway line , or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain , the alternatives being either to have an ...
The threat to the bridge accelerated after a bout of heavy rain and flooding pummeled the Midwest for days. Rushing waters from the Blue Earth River have already left a trail of debris and ...
This list of tallest bridges includes bridges with a structural height of at least 200 metres (660 ft). The structural height of a bridge is the maximum vertical distance from the uppermost part of a bridge, such as the top of a bridge tower, to the lowermost exposed part of the bridge, where its piers, towers, or mast pylons emerge from the surface of the ground or water.
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