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The Liberty Bend Bridge, in northeastern Sugar Creek, carries Route 291 across the Missouri River. The northbound bridge was built in 1949 when a new channel for the river was completed, and replaced the 1927 Liberty Bend Bridge which was about two miles to the north and crossed over the former river channel.
A map of Japan currently stored at Kanazawa Bunko depicts Japan and surrounding countries, both real and imaginary. The date of creation is unknown but probably falls within the Kamakura period . It is one of the oldest surviving Gyōki-type maps of Japan.
In the late 1940s, plans were developed to relocate the Liberty Bend was about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of where it was previously located. Because of this, the part of Missouri Route 291 in the area was to be demolished, and a new bridge was to be built to replace it. The Mount Vernon Bridge Company was contracted to construct it.
The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional daimyo, or feudal lords.
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The voyage was beset by sickness and poor weather, but eventually in 1600, after 19 months at sea, Adams’s ship laid anchor off the island of Kyūshū, Japan. It was the first European ship ever ...
Ino Tadataka: Complete map of greater Japan coastal area; large map near Atsumi Peninsula. Inō Tadataka (伊能忠敬, 1745–1818) started learning Western astronomy when he was 52 years old. On order of the shogun he dedicated 16 years between 1800 and 1817 to survey all Japanese coastlines, but died before a complete map of Japan could be ...
Han (Japanese: 藩, "domain") is a Japanese historical term for the estate of a daimyo in the Edo period (1603–1868) and early Meiji period (1868–1912). [1] Han or Bakufu-han (daimyo domain) [2] served as a system of de facto administrative divisions of Japan alongside the de jure provinces until they were abolished in the 1870s.