at a quaint town which is halfway along the Florida Keys. It's called Marathon, and I do credit it to the famous and wondrous Seven Mile Bridge. It should get billing as one of the 7 Wonders In Our Manmade World, and you'll see beautiful watery scenes on both sides yet in different colors of blues and greens! Serenely breath-taking as the bridge goes from miles of flat driving over shallow water to arching up high in the sky just as you embrace Marathon. Another thing I've never experienced
The bridges of the ancient city of Königsberg posed a famous and almost problematic challenge a few centuries ago. But this isn’t just about the math problem; it’s also a story about a famous Swiss mathematician named Leonhard Euler who founded the study of topology and graph theory by solving this problem. The effects of this problem have lasted centuries, and have helped develop several parts of our understanding of mathematics. We don’t hear too much about Euler, but he is one of the most important
Königsberg Bridge Problem. The town of Königsberg was cut into four separate land masses by the river Pregel (Green). At the time, Königsberg was a large trading city, valuable because of its position on the river. The prosperity of the city allowed the people to build seven bridges so citizens could traverse through these four separate land masses with ease. Each bridge had a name, which included Connecting Bridge, Honey Bridge, High Bridge, Blacksmith’s Bridge, Merchant’s Bridge, Wooden Bridge, and Green
the 14th Street Bridge and ended in the Potomac River in Washington DC at approximately 1601 e.s.t. The aircraft was a Boeing 737-222 and operated by Air Florida. Air Florida Flight 90 (N62AF) was set to depart from Washington National Airport with a destination of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, with a layover at Tampa International airport. Flight 90 had 74 passengers and five crew members on board. When the aircraft crashed into the bridge it struck seven vehicles which resulted
of my best friends, who also has a ski, go out almost everyday in the summer. We would sometimes even wake up around six o'clock in the morning just to ride the glossy surf at Sandy Hook. There was one great day I had on the ski… It was around seven in the morning when I heard my phone ring. It was my buddy Jared waking me up to tell me to meet him at the Channel Club Marina to go out on our jetskis. I told him I would meet him there in about a half-hour. When I got to the marina Jared told me
1857. It was later improved and expanded according to Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s Greensward Plan, after which it was reopened in 1873. Central Park is comprised of 341 hectares (843 acres). It is 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) long and (0.8 kilometers) 0.5 mile wide. Central Park initially consisted of 315 hectares (778 acres) when it was first opened in 1857. The Park’s 341 hectares (843 acres) include 55 hectares (136 acres) of woodlands, 101 hectares (250 acres) of lawns, and 61 hectar
concrete over two thousand one hundred years ago. The Romans were known to contribute to public discourse for writing. Rome engineering has inspired the Romans to build bridges and more. Ancient Rome was the wellspring for many modern government. The Roman empire was really big, it encompasses nearly, one point seven million square miles. These Roman roads which are still used today, are constructed by dirt, gravel and bricks. Romans worked in farms too because of all the tractors and tools they used
participate in the 5k, I would have to at least be able to run a mile. I worked on my running all summer, getting faster and going farther, when it hit me that what I'm really doing is the sport called cross country. I asked my mom if I could join, knowing she probably wouldn't let me, when she said yes! A couple of months later, the first cross country meet came up. I hadn't practiced as much as I should have, having run my first full two miles only the night before. We walked the course and then began
Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located 96 miles south of Seattle and 53 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon. The mountain is part of the Cascade Range. It is most famous for a catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980. That eruption was the most deadly and economically destructive volcanic eruption in the history of the United States. 57 people were killed, and 200 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways and 185 miles (300 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption blew the top
killed, wounded, and captured. The bulk of these occurred in the British 1st Airborne Division which began the battle with 10,600 men and saw 1,485 killed and 6,414 captured. German losses numbered between 7,500 and 10,000. Having failed to capture the bridge over the Lower Rhine at Arnhem, the operation was deemed a failure as the subsequent offensive into Germany could not proceed. The failure of Market-Garden has been attributed to a multitude of factors ranging from intelligence failures, overly optimistic
part of Montgomery's operation was to lay a carpet with the First Allied Airborne Army to seize seven canal and river bridges in Holland as well as the very important bridge, in terms of supply across the lower Rhine at town of Arnhem . The Garden part of the operation was to have, the British Armoured Corps rapidly moving 60 miles along the narrow corridor crossing & securing the captured bridges to finally join the airborne forces in Arnhem. A. 1. Purpose The principal objective of
destroy everything that comes in its path. Meteorologists use the speed of the winds to classify the strength of tornadoes on the Fujita-Pearson scale. The weakest tornadoes, F0, have wind speeds from 65-85 miles per hour, all the way to an F5 tornado, with winds in excess of 200 miles per hour. On the afternoon of Monday May 3, two air masses met over central Oklahoma. One of the air masses was warm, moist air traveling north from the Gulf of Mexico. The other was cold dry air moving west across
Helens tallied up to be the most deadly and destructive eruption the United States had ever seen. “Approximately fifty-seven people were killed directly from the blast and 200 houses, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed; two people were killed indirectly in accidents that resulted from poor visibility, and two more suffered fatal heart attacks from shoveling ash (Wikipedia
Why doesn’t Australia have volcanoes and New Zealand does? Australia doesn't have any active volcanoes because Australia is on one single tectonic plate (see picture) There is currently around about 57-65 volcanoes in Australia and out of these, only one is active. No eruptions have been recorded in the past century. Volcanoes occur on the tectonic plate boundaries. Because Australia is in the middle of the Australian plate and it is impossible for any new volcanoes to form. There is evidence that
History of Bridge Throughout history there have been numerous instances in which bridges have failed after years of service or even during the construction stage. Failure can be defined as not performing the intended function. This may mean a collapse or something less severe such as a long, straight span that causes drivers to fall asleep. In each of these cases, engineers learned something new about the analysis process or the materials. Throughout history, a catastrophic bridge failure has occurred
2,500-acre island property. Little Talbot has grown larger than Big Talbot Island over the years. Erosion washed sands from the previously larger site and deposited them on Little Talbot. Just northeast of Jacksonville, this park contains five miles of unobstructed coastline. Five boardwalks provide access to white sand beaches, sand bars and clear water. And, the quiet, not crowded shoreline offers plenty of family fun. THINGS TO DO Soaking in the glorious Florida rays is not the only adventure
path on which they were riding was nothing more than an ordinary trail in an ordinary town. Then around the five mile marker they would see the massive Belmar Bridge rising in the distance. Today the bridge serves as a reminder of our region’s rich history, harkening back to the days when oil wells dotted the landscape and railroads crisscrossed the countryside. At about the eight mile marker, a large rock covered in intricate symbols and markings juts out of the river. Centuries ago, Indian God Rock
The mostly dry Gila River today hardly resembles the unruly, historic stream that came roaring out of the Black Mountain Range in western New Mexico, crossing the Great Divide and then Arizona before ending its 650-mile journey by joining the Colorado River at Yuma. In those days, before construction of eastern Arizona’s Coolidge Dam and an irrigation-canal system commandeered the Gila’s water, boats navigated the river, which varied in width from 150 to 1,200 feet with depths ranging from 2 to
Involvement of ARRA in the Economy Seven years ago, when Obama first entered the office as a president, he made a promise to the people of the United States. This promise was called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) also known as the stimulus, which had $787 billion bill intended to stimulate the economy(Umhoefer). This massive budget program enacted by Mr. Obama, a democrat, faced its critics and the republicans, but did it accomplish/improve the economy in the United States
worth the effort. It began early on the Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend heading off in search of the source of the river with a longtime friend, John Hughes. We traveled to the towns of Blue River and Daisy Hill, which are separated by a small bridge over the river, which is little more than a stream or creek at this point. The source of this branch of the river appeared to be on private property, so we abandoned our quest. After participating in the Steamboat Days parade in Jeffersonville, we