The Dali cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing it to be collapsed.
How has bridge design evolved since the Baltimore bridge was built? The Francis Scott Key Bridge was designed in the early 1970s. Construction started in 1972, and it opened to traffic in 1977. This preceded the1980 collapse of the Sunshine Skywayin Florida, which was caused by a shipcollisi...
Photo: One of the world's greatest bridges. Over 150 years after it was completed in 1859, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's amazingRoyal Albert Bridgestill carries railroad trains 30m (100ft) over the River Tamar, separating Cornwall and Devon in England. But is it a suspension bridge, or is it...
The bridge is the outermost of three toll crossings of Baltimore's Harbor and the final link in Interstate 695, known in the region as the Baltimore Beltway, which links Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The bridge was built after the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel reached capacity and experienced h...
One of America's first tunnels was the Paw Paw Tunnel, built in West Virginia between 1836 and 1850 as part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Although the canal no longer runs through the Paw Paw, at 3,118 feet long it is still one of the longest canal tunnels in the United States....
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The standoff at Gate 36:Texas sends in the troops to block migrants from seeking asylum. The search has been called off assix people who plummeted from a Baltimore bridge are presumed dead. Would California bridges stand up to a direct hit?We as...
Cyclops— a 540-foot- (164-meter-) long naval vessel outfitted with 50-caliber guns — took on a load of 10,000 tons (9,072 metric tons) of manganese ore in Brazil, and then sailed north to Barbados, where it was resupplied for its nine-day voyage to Baltimore harbor. But after ...
"I was born on the border. I'm always trying to adapt to Mexican or American culture, growing up in the middle of those two worlds," Barrera tells GRAMMY.com. "This is what I always end up doing in the songs and with the artists I work with, I adapt to them, I adapt to their...
But, the connection to the bird doesn't stop there.Baltimore oriolesare commonly found in the North Eastern and Mid-Atlantic parts of the United States. The bird was named because its orange and black (for males) coloring resembled those on the coat-of-arms of Lord...