#historical bridge

[bane-huntress]

Twizel Bridge

We kinda found this bridge by accident while crossing a more modern bridge. And Tia wanted to check it out, and was kinda worth it.

It’s a stones throw away from the Scottish border! It’s not every day you can go over such an old bridge and it actually have an interpretation board.

Just a little something different. We didn’t go up the hill to the castle on the hill, I couldn’t and even Tia thought it was too bloody cold to go check it out! (Which is a shame as it looked cool)

Enjoy! The bridge!

This is the way up to the bastle on the hill!

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Huế, Vietnam. Credit to itscthinh (Instagram).

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This railway bridge crosses the Wiesent river and is called Neideck Bridge because it lies at the foot of the Neideck castle ruins. It is regularly crossed by the historic steam locomotive on its way to Ebermannstadt.

One might come up with the idea of ​​crossing this bridge on foot on days when the locomotive isn't in operation and crossing to the other side on the tracks to shorten a few kilometers. But that would be a little crazy, wouldn't it?

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Babb’s Bridge in Gorham, Maine, has the oldest history of the state’s remaining covered bridges, one that dates back to 1840. The wooden bridge also has a weight limit of three tons. The driver behind the wheel of a Ford F-750 thought he could make it, but alas—those trucks can be over 9,000 pounds empty.

Based on the images, the bridge gave way almost immediately under the weight of the truck.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/overweight-ford-f-750-plunges-through-historic-wooden-bridge-in-maine

[sir20]

Béziers by sir20

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Tower Bridge,London UK 🇬🇧

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Bridge in Florence, Tuscany region of Italy

Italian vintage postcard, mailed in 1923 to Grandvilliers, France

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Medieval bridge in Vallfogona de Ripollès (Comarques Gironines, Catalonia), built in the 14th century by order of the lords of Milany when they moved to a new castle on the other side of the stream.

Photo from Ripollès Turisme.

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Symmetry

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Moon 🌕 !.

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Musket Balls Recovered From Site of First-Day Revolutionary War Battle

Almost 250 years ago, British soldiers marched in search of military supplies stockpiled by colonial rebels in Massachusetts and tension turned to bloodshed with battles at the towns of Lexington and Concord that began the Revolutionary War.

The fighting in Concord on April 19, 1775, was immortalized by legendary essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson as “The Shot Heard Round the World.”

National Park Service archaeologists recently found five musket balls fired that day by colonial militia members, according to a news release from the federal agency.

“It’s incredible that we can stand here and hold what amounts to just a few seconds of history that changed the world almost 250 years ago,” Jarrad Fuoss, a ranger at Minute Man National Historical Park and a historic weapons specialist, said in the release. “These musket balls can be considered collectively as ‘The Shot Heard Round the World,’ and it is incredible that they have survived this long.”

The projectiles were found near the site of the North Bridge where British soldiers faced off against the militia members in the famed three-minute battle in Concord, the park service said.

“Further analysis of the musket balls indicates that each one was fired from the opposite side of the river and not dropped during the process of reloading,” park service officials said.

The recently discovered five musket balls will be on display at the park Saturday.

The fighting that led to the birth of the United States began that 1775 day with a short skirmish in Lexington, Massachusetts, in which eight militia members were killed and 10 were wounded.

The British continued to move to Concord to search a home for military supplies, leaving a contingent of about 100 soldiers at the North Bridge. As militia members approached, shots were fired by the British troops.

Historians say 18 men were killed or wounded in the battle at the bridge. The fighting that day at Lexington, Concord and other sites took the lives of more than 120 people.

By Steve Almasy.

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Isle of Skye, 2017 (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) by Phil Gyford

Via Flickr:

(1) Eilean Donan Castle (2) Cat in Broadford (3) Path to Coral Beach (4) Abhainn Choishleadar, Edinbane (5) Scorrybreac (6) Neist Point Lighthouse       

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Since 1894

Tower Bridge - London, United Kingdom

[borgialucrezia]

the borgias is my favorite show and i think it's the best show ever made and all. however, there's just this one aspect that is genuinely hilarious to me and i mostly criticize the show for. the writers suddenly trying to make the viewers massively despise juan by turning against him and disingenuously writing him in his final moments so the watchers won't miss him or sympathize with him by making him a walking danger as an excuse to kill him off and prop up cesare's character. they wanted the audience to root for cesare at juan's expense and make his death seem necessary lol. they truly thought they served with this one, like maybe juan's character was shamefully abandoned by the writers (as well as his family except for rodrigo) but david oakes had many people sold with the way he played him to perfection, improvising and making juan remarkable, tremendous, and humane. the show is obviously a classic masterpiece, but in my opinion about the juan part, simply rushing the writing of a tragic dying character on a show for weak reasons is pure disrespect.

[labyrinthofstreams]

Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy, c. 1899-1901.

[sir20]

Inside the Valentré bridge, Cahors by sir20