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The cloudy day doesn t last for an entire month --John S. Quarterman
Pictures by for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, .
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Sometimes all it takes is a little local knowledge to reveal some hidden gems around where I grew up in Northen New South Wales.
Killen Falls is a short drive inland from Lennox Head and definitely a place I will make sure I re-vist.
On another note some locals were actually catching some fish in the reservoir that the falls pools into!
Taken in FNC Australia. Best Viewed Large!
This man was sharing tales of history, Native American culture and living skills. I always find it very interesting to learn more and could listen for hours.
This was the 7th Annual Gathering of the Tribes at Brown's Farm located at 890 Luther Road, East Greenbush NY 12061.
If you wish to attend next year you can learn more at gatheringofthetribes.weebly.com/
by Tech. Sgt. Benjamin Rojek
Defense Media Activity
5/4/2012 - FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. -- Walking almost 90 miles, 36 Airmen completed the Air Advisor Memorial Ruck March from New York City to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 26-27.
The march, which started at One World Trade Center and ended at the Air Advisor Academy, was in remembrance of the deaths of nine U.S. air advisors in Afghanistan.
On the morning of April 27, 2011, an Afghan Air Force lieutenant colonel walked into the Afghan Air Command and Control Center at the Kabul Air Command Headquarters and, without warning or provocation, opened fire, killing eight active-duty U.S. Airmen and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. Those nine service members came from various bases and specialties, but were working together for a common mission: advising the Afghan military.
"It was a unique situation," said Lt. Col. J.D. Scott II, the march coordinator and chief of core knowledge at the Air Advisor Academy. "It didn't happen for a particular base. It didn't happen for a particular squadron or base or even for a particular (Air Force Specialty Code).
"Because of that, remembering their sacrifice may not have been captured as a whole," Scott continued. "The individual would have been honored at their base, but the mission of the entire of the team would not have been recognized."
Since all of the nine went through the Air Advisor Academy, Col. John Holm, the academy's commandant, decided that would be the place to honor their sacrifice as a team, Scott said. Holm made plans to create a physical memorial, but a plethora of obstacles made it impossible to complete the memorial by the one year anniversary of the tragic event. One of the obstacles was funding.
Holm and his team came up with idea of a ruck march to both honor the fallen air advisors and act as a fundraiser to help build the physical memorial. Scott was put in charge of organizing the march and, in just two weeks, succeeded in gathering people from Dover AFB, Del., to Eielson AFB, Alaska, for the march. Each marcher knew at least one of the nine fallen air advisors in some way.
"Master Sgt. Tara Brown and Maj. Phil Ambard both lived three and four doors down from me in the dorms," said Tech. Sgt. Brian Christiansen, a photographer with the 145th Airlift Wing in Charlotte, N.C., who was deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan at the same time as the air advisors. "Both were incredibly friendly people. And I met several of them (the morning of the shooting) as I walked into my building and opened the door and they walked out."
Those personal connections to the fallen service members and their families drew the 36 marchers together, Scott said.
"They were coming in from all over," he said. "That's kind of representative of the nine that we lost. They came from all over the Air Force to serve a single mission as an air advisor. So the marchers that were honoring them came from all over the Air Force to remember them."
Each paid their own way to New York City to honor their fallen friends and show their families that they haven't forgotten their loved one's sacrifice. The event also drew in another 14 volunteers to help with everything from transportation to food to health and care coverage.
The marchers were broken up into four teams, each set to march three legs of 7.3 miles. During their leg, each marcher carried a ruck sack with a paver stone inside, each stone engraved with the name of a fallen air advisor and to be laid at the memorial on JB MDL.
Holm and his nine-person team kicked off the march at 9:11 a.m. April 26. However, rather than just start off near ground zero, the colonel wanted to do something more for his fallen comrades.
"We wanted to honor them by doing something significant, and to me starting at the top of the World Trade Center was it," Holm said. "We had those ruck sacks on the entire tour. It was all symbolic and important to us in our own personal, different ways. For me, it was probably the biggest single gesture we could do short of opening up (the academy's) memorial ourselves."
The significance of the march touched a lot of people along the way, starting with the One World Trade Center steel workers, who gave the Airmen a standing ovation as they marched through the structure. Other people along their route also showed their appreciation by stopping to give hugs, encouragement, thanks and even money toward the memorial.
As they traveled by foot from New York to New Jersey, state and local police departments provided escort, each district calling the next to inform them of what the Airmen were doing, Holm said. The marchers were even given a chance to rest and eat at the fire departments in both Elizabeth, N.J., and Jersey City, N.J. It was a sign of support of both the Airmen marching and the fallen air advisors, he said.
When the fourth team finished their last leg, the marchers were 1.1 miles from the construction site of the Air Advisor Memorial on JB MDL. All 36 marchers gathered together in formation and made their way through the base gate. What met them there was surprise to all.
"Security forces closed down the road and gave us police escort in," Scott said. "There were numerous amounts of people from the front gate to the memorial lining the street on both sides, just cheering us on in.
"The fact that the base community just embraces us and cheered us in on those final steps, it's very inspiring," he added.
It was an emotional moment for Christiansen as well. He was present at the base when the air advisors were killed and attended their dignified transfer ceremony. However, each person was laid to rest in different locations around the U.S., so he never got to have closure.
Christiansen said the real impact came when he saw the road signs leading to the installation. "That's when it really started to hit in not that we're all going to do this, but this is for real. We've done this for the families, we've done this for our fallen brothers and sister. It was pretty easy to get caught up in the emotion there.
"The ceremony of laying the bricks down was really powerful," he added. "It brought some serious closure."
For Chaplain Maj. Eric Boyer, who said the opening prayer for the stone laying ceremony, it was a bittersweet chance to pay tribute to two of the officers that he had a connection to.
"It makes me proud to know that their sacrifice will be honored and will be remembered," he said. "Every Air Advisor who comes through the academy here is going to recognize the price that has been paid by their predecessors."
Prior to entering military service, Boyer knew Lt. Col. Frank Bryant from their hometown of Knoxville, Tenn., where he served as Bryant's wrestling coach.
Boyer also served as squadron chaplain for Maj. Jeffery Ausborn while at Joint Base San Antonio in 2011, but had already changed duty station's to JB MDL when he got the word about Ausborn's death. His biggest regret was not being able to preside over his funeral service.
"It meant a lot to me to be able to say something to honor his memory here, since I wasn't able to speak at his memorial ceremony back at his home station," he said.
While the ruck march and stone-laying ceremony brought some closure for Christiansen and others, the construction of the memorial itself is still ongoing. However, between the pledges for the marchers, donations received during the march as well as T-shirt and brick sales, Holm estimated that the team has raised almost $10,000 toward the memorial just through this one event.
"We have that feeling that we did the right thing just by honoring our comrades, regardless of what money we raised," Holm said. "That was a tremendous feeling."
The Air Advisor Memorial is scheduled to be unveiled July 27. For more information on the memorial, visit www.airadvisormemorial.org
I took this photo the same time I took my "Day 5" photo for Project 365. At the time I took it, I didn't really like it. But I did some tweaking on it and I think it looks way better now than it did before.
The 2017 SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference Competition Medalists were announced Friday, June 23, 2017 at Freedom Hall in Louisville.
Health Knowledge Bowl
Team J (consisting of Alaina Gosche, Madison Jones, Jessica Holman, Alexis Herr)
High School Vanguard-Sentinel CTC-Sentinel Campus
Gold Tiffin, OH
Health Knowledge BowlTeam G (consisting of Julia Garaffa, Matthew Natividad, Parth Patel, Palak Shah)
High School Somerset County Academy of Medical Sciences
Silver Bridgewater, NJ
Health Knowledge BowlTeam D (consisting of Macy Williams, Samantha Baker, Ashley Phipps, Andrea Blochberger)
High School Eldon Career Center
Bronze Eldon, MO
Health Knowledge BowlTeam B (consisting of Megan Keene, Alexandra Stephens, Bryant Phelps, Taylor Haynes)
College Central Georgia Technical College
Gold Macon, GA
Health Knowledge BowlTeam D (consisting of Bryana Pyle, Rachel Miller, Sarah Duggan, Wesley Stiles)
College Tennessee College of Applied Tech-Murfreesboro
Silver Murfreesboro, TN
Health Knowledge BowlTeam F (consisting of Sarah Shepherd, Ashley Hobson, Sarah Brown, Hannah Johnson)
College Wilkes Community College
Bronze Wilkesboro, NC
and i think i hold the key.
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sooc (except crop) i'm considering a square crop though. yes?
i got a hair cut today.
today was the first day i've actually demonstrated lighting skills. i set up a reflector and everything! (i don't think it worked... but whatever)
OH. and if you have $50 to spend at a camera store, what would you buy? i need help.
and does anyone recommend any good photography books?
ps. i've passed 5000+ views. thank you all so much!
Elena Douglas, Chief Executive Officer, Knowledge Society, welcomes guests to the luncheon © Knowledge Society. Photograph by Rick Stevens
The Knowledge Nation 100 luncheon – on 10 December at Doltone House in Sydney – celebrated the Knowledge Nation 100. The Knowledge Nation 100 are the rock stars of Australia’s new economy – the visionaries, intellects, founders and game changers building the industries and institutions that will underwrite the nation’s future prosperity.
The luncheon was addressed by the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP.
Is hollywood really that desperate as to create a movie that is based off of a terrible book?
How many amazing books are out there that would make beautiful films? Thousands upon thousands, and they choose a 'novel' that reads like a bad fanfiction.
Whatever happened to knowledge in books? Values? Anything that you can learn from?
So here it is, it isn't much, but this is for all of the authors that wrote for a purpose. Goethe, Sartre, Nietzsche, Kant...
thanks.
House of Knowledge, by Jaume Plensa, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, in the process of being packed up to be (one assumes) shipped off to wherever it's on show next.
For photos of it while the exhibition was open see here:
seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave
"أطلب العلم من المهد إلى اللحد "
settings :
Camera Model : Canon EOS 550D
Shutter Speed : 1/160
Aperture Value: 8.0
ISO Speed : 400
model : my Sister
I hope U like it L =)
if U did Don't Forget to press (F)
And I really need YR comments
Thank you .
"ماشاء الله تبارك الله "
أتمنى تعجبكم الصورة , وبحاجه أنتقاداتكم وتعليقاتكم :)
My son Chase with Tre Cool from Green Day. I received this polaroid after i got him from the backstage area. This photo was taken at the Green Day concert - American Idiot Tour 2005 in Carson, California.
VW Golf Rallye "Rock Steady" passes on the knowledge to other car fans at the last show of the 2019 season TRAX Silverstone 2019
Forbidden Knowledge / Heft-Reihe
cover: Pete Von Sholly
Last Gasp Eco-Funnies
(Berkeley / USA; 1978)
ex libris MTP
“The only source of knowledge is experience”
~ Albert Einstein
Swift Hall was the second building erected for the Engineering Department at the University of Cincinnati. Constructed in 1926, Swift Hall was designed by Harry Hake to be fireproof, made of steel and concrete, red wire-cut brick and Terra cotta trimming. The building was the last word in architecture, design and construction methods as new inventions changed the fabric of construction.
Swift Hall, named after the generous benefactor John B. Swift, housed the electrical engineering department for the expanding engineering department. Swift was the president of the Eagle Pitcher Lead Company and donated $150,000 in memory of his brother who had been a graduate of the University. Another generous donation by John Emery enabled the University to build the building.
Like other engineering programs across the United States, the University of Cincinnati's Engineering Department competed in the burgeoning world of technology. Through the persistence of UC instructor Paul Herget, who became an astronaut, the University beat out East Schools like Yale to obtain one of the first computers utilized in colleges. The computer was an IBM 650 and allowed UC’s Engineering Department to develop the first program to teach computer programming to the visually impaired as well as those with disabilities.
In 2002 and 2003 Swift Hall, along with other buildings at UC, were renovated to include computer-based classrooms, offices and meeting spaces. Currently Swift Hall houses the Main Campus Newspaper, the News Record, offices and classrooms. On a fun side note: astronomer Paul Herget later helped design the Pringle Potato Chip.
Oringinally completed in 1926, Swift Hall is adjacent to the Steger Student Life Center and houses classrooms, lecture halls, and offices for various UC programs. glaserworks, as Architect of Record worked closely with the University and with design firm Moore Ruble Yudell to create some of UC’s earliest high-tech "digital" classrooms. These electronic classrooms have been designed to comply with specific guidelines supporting teaching and learning with technology. Nearly every student has an unobstructed view of high definition video images projected from a computer, laptop, VCR, DVD, or document camera augmented with excellent sound quality. Lighting and shades are automatically controlled for optimum viewing and note-taking. In the larger lecture rooms, multiple screens allow simultaneous viewing and recording of side-by-side images for comparison or examination i.e. a scanned photo downloaded from the web shown adjacent to a physical specimen placed under the document camera.
Already in December of the year 1678 occurred in the then suburban "Leopoldstadt" the first cases of plague, but they were covered up and trivialized by the authorities. The disease spread rapidly in other suburbs, which were outside the imperial capital. Thus, the poorer classes belonged to its first victims. Although the number of deaths from month to month rose, all warnings and criticisms of pleague doctor, Paul de Sorbait, on the inadequate situation of the medical service and the hygiene remained unheard.
The dedicated physician had already published in January 1679 a "plague-order", which provided extensive measures to protect the population during an outbreak of plague. In this plague-order Paul de Sorbait described the former knowledge about the disease and described it: "the most part of those so caught by it, with bumps, glands, swelling marks or with splenic fever, brown and black spots and kale, pest lumps in addition to great interior heat and within a few days or hours fatally ends".
In July of the same year the "spark of pestilence" (Pestilenzfunken) jumped over the city walls: A terrible and great death began within the city of Vienna. A chronicler reported, "at last she (= plague) but took the audacity, penetrated into the city itself and caused a shocking defeat among the rich and aristocratic nobility in the palaces and stately buildings. There you saw whole carts full of noble and ignoble, rich and poor, young and old of both sexes, carried out by all alleys to the door."
The people in town were full horror and panic: The bodies lay for days on the road, because there was a lack of infirmary servants and gravediggers. Quick released prisoners then took over those services. Instead of single burials large pits were created outside of the city to accommodate the dead in mass graves. Those who could afford it, fled from the city. Emperor Leopold I and his family left Vienna on 17 August. He first went on a pilgrimage to Mariazell (Styria) and then fled to Prague. As there the plague also broke out, he retreated to Linz, where he remained until the final extinction of the plague in 1680.
The exact number of people who died in 1679 from the plague in Vienna probably never will be determined. The gigantic death rates of contemporary reports, oscillating between 70000 and 120000 dead, from the still preserved coroner's reports can not be proved. According to those records, the disease about 8,000 inhabitants would kill. But it is questionable whether in the prevailing confusion all cases of death were reported to the coroners and how many died on the run.
Plague in Vienna
Detail of the woodcut "Dance of Death"
Hans Holbein the Younger
(public domain)
The great dying - The plague or the "Black Death" in Europe
The plague is one of the severe acute bacterial infectious diseases that today already in case of suspicion are reportable. Only a little more than 100 years ago, at the occasion of the plague epidemics in Hong Kong and India set in the modern pest investigation: The Swiss tropical doctor Alexander Yersin discovered in 1894 the plague pathogen: The bacillus received after this researcher the name "Yersina pestis". Already at that time, the science recognized the role of certain rodents in the pathogenesis of plague epidemics and the participation of the rat flea or human flea as possibilities of transmission of plague to humans.
Since ancient times, the plague was one of the heaviest and most frequent epidemics. However, one designated for a long time also other epidemics such as smallpox or dysentery as pest because they equally were associated with high mortality. The term "pest" but meant in a figurative sense misfortune and ruin. The word therefore in the past has been avoided as far as possible, and the historians tried to express it with other words as "tiresome disease", "burning fever" or "contagion" (= contamination, infection).
In the years 1348 to 1352, Europe was overrun by the worst plague in history. The disease, which evolved to become a pneumonic plague, destroyed a third of the population at that time. According to the estimations, thus around 25 million people were fallen victim to the "Black Death". The pneumonic plague was not transmitted by flea bites - like the bubonic pest - but by highly infectious droplets containing bacilli with coughing and sneezing from person to person. In Vienna this plague epidemic reached its peak in 1349.
In the next 400 years followed at irregular intervals ever new plagues and spread fear, terror and death. Effective drugs were missing, and since the disease by the Catholic Church was interpreted as God's punishment, the population put itself under the protection of many plague saints, the Holy Trinity or the Virgin Mary. Eloquent testimonies of those efforts are still churches and chapels, pest altars, pest crosses and plague columns. The adoration of the Holy Trinity in the time of need of the 17th century especially by newly founded religious brotherhoods was disseminated - thus, also in Vienna in 1679 a Trinity Column was erected - the Plague Column at the Graben. As a monument to the last plague in Vienna in 1713 today reminds the Charles Church, which is, however, devoted to the plague saint Charles Borromeo.
As medical measures against a Pest disease recommended doctors sweating cures, bloodletting, chewing of juniper berries or Angelica roots, but also the administration of theriac, a popular drug of the Middle Ages. Frequently, garlic, laurel, rue, and a mixture of sulfur powder are listed in the prescriptions. The recipes, however, differ as to whether they are used for poor or rich Pest patients. One of the few effective medical attendances was the opening of the bumps (buboes) to drain the pus, which also the sufferers felt as a blessing. As a miracle drug was considered the applying of an impaled toad on the bumps, previously put in vinegar or wine bath. Such prepared toads were also attributed great healing power during the plague in 1679 in Vienna.
Quotes:
From Vienna "plague-order" of pest doctor Paul de Sorbait, 1679
"after the experience brings with it that cleanliness is a strange useful and necessary means, both to prevent the intrusion of infection, as well as the same to avert. Herentwegen (= hence) uncleanliness causes such evil and keeps it. So is our earnest command, that firstly no blood, viscera, heads and leggs of the killed cattle, nor herb leaves, crabs, snails, egg shells or other filth (= waste, manure) on those streets and squares (must be) poured out: ditto (Ingleichen) no dead dog, cats or poultry are thrown into the streets, but all of them carried out of the city".
From "Merck's Wienn" of preacher Abraham a Sancta Clara, 1680
"As a whole, there is not a lane or a road wich the raging death had not crossed. Throughout the month, in Vienna and around Vienna one saw nothing else but wearing the dead, conducting the dead, dragging the dead and burying the dead".
"From what the plague was caused but I know all of that/ that this poisonous arrow (= plague) mehristen Theil (= for the most part) from the hand of God is abgetruckt (= shot)/how its diverse testimony proves the divine Scripture (= Bible). From which apparently manifest and obvious/that the pestilence was a ruthe (= rod)/so the sublime hand of God wreaths I trust but leastwise the tree to show /from which God the rod braids. This tree is the sin".
* Song of dear Augustine
Oh du (you) lieber (dear) Augustin
S'money is gone, d'joy is gone,
Oh du lieber Augustin,
Everything is gone!
Oh, and even the rich Vienna
poor now as Augustine
Sighs with me in the same sense
Everything is gone!
Every day otherwise was a feast,
Now what? Plague, the plague!
Now only a huge nest of corpses,
That's the rest!
Oh du lieber Augustin,
Lie only down into the grave you,
Oh my dear Vienna
Everything is gone!
Text source: Rathauskorrespondenz
Plague in Vienna
Plague doctor - through these clothes the doctors during the plague epidemic of 1656 in Rome hoped to protect themselves from the pest contamination. They wore a wax jacket, a type of protective eyewear and gloves. In the beak there were "wolriechende Specerey (odoriferous specialties)".
(public domain)
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As one plaque reads:
1927 1928
State of Arizona
Navajo Bridge
Arch - 616 Feet
Total Length - 834 feet
Height - 467 feet
Arizona State Highway Commission
...Cannot make out the smaller type in the middle...
Kansas City Structural Steel Co.
As a nearby sign reads:
Navajo bridge
Bridging the Past and the Future
Dedicated September 14, 1995
When the historic Navajo Bridge was built in 1928 it was never intended to carry the larger, heavier vehicles of today. A second bridge - wider and stronger than the first - was needed. The challenge for the Arizona Department of Transportation was to build a bridge for modern transportation needs that was sensitive to the environment and compatible with the historic bridge. The second bridge continues the tradition of the first - to maintain an important transportation corridor to some of the world's most spectacular natural wonders.
Techniques used during the construction of the second bridge mitigated environmental damage. To protect the visual character of the project site, excavated rock was removed in small, manageable pieces, and a steel cable net caught debris that otherwise might fall into the river.
Ironworkers, 470 feet (143m) above the Colorado River, install the center pin that connects the two halves of the steel arch main span. The pin was set on October 14, 1994, seven months after steel erection had begun.
Techniques used to construct the historic Navajo Bridge in 1928 were used 67 years later to construct the second bridge.
The steel arch was erected in two cantilevered sections, each extending 363 feet (111m) from the canyon walls.
A movable crane lifted and placed the steel members so that ironworkers could bolt them into place.
Tale of the Tape
Total Length - 909 ft (277m)
Steel Arch Length - 726 ft (221m)
Arch rise - 90 ft (27.4m)
Height above river - 470 ft (143m)
Width of roadway - 44 ft (13.4m)
Amount of steel - 13.9 million lbs (1,762,000kgs)
Amount of concrete - 1,790 cu. yds. (1,370 m2)
Amount of steel reinforcement - 434,000 lbs (197,000kgs)
Construction cost - $14.7 million
"We respect the historic Navajo Bridge because its design and construction triumphed over difficult site and technical problems. The major challenges for the second bridge were environmental concerns and coordination with government agencies that didn't exist when the first bridge was built."
Jerry A. Cannon, Bridge Engineer, 1995
Another nearby sign reads:
Natural Barriers to Exploration and Transportation
Native People
For centuries, the Colorado River and its deep canyons have been formidable natural barriers to travel, but for hundreds of miles, the preferred crossing of the river has always been here near Marble Canyon. Archeological evidence and oral tradition indicate that native people frequently forded the Colorado River in this vicinity when natural river flows were low enough to make crossing possible.
Explorers
In 1776, two Franciscan priests, Fray Francisco Atanasio Domingo and fry Silvestre Velez de Escalante, led an expedition across this area in search of an overland route to California. Because they anticipated being followed by soldiers, priests and settlers, the Dominguez-Escalante expedition provided the first written record of this region.
Almost 100 years later, in 1869, the Colorado River gained fame from the writings of Major John Wesley Powell, who conducted by boat the first scientific exploration of the Colorado River. Powell led a second expedition in 1871-72. His purpose was to determine if the river was navigable, map the river's canyons, and record geological formations.
Settlers
A ferry crossing of the Colorado River began operating at the mouth of the Paria River in 1871. The crossing is widely known as Lees Ferry, after its first operator, John Doyle Lee. During the 19th century, thousands of pioneers crossed the Colorado at Lees Ferry. The wagon roue became known as the "Honeymoon Trail" because recently married Mormons from new settlements in Arizona traveled this route to St. George, Utah, to have their marriages sanctioned in the Mormon Temple.
and Modern Travelers...
In 1929, the historic Navajo Bridge replaced the Lees Ferry river crossing. The bridge was so significant to this remote and rugged region that more than 5,000 people attended the dedication ceremony. Since then, travelers enroute to and through some of this country's most magnificent landscapes, have crossed the Colorado River in relative comfort and convenience by automobile.
"Nowhere in North America, and in very few localities in the world, are there any such barriers to road building as the Grand Canyon of the Colorado."
W.C. Lefebvre, State Engineer, 1926
And the last nearby sign reads:
Historic Navajo Bridge
Dedicated June 14-15, 1929
"The closing of the two great halves of the arch bridging the Colorado River has marked a milestone in the history of highway construction in Arizona."
Ralph A. Hoffman, State Bridge Engineer, 1926
The Vital Link
When the historic Navajo Bridge opened on January 12, 1929, Flagstaff's newspaper, the Coconino Sun, called it "the biggest news in southwest history." It was the only bridge across the Colorado River for some 600 miles (965km) and was a vital link in the first direct highway route between Arizona and Utah.
By easing access to this remote and rugged region, the bridge played a valuable and lasting role in transportation, commerce, and tourism in northern Arizona and southern Utah.
A 500 Pound Shot!
When the historic Navajo Bridge was constructed in 1928, blasting the canyon walls was permitted.
Ribbons of Steel
The historic Navajo Bridge was constructed as two cantilevered arch halves, each extending 308 ft (94m) over the gorge.
The Flagstaff side of the arch was erected first and took two months to complete. The Fredonia side of the arch was finished two and a half months later. The arch was closed on September 12, 1928.
Tale of the Tape
At the time of its construction, the historic Navajo Bridge was the highest steel arch bridge in the world.
Total length - 834 ft (254m)
Steel arch length - 616 ft (188m)
Arch rise - 90 ft (27.4m)
Height above river - 467 ft (142m)
Width of roadway - 18 ft (5.5m)
Amount of steel - 2.4 million lbs (1,089,000kgs)
Amount of concrete - 500 cu yds (385m2)
Amount of reinforcement - 82,000 lbs (37,000kgs)
Construction cost - $390 thousand
2013 World Water Week.
Sunday: New Knowledge, New Practice for Resilient Water Security, K11.
Photo: Thomas Henrikson.
[Image] Isaac Asimov: "Anti-Intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'."
Path of proposed pipeline through Lowndes County
Pictures by for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, .
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