WATCH: China Demolishes Massive Highway Under A BlanketWhat happens when you need to demolish a 2.2-mile long bridge, but it's surrounded by about 30 local gas lines, power cables and one major national pipeline? You cover it in a blanket. That's what happened in China recently, when the Zhaun-yang ... Huffington Post UK, 1 day ago |
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Controlled detonation of two-mile bridge caught on videoA concrete viaduct more than two miles in length was blown up with dynamite last night while the people of Wuhan in central China were asleep. The mammoth demolition job set a national record for the longest reinforced concrete bridge ever ... ITV.com, 3 days ago
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Can Orb go on to win the Triple Crown?a five-week layoff. To wear the Triple Crown, he now will have to win three times in six weeks. The 1 3/16-mile Preakness, at Pimlico in Baltimore, is May 18. Then it's on to Belmont Park for the 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes three weeks later. "To tell ... Big News Network, 2 weeks ago
Can Derby winner Orb take next step to Triple Crown glory?
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Five dead as US Midwest fights record floodsSevere flooding in six Midwestern states has forced evacuations, inundated homes, shut down bridges and left a number of Americans dead. And meteorologists expect looming storms to dump more rain on the flooded cities. Five Americans are dead as a ... Russia Today, 4 weeks ago
Rain, snow set to hammer flood-soaked Midwest
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More rain expected for already-flooding Midwest
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Midwest River Towns Ready Themselves For Cresting Floodwaters
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Sandy-struck New Yorkers seek home buyoutstrade group Now six months later, the 63-year-old bridge repairman and his fiance are all but alone in their Oakwood Beach neighborhood on the borough's flood-prone Atlantic seafront. And they have had enough. "If you stay, you're rolling the dice," ... Reuters, 2 weeks ago
Cat displaced by Sandy makes 8-mile trek home
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Mother Nature Gets Sandy Victims Land in State Buyback
The Fiscal Times, 2 weeks ago
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Hope For The Warriors Announces Memorial 100 Run to Honor the 48...136-Mile Relay Run will start at the tip of Long Island, cross the Lance Cpl Jordan Haerter Veterans' Memorial Bridge and end at Ground Zero. Runners in the Memorial 100 is proud to announce the fourth annual Memorial 100 Relay Run. The relay ... PRWeb, 2 weeks ago
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One of the Craziest Bridge Demolitions You'll Ever SeeHow do you explode a 2.2-mile-long bridge in a residential district with no collateral damage? Very carefully, it turns out which is obvious when you think about it, but history is full of demolition jobs that somehow go horribly sideways . The Atlantic Cities, 2 days ago
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Man to appear in court after 'six held hostage' at Royal Mile pharmacyFacebook Tweet Google A man has been charged in connection with a siege which saw six people allegedly taken hostage on the Royal Mile. Police were called to the Royal Mile Pharmacy on the High Street, Edinburgh just before 6pm on Wednesday after ... STV.tv, 6 days ago
Hostages freed safely following stand-off between police and armed man and woman in Edinburgh chemist shop
Daily Record, 1 week ago
Man appears in court after 'six held hostage' at Royal Mile pharmacy
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Atkins wins Colorado road contractAtkins is working as construction manager for Colorado Department of Transportation on the reconstruction of a six-mile stretch of highway. The contract covers both directions of Interstate 76 between Fort Morgan and Brush in north eastern Colorado, ... Construction Index, 3 weeks ago
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From the archive: Loneliest boy is not lonely now and an island will soon be desertedAnseo: Gearóid Ó Catham (with his hand raised) in his new classroom in Dunquin SIX-YEAR-OLD Gearóid Ó Catham has lost the right to his title as "the loneliest boy in the world." His distinction as the only child among the half-dozen households ... Irish Times, 2 days ago
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