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Impressive feats of engineering (with links)

  1. The Chunnel
  2. The New River Gorge Bridge - West Virginia
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Impressive feats of engineering (with links)

  1. The Chunnel
  2. The New River Gorge Bridge - West Virginia
  3. SS Great Eastern - SS Great Eastern - Wikipedia
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Impressive feats of engineering (with links)

  1. The Chunnel
  2. The New River Gorge Bridge - West Virginia
  3. The Bailong Elevator
  4. SS Great Eastern - SS Great Eastern - Wikipedia
  5. The Bell Rock Lighthouse Bell Rock Lighthouse - Wikipedia
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Impressive feats of engineering (with links)

  1. The Chunnel
  2. The New River Gorge Bridge - West Virginia
  3. The Bailong Elevator
  4. SS Great Eastern - SS Great Eastern - Wikipedia
  5. The Bell Rock Lighthouse Bell Rock Lighthouse - Wikipedia
  6. Golden Gate Bridge: Golden Gate Bridge - Wikipedia; https://goo.gl/TZJqSo; Google Maps
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Impressive feats of engineering (with links)

  1. The Chunnel
  2. The New River Gorge Bridge - West Virginia
  3. The Bailong Elevator
  4. SS Great Eastern - SS Great Eastern - Wikipedia
  5. The Bell Rock Lighthouse Bell Rock Lighthouse - Wikipedia
  6. Golden Gate Bridge: Golden Gate Bridge - Wikipedia; https://goo.gl/TZJqSo; Google Maps
  7. Fallingwater - Fallingwater - Wikipedia

The on-site engineer put a lot more structural steel into its cantilevered decks than Frank Lloyd Wright said it needed - if he hadn’t, it would’ve fallen into the creek decades ago.

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Impressive feats of engineering (with links)

  1. The Chunnel
  2. The New River Gorge Bridge - West Virginia
  3. The Bailong Elevator
  4. SS Great Eastern - SS Great Eastern - Wikipedia
  5. The Bell Rock Lighthouse Bell Rock Lighthouse - Wikipedia
  6. Golden Gate Bridge: Golden Gate Bridge - Wikipedia; https://goo.gl/TZJqSo; Google Maps
  7. Fallingwater - Fallingwater - Wikipedia
  8. Kansai International Airport

“We don’t have any land to build our new airport on.”
“No problem. We’ll build some new land.”

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[Impressive feats of engineering (with links)

  1. The Chunnel
  2. The New River Gorge Bridge - West Virginia
  3. The Bailong Elevator
  4. SS Great Eastern - SS Great Eastern - Wikipedia
  5. The Bell Rock Lighthouse Bell Rock Lighthouse - Wikipedia
  6. Golden Gate Bridge: Golden Gate Bridge - Wikipedia; https://goo.gl/TZJqSo; Google Maps
  7. Fallingwater - Fallingwater - Wikipedia
  8. Kansai International Airport
  9. Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel: Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel - Wikipedia; https://goo.gl/dM2LDq; Google Maps
    I drove it in 1983, on a cross-country road trip from San Francisco (and back) with my brother, in a tiny Fiat X1/9. Good times.
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Impressive feats of engineering (with links)

  1. The Chunnel
  2. The New River Gorge Bridge - West Virginia
  3. The Bailong Elevator
  4. SS Great Eastern - SS Great Eastern - Wikipedia
  5. The Bell Rock Lighthouse Bell Rock Lighthouse - Wikipedia
  6. Golden Gate Bridge: Golden Gate Bridge - Wikipedia; https://goo.gl/TZJqSo; Google Maps
  7. Fallingwater - Fallingwater - Wikipedia
  8. Kansai International Airport
  9. Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel: Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel - Wikipedia; https://goo.gl/dM2LDq; Google Maps
  10. Burj Khalifa - Burj Khalifa - Wikipedia

Tallest skyscraper in the world… for now.

Little Nemo, how well would the Kansai airport hold up in an earthquake? Stuff built on landfills often shakes a lot more and takes greater damage.

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Impressive feats of engineering (with links)

  1. The Chunnel
  2. The New River Gorge Bridge - West Virginia
  3. The Bailong Elevator
  4. SS Great Eastern - SS Great Eastern - Wikipedia
  5. The Bell Rock Lighthouse Bell Rock Lighthouse - Wikipedia
  6. Golden Gate Bridge: Golden Gate Bridge - Wikipedia; https://goo.gl/TZJqSo; Google Maps
  7. Fallingwater - Fallingwater - Wikipedia
  8. Kansai International Airport
  9. Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel: Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel - Wikipedia; https://goo.gl/dM2LDq; Google Maps
  10. Burj Khalifa - Burj Khalifa - Wikipedia
  11. Jane Rusell’s bra from “The Outlaws” even though she said she didn’t actually wear it during filming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaw
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Impressive feats of engineering (with links)

  1. The Chunnel
  2. The New River Gorge Bridge - West Virginia
  3. The Bailong Elevator
  4. SS Great Eastern - SS Great Eastern - Wikipedia
  5. The Bell Rock Lighthouse Bell Rock Lighthouse - Wikipedia
  6. Golden Gate Bridge: Golden Gate Bridge - Wikipedia; https://goo.gl/TZJqSo; Google Maps
  7. Fallingwater - Fallingwater - Wikipedia
  8. Kansai International Airport
  9. Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel: Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel - Wikipedia; https://goo.gl/dM2LDq; Google Maps
  10. Burj Khalifa - Burj Khalifa - Wikipedia
  11. Jane Rusell’s bra from “The Outlaws” even though she said she didn’t actually wear it during filming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaw
  12. Millau Viaduct - Millau Viaduct - Wikipedia

Tallest bridge in the world.

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Two questions:

  1. Does she have a pretty face?
  2. Does it really matter?

I’m not sure about #1.
I’m pretty sure about about #2.

Impressive feats of engineering (with links)

  1. The Chunnel
  2. The New River Gorge Bridge - West Virginia
  3. The Bailong Elevator
  4. SS Great Eastern - SS Great Eastern - Wikipedia
  5. The Bell Rock Lighthouse Bell Rock Lighthouse - Wikipedia
  6. Golden Gate Bridge: Golden Gate Bridge - Wikipedia; Golden Gate Bridge - Google Search; Google Maps
  7. Fallingwater - Fallingwater - Wikipedia
  8. Kansai International Airport
  9. Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel: Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel - Wikipedia; Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel - Google Search; Google Maps
  10. Burj Khalifa - Burj Khalifa - Wikipedia
  11. Jane Rusell’s bra from “The Outlaws” even though she said she didn’t actually wear it during filming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaw
  12. Millau Viaduct - Millau Viaduct - Wikipedia
  13. My company’s product, from Zap Surgical Systems. It treats brain cancer with robotic stereotactic radiosurgery — https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EpWckaiFt4I
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It’s Veterans Day on Sunday 11 November, and the Marine Corps Birthday tomorrow (10 November), so name a famous military person:

  1. Chesty Puller, USMC
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I don’t know. My major was computer engineering and I dropped out.

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It’s Veterans Day on Sunday 11 November, and the Marine Corps Birthday tomorrow (10 November), so name a famous military person:

  1. Chesty Puller, USMC
  2. George Marshall, United States Army
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It’s Veterans Day on Sunday 11 November, and the Marine Corps Birthday tomorrow (10 November), so name a famous military person:

  1. Chesty Puller, USMC
  2. George Marshall, United States Army
  3. Chuck Yeager, USAF
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It’s Veterans Day on Sunday 11 November, and the Marine Corps Birthday tomorrow (10 November), so name a famous military person:

  1. Chesty Puller, USMC
  2. George Marshall, United States Army
  3. Chuck Yeager, USAF
  4. Wilfred Owen, British Army

One of the greatest poets of World War I; was awarded the Military Cross; killed in action a week before Armistice Day, November 1918, aged 25

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It’s Veterans Day on Sunday 11 November, and the Marine Corps Birthday tomorrow (10 November), so name a famous military person:

  1. Chesty Puller, USMC
  2. George Marshall, United States Army
  3. Chuck Yeager, USAF
  4. Wilfred Owen, British Army
  5. George Henry Thomas, United States Army

“The Rock of Chickamauga,” a Virginian who remained loyal to the United States when his home state seceded, and never lost a battle in which he was in command: George Henry Thomas - Wikipedia

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It’s Veterans Day on Sunday 11 November, and the Marine Corps Birthday tomorrow (10 November), so name a famous military person:

  1. Chesty Puller, USMC
  2. George Marshall, United States Army
  3. Chuck Yeager, USAF
  4. Wilfred Owen, British Army
  5. George Henry Thomas, United States Army
  6. Admiral Grace Hopper, United States Navy
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I was going to list her too, Admiral Hopper
It’s Veterans Day on Sunday 11 November, and the Marine Corps Birthday tomorrow (10 November), so name a famous military person:

  1. Chesty Puller, USMC
  2. George Marshall, United States Army
  3. Chuck Yeager, USAF
  4. Wilfred Owen, British Army
  5. George Henry Thomas, United States Army
  6. Admiral Grace Hopper, United States Navy
  7. Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, US Navy
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It’s Veterans Day on Sunday 11 November, and the Marine Corps Birthday tomorrow (10 November), so name a famous military person:

  1. Chesty Puller, USMC
  2. George Marshall, United States Army
  3. Chuck Yeager, USAF
  4. Wilfred Owen, British Army
  5. George Henry Thomas, United States Army
  6. Admiral Grace Hopper, United States Navy
  7. Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, US Navy
  8. Winston Churchill, British Army

Fourth Queen’s Own Hussars, Aldershot 1895: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Winston_Churchill_1874_-_1965_ZZZ5426F.jpg

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It’s Veterans Day on Sunday 11 November, and the Marine Corps Birthday tomorrow (10 November), so name a famous military person:

  1. Chesty Puller, USMC
  2. George Marshall, United States Army
  3. Chuck Yeager, USAF
  4. Wilfred Owen, British Army
  5. George Henry Thomas, United States Army
  6. Admiral Grace Hopper, United States Navy
  7. Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, US Navy
  8. Winston Churchill, British Army
  9. James Doohan, Lieutenant, Canadian Infantry