Sure, the Brooklyn Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge may be quite stately, but they are sadly lacking any fire-breathing dragons. Now Vietnam has opened what is arguably the most awesome bridge in the world.
On our last day we took a scenic route through the old city. The lights, buildings, and river were truly spectacular. What great way to wrap up our trip.
Some urban planners still believe that the best way to ease traffic congestion is to build more roads, especially roads that can take drivers around or over crowded city streets.
Beadle dime novels became so popular that the company had to build a factory of hack writers to mass produce them. As urbanization spread, tales of the Wild West were in less demand, and tales of urban outlaws became popular.
It sounds extraordinary. Nevertheless, the European Southern Observatory has committed itself to begin building an array of giant microwave receivers on Chajnantor.
Many of these settlements were built later than 650 AD. Clearly the weather hadn't been the cause of the Moche’s demise. Also, instead of constructing huacas, the Moche started building fortresses. They had been at war.
Archaeologists found evidence of enormous rain damage at a Moche site. New building work had been interrupted and torn apart by torrential rain, and artifacts found in the damaged area dated to almost exactly that period.
"We want to know how the heavens got structure. In short, we want to understand how we got from the Big Bang to human beings." One answer is to build bigger optical telescopes to gather photons from more distant galaxies.
But why bother? Given that the night sky is full of bright galaxies, why do astronomers build telescopes manufactured to a billionth of a metre accuracy, just to see faint ones? The answer is about looking back in time.
In the 1995 film ‘Vampire in Brooklyn’, stuntwoman Sonya Davis died after falling from a high building. Many people criticised the film industry for her death.
For this famous stunt in Safety Last (1923), they built a set on the roof of the actual building. They copied the top two floors of the building and laid down mattresses in case Harold Lloyd fell the 20 feet or so.