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On this day - 2004 (world's tallest vehicular bridge); December 14th
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004. : The Millau Viaduct, the world's tallest vehicular bridge, was opened

The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed road bridge that crosses the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France. It consists of a 2,460 metre long eight-span steel roadway supported by seven concrete piers. It is the tallest vehicular bridge in the world; the summit of one of its piers stands at 341 metres, which is marginally higher than the Eiffel Tower. This makes it nearly twice as tall as the previous tallest road bridge in Europe, the Europabrücke in Austria.

Designed by British master-architect Lord Foster, together with French bridge engineer Michel Virlogeux, construction on the Millau Viaduct began on 10 October 2001. The bridge was formally opened on 14 December 2004 and opened to traffic on 16 December 2004.


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Today is a space/adventure day in history


1972
Space Last Men To Walk On The Moon 14th Dec. , 1972 : Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan become the last men to walk on the moon during the Apollo 17 mission.


1962
Space Venus December 14th, 1962 : The Mariner 2 space probe becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus ( the probe itself is just over 3ft wide and 12ft long with 16 1/2 feet x 2 1/2 feet solar panels.


1931
Great Britain Rolls-Royce buys Bentley 14th Dec. , 1931 : The worlds most recognized luxury car makers combine when Rolls-Royce buys Bentley


1911
The South Pole Roald Amundsen 14th Dec. , 1911 : Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole, beating Robert F. Scott.


1896
The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.


1600
Olivier van Noort sinks Spanish galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die



1287
During St. Lucia's Flood in Northwest Netherlands the Zuiderzee seawall collapses with loss of over 50,000 lives. Fifth largest recorded flood in history

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Back to the bridge - Would you go over it??

This is an interesting drawing.

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Daib0, have you noticed how your 'on this day' posts are starting to clog up the News/Current Affairs list, making it a bit difficult to find other threads due them being pushed further and further back. Is it not possible to lump all your threads together in one sub section?
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14 Dec 2015, 10:55 AM
Daib0, have you noticed how your 'on this day' posts are starting to clog up the News/Current Affairs list, making it a bit difficult to find other threads due them being pushed further and further back. Is it not possible to lump all your threads together in one sub section?
I can't do structural changes with my controls, that would depend on the admins (after talking to staff) being able to create a subforum. We could even have an "On this Day" subforum with:
** Events
** Birthdays
** In memoriam/Anniversaries

Alternatively I could move them over to the Random Room, though the clogging up might remain.

Altrenatively I could bow out of doing these threads, or only once in a while.


I'm open to your suggestions ...


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Keep them going daib0, they produce some interesting facts. It was only an observation on my part.
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