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other than the candle motor and the domino balancing, have anyone actually tried any of the stuff in there?
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Other then the photo'd stuff, I'd be surprised if many of those actually were accomplished... still, it would be really cool!
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I got two forks to balance on on the edge of a glass with a toothpick (I couldn't keep the forks together with a quarter).
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I must have tha book at home. Tom Tit, is it ?
Big Mick
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You will find these experiments and woodcut pictures in a book called "Columbus' Egg" by Edi Lanners. I have a copy from a late '70's edition. The book is a compilation / re-publication of late 1800's scientific parlor tricks. Fantastic reading, and the experiments seem to work!
I looks like the book is now available under the title "Secrets of 123 Classic Science Tricks and Experiments" (still listing Lanners as the editor).
http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Classic-Science-Tricks-Experiments/dp/0830628215/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/102-0018437-3658563
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oh they're very hard to do. you should use frictional force very well to make balanced. if you have videos, please post.
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Ahmet, there are some videos in part 2 of this post...
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Just when you think you've seen 'em all...
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The tank with the glass cab on top is a German driver-training tank for the Leopard series. The instructor sits up there with a very good view, and doesn't have to worry about the weather.
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Video about Goliath tank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIL34mpLi4o
Fantastic blog ¡
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Some other cool nazi tanks:
Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster
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The Goliath tank was pretty weird
http://strangeweaponoftheweek.com/category/goliath-tank
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Those tiny tanks are actually, I'm fairly certain, tracked mines. You drive them under the vehicles and blow them up.
That soldier riding one is likely in the compartment for the explosives.
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wow- the mountains are so surreal. Beautiful post.
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Unreal Landscapes... any one of them seems more at home in some imagined sf/f world than the other side of the planet from where I'm sitting.
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The post very much on time for me so I am glad I checked the net. I just finished watching The Last Emperor. Photography in the movie is ok but very limited - to the Forbidden City, the prison and some other grey stuff. Very nice pictures and show a different face of China.
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Wonderful images. I'd be inclined to visit your site again or on a more regular basis if you would please cite your sources. Some, you have. Great! Clicking on a link that takes me to a static flickr page does not allow me to investigate. Informational-wise, it's like clicking on a thumbnail of a picture and not getting a larger picture. Frustrating experience. Finding more citation information, like a good newspaper, would make for a more rewarding experience and something that I turn to places like reddit and flickr for.
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thank you for this comment. Most of the sources are listed in the body of the post, or at the end of it. I also duplicate the source info on the flickr pages. Some photos lead to the larger versions, if such are available. I would like to find out more about the locations photographed here; if you have such info, please send it in.
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first photo:
A place for the eye and mind. Stunning. Please track down the exact location. It's a must visit. Thanks for finding.
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I wonder how much of the area shown in the pics, especially the river scenes with the old volcanic cones, will be under water after the DAM is complete.
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To say thats China is a bit too generalized. All of the photos are just from one area!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilin
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I really liked the picture you found. It looks so relaxing. I couldn’t figure out what it was in the water but when I looked closer I made it out to be a person floating in the water looking up at the sky. I wish I could trade places with that person. Instead I’m stuck here with all this snow. I loved your descriptions about the picture too.
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Great photos to say the least. They give a very false reality of where the majority of the population lies today. Over 40% of its 1.3+ billion people live in urban settings. Those in rural locales are facing soil erosion, desertification, and lack of potable water in significant numbers.
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Wow. Those are amazing.
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I want go to travel china and see this place with my eyes it's wonderful land
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These score are wonderfully strange. I've linked to this blog from mine, which is called http://smpl.se
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Odd ... trackback.
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Thank you! I've been looking for these weird musical notations for a long time - thank you! I've linked to your site. Great site, it is, too. jmd
www.winewomansong.com
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Actually, the second piece of music is by the same composer as Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz.
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Does anyone know where that sheet music nonsense comes from? I'd love to get hold of a full version.
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yeah that is some crazy music.. i want a full version as well
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For the full versions (and more) -
see
this post
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Nuns with guns? You have to protect your old, atrophied virginity somehow I guess.
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this reminds me of that movie
Knock Off with Jean Claude
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Great post!
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I have been up close to some of those container ships having picked up many times at various docks in N.O., Houston area and in the NJ ports.
They make you feel really small when you have to really look up to see the top of one even from 50-100 yards away let alone standing or driving next to one.
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hey this site has been digged cute !
cool collection buddy ! thanks to that flickr guy busyman
a cool collection for you !
hhtp://thundafunda.com
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http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=295981167&size=m
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Here is another for your collection. This is the University of Arkansas Razorbacks "
Razorbug".
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Thank you, Johnathan!
Pic is posted
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There's a black & white one done up to look like a killer whale with a big dorsal fin and a huge tail in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Let's try that again. What collection of VW mods would complete without the
flying saucer.
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http://flickr.com/photos/jahfish/190281287/
shortest one i've ever seen!!!!
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Amazing photos, and note the one from 1945 with the Nazi banners and everyone giving the Hitler salute. Yup, the VW came right out of Nazi Germany and onto our roads. Few Americans bought them in the 1940's, but by the time I came of age in the 1960's, everyone had one and they were a blast to drive. Ironic that the preferred mode of transportation for the peace and love generation came from wartime Germany, but our response to this conundrum was to turn the AM radio up louder and light up another joint. Peace, brother.
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thanks for the amazing photos
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I really love the 20's/30's design Beetles in the pics.
The Beetle was my first car and I have to say there is no car quite like it. It took me over a year to discover that those strange 'handles' next to my hand-break were actually vents that opened at the back to allow warm air from the engine to come in. No wonder I used to freeze so badly in Winter! You can imagine how upset I was when I discovered that there was actually a solution to the problem of freezing (and I didn't need the blanket...)
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This is such a cool collection of VW Beetles. Thanks Avi for collecting and sharing these with everyone. My favorite is the turtle one!
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the most extreme beetle on Earth:
http://onlycarsandcars.blogspot.com/2010/05/vw-beetle-kafer-bug-run-extreme-low.html
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I am into the VW,s so it is a real eye opener to see this collection.I really like the trike(Way Cool).Thanks:)
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Love seeing the creative creations of an old friend the bug.The trike was (Way Cool).Thanks
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I, for one, welcome our tiny reptilian overlords.
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THESE are amazing, or at least wonderful pictures :) good job findin' em!
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I love the little toughguy baby meerkat on that page.
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I wouldn't have thought that a baby turtle could be cute, but you've changed my mind.
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Awesome animals photos!
Best Regards from Portugal
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Such a great site, i love your content! I check this every day at work. Can you link to mine? techandtonic.com?
The flight attendant pics are great, so is that cyberpunk stuff!
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hey thanks! i linked to you in blogroll
all the best,
Avi
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You made my month.
therealdonquixote hearts actual attractive stewardesses, not "airline attendants".
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The first picture is from a Lavazza ad from 2006.
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Thats where i saw it also - The first picture is from a Lavazza ad from 2006.
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wow... those dames have some great gams.
loving the go-go boots, but what on earth is up with the girl dressed like a bullfighter??
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Too damn funny. Those are great pics.
This remind me of the book written by, and about a Stewardess in the 60's ... "Coffee, Tea or Me."
It was, I guess, considered racy at the time but it reads like porn if it were sanitized by Disney.
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*chuckle* I'm old enough to remember the Braniff "bubbles"... ahh, the days when women were girls! Women have gained far, far more and we're all better for it - but there was also a unique spirit of fun in those days that we've lost . . . society gains, society looses . . .
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I guess the MEN enjoyed those days. It was like being "Miss America" to be an airplane stewardess then. I happened to know a girl who was one.
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Just go to Latin America. In the Bogota airport I saw some wonderful costumed stewardesses.
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Man, i remember those PSA uniforms with the weird little cleavage key-hole. Those made quite an impression on my pre-teen mind when we flew PSA from San Jose to Los Angels in the '60s.
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um, have you flown recently on an Asian airline.
The staff look exactly like this, and they treat you like royalty.
What happened to flight in America?
Unions.
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The jet engines were better-engineered then, and could suck in up to three stewardesses without wiping blades.
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paul a'barge said...
What happened to flight in America?
Unions.
Curse those unions for making it so that women over 35, those not blessed with model looks, and even some men can work as flight attendants!
What happened to the good old days when stewardesses had to wear short skirts and smile while they were groped and otherwise sexually harassed by businessmen the age of their fathers who reeked of cigarette smoke?
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What! no fat bald gay men or 200+ lb women? Those girls were hot forty years ago...
Too bad the same ones are still working today!
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I love the Asian airlines. The woman aren't ashamed to be women.
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The change in flight in American has nothing to do with unions and everything to do with the 1976 deregulation of the industry. And it's obvious from the average ticket prices since then, quality problems aside, that deregulation was (as it nearly always is) the right thing to do.
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"Groovy" doesn't even begin to cover it.
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there’s no uniform sexier than the one-piece mini-dress and off-kilter cap, especially when set off by go-go boots.
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How to Save the Airline Industry:
I, for one, would fly a lot more if stewardesses still wore go-go boots
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I *LOVE* these stewardesses!! Awesome! :)
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Ah the good old days. When even college educated women were willing to be treated like servants and sex objects.
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I lived in southeast asia in the '60s. For in-flight entertainment the flight attendants on Thai Airways used to give a style show. Sometimes they wore bikinis.
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Yet another reason why I was obviously born in the wrong decade.
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friendly skies
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Oh, what memories! I was a flight attendant for Western Airlines back in the day. Our uniforms weren't designed by Pucci, oh, but the job was wonderful! It's not like that anymore.
Janet T
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You should take a look around Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. The rest of the world still realizes that, like models, stewardesses have a definite expiration date and don't let them hang around until their fifties like the bitchy old broads you see on Northwest.
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Too bad they're all OLD now.
http://s1.gladiatus.us/game/c.php?uid=31043
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Some of those chicks are serious hunnies, why are stewardesses wearing frocks and semi-gowns these days? Men are still men - BRING BACK THE STEWARDESS MINI'S! =D
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Whats with the matador uniform in the fifth picture, Air Spain?
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now I understand why they are called the good old days...
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"What happened to the good old days when stewardesses had to wear short skirts and smile "
Yeah it's so much better nowadays now that we have fat ugly chicks with attitude as stewardesses. Thank god we don't have to deal with those thin cuties who smile anymore!
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Simply AWEFUL garbage photography... women fly planes, not dress up like Austin Powers fembots and serve duty free drinks on them. If you're not flying combat, you're not flying.
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Believe it or not there was a glamour time in commercial aviation. Alas, today, it is all gone, reduced to the bottom line of corporate balance sheets, AND, the desire of the traveling public to get there cheap (but, they still want all the amenities of the old days).
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just wondering... if i wanted to do an old school flight attendant halloween costume, how do i make it obvious that i'm a flight attendant and not just, like, someone from the 60s or 70s?
and i LOVE these photos.
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Congrats! I've nominated you for a Lemonade award, because I think you have a great pinup blog. :)
Check it out at http://www.thepinupblog.com/files/036ed21e8968766be1e7b23471d540f2-180.html
Tali
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Thank you for posting these. Those were the good old days.. I began working for the airlines in the 70's but not as a flight attendant. I worked in sales. I started flying with my family in the 60's and even through the 70's before deregulation... it was wonderful to fly. Now I hate it though I fly around the world for my work. I wish it were like it was.
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Thank you Tali - much appreciated.
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Ah...romanticizing objectification.
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I worked with PSA / USAirways from 1978- 1998- it was a wonderful career! I remember sewing the metal buttons of my uniform with dental floss so they wouldn't pop off in flight!! Thanks for the pictures!!!
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Great pics! Kind of makes me wish things were still like that. Reminds me of the scene in the movie "Catch me if you can" where he struts through the airport with all the stewardess'.
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Most of these women are still working (if you can call it that) .Long past their usefulness Now they don't look so good don't serve squat and think they can have anybody arrested on the spot
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^Agreed. They all look like this
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/8236/4949513.jpg
*puke*
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There's a photo of a troup of Southwest Airlines flight attendants boarding one of their planes suggesting it was the '60s. FYI, Southwest didn't exist then. It began in '71.
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The days shown above have been gone for fifty years, and were gone when I began flying for Pan Am in the seventies. Flight attendants included men, by then. And even back then, no one took all of this seriously; it was a fantasy of a traveling businessman, that he could sleep with a good-looking woman who only cared about his comfort, and would disappear by the next day, before his wife found out. Part of the reason Braniff went out of business was the CEO's profligate use of funds on uniforms. The FAs would have full theme uniform changes enroute, depending on the cities they were traveling to; a cowboy outfit for Houston, and a space outfit for Cape Canaveral. Crazy!
For all those people who wish the old days would come back, forget it. People have a right to keep their jobs, regardless of their increase in age or girth. To get even a small portion of those days back, you would have to pay three times as much for your ticket, dress up in a suit and tie, leave the screaming babies and kids at home, and behave with the courtesy and manners that were expected of travelers back in the fifties and sixties. Pan Am actually banned celebrities like Lucille Ball and Frank Sinatra for misbehaving and being rude. Now, those were the days!
gigi wolf, author of the Pan Am Pages, and A Woman's Guide To Everything on ChezGigi.com.
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Avi- I would love to link with you, too!
ChezGigi.com and the Pan Am Pages
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Absolutely amazing! I love bridge constrution. Thanks so much for these pics!
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Wow. The world's most pointless bridge. Somebody obviously never heard a ramp.
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One word, freaking awesome! Alright, so that was two words. :P
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i've gone over this bridge twice on my motorbike, on holiday this year. it's an amazing sight from afar and the views down either side are pretty scary. it was one of the highlights of our euro tour. :-D
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I have been to Paris twice,1st time 2-1991 during the Gulf War and the 2nd 9 weeks after 9-11(to bad Sadam or Ben Laden could not be at Euro Disney on ThanksGiving Day). The people in Paris were great and I cant wait to see/travel on the Bridge (where's the confounded bridge?: Led Zepplin.
What a beautiful design and most functional + the fact of Britain & France making transportation solutions.
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Oh my.I never thought that bridges can be built above clouds.Great engineering & nice info too.
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What amazing photos ! I think it is quite scary to drive in that bridge, but for sure a wonderful construction work.
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really nice to see all these wonders///// hope some boby beat this record//// i think one more earth will arise
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What amazing bridge ! Is it dangerous to drive there?
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I've passed that bridge a few times, and it is an amazing sight. The sad part of the story concerns the town of Millau though. Before the bridge was built, you had to leave the highway and cross Millau. it was a very popular rest-stop for families, with great restaurants and nice afternoon activities. I went through the town last November, and it is now almost a ghost town. The business activity ahas dropped drasticaly, and the inhabitants have moved away. it was such a nice town, too...
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Amazing! Proud to be an civil engineer................
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