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- Name: Munich Olympic Stadium
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Date Completed: 1972
- Material: Steel
- Number of Spectators: 80,000
- Facts: Unlike other stadiums, the roof of the Munich stadium is in tnesion, its weight carried by a prestressed cable net curved in two directions to stabilize it in the wind. |
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- Name: Suez Canal
- Location: Egypt
- Date Completed: 1858
- Length: 100 miles
- Facts: The canal is one of the world's most heavily used shipping lanes, with an average of 55 ships using it daily in the late 20th century. |
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- Name: Trans-Alaska Pipeline
- Location: USA, Canada
- Length: 800 miles
- Facts: At the height of construciton in the summer of 1975, some 20,000 men and women worked 12-hour days, 7 days a week, in a race against winter. |
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- Name: Pan-American Highway
- Location: North America and South America
- Length: 48,000 kilimeters (30,000 miles)
- Facts: The network of highways connecting North America and South America. |
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The winter entertainment park Ski Dubai on the desert of The United Arab Emirates. It costs 275 million dollars, with 85 metres in height and 80 metres in width. |
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- Name: Sears Tower
- Location: Chicago, USA
- Date Completed: 1974
- Material: Steel
- Height: 1454 feet
- Facts: Known as the "bundled tube" approach, the innovative tubular system requires much less steel than did traditional designs while maintaining stiffness against wind loads. |
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- Name: Pont de Normandie
- Location: France
- Date Completed: 1995
- Type: cable-stayed bridge
- Length of Span: 856 meters / 2808 feet
- Facts: Designed by the French road administration design office SETRA, it had the longest span of cable-stayed bridge at that time. |
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- Name: Ambassador Bridge
- Location: Michigan, USA
- Date Completed: 1927 - 1929
- Type: Suspension bridge
- Length of Span: 3456 meters
- Facts:
At the time of its completion in 1929 the Ambassador Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world. |
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