Examples. 1  The fellahin were the real Egyptians: Arabic-speaking peasants, traditional farmers whose precarious methodsâthe waterwheel powered by a cow or donkey, irrigation through the annual Nile floodâhad changed little since pharaonic times. Three Empires on the Nile.
The Matlacha Bridge (pronounced Mat-La-Shay) is a small single-leaf drawbridge located in Matlacha, Florida. It carries County Road 78 (Pine Island Road) over Matlacha Pass, connecting Pine Island with the mainland in Cape Coral.he current span is 9 feet tall, similar to its predecessor. After its demolition, the previous bridge (the one built in 1968) will be made into an artificial reef at Novak's reef, which is about 3 miles off the coast of Charlotte County.
Most of the tallest bridges in California can be visited with relative ease; however, a trip to see them all might take a week or more because of California's size. Foresthill Bridge Foresthill Bridge stands 730 feet in height, making it the tallest bridge in California. It stretches 2,428 feet across the American River in northern California, where it was constructed in 1973 to join the towns of Auburn and Foresthill across a reservoir that was never completed.