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Sunshine Skyway Bridge

Index Sunshine Skyway Bridge

The Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, known to locals as the Sunshine Skyway Bridge or more casually the Skyway, is a bridge spanning Tampa Bay, Florida, with a cable-stayed main span, and a total length of. [1]

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Air draft

Air draft (or air draught) is the distance from the surface of the water to the highest point on a vessel.

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American Bridge Company

The American Bridge Company is a civil engineering firm that specializes in building and renovating bridges and other large civil engineering projects.

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Ben Bova

Benjamin William "Ben" Bova (born November 8, 1932) is an American writer.

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Bob Graham

Daniel Robert Graham (born November 9, 1936) is an American politician and author.

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Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States.

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Bungee jumping

Bungee jumping (also spelled "bungy" jumping, which is the usual spelling in New Zealand and several other countries) is an activity that involves jumping from a tall structure while connected to a large elastic cord.

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Cable-stayed bridge

A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers (or pylons), from which cables support the bridge deck.

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Cantilever bridge

A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Controlled-access highway

A controlled-access highway is a type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated.

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Deep foundation

A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers building loads to the earth farther down from the surface than a shallow foundation does to a subsurface layer or a range of depths.

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Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author.

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Destroyed in Seconds

Destroyed in Seconds was a half-hour American television series that aired on Discovery Channel.

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Dolphin (structure)

A dolphin is a man-made marine structure that extends above the water level and is not connected to shore.

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Federal Highway Administration

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation.

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Ferry

A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Florida Department of Transportation

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is a decentralized agency charged with the establishment, maintenance, and regulation of public transportation in the state of Florida.

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Florida Highway Patrol

The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) is a division of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and the primary law enforcement agency charged with ensuring the safety of the highways and roads of the state.

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Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse

On March 15, 2018, a, recently-erected section of the FIU Sweetwater UniversityCity pedestrian bridge collapsed onto the Tamiami Trail (U.S. Route 41).

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Ford Courier

The Ford Courier name has been used on a variety of automobiles produced by Ford since 1952.

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G-force

The gravitational force, or more commonly, g-force, is a measurement of the type of acceleration that causes a perception of weight.

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Gandy Bridge

Gandy Bridge is the southernmost bridge spanning Old Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg, Florida to Tampa, Florida.

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Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Google News

Google News is a news aggregator and app developed by Google.

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Grand jury

A grand jury is a legal body empowered to conduct official proceedings and investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought.

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Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines, Inc., usually shortened to Greyhound, is an intercity bus common carrier serving over 3,800 destinations across North America.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.

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Hillsborough County, Florida

Hillsborough County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Interstate 275 (Florida)

Interstate 275 (I-275), located in Florida, is a highway, long, serving the Tampa Bay Area.

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Interstate Highway standards

Standards for Interstate Highways in the United States are defined by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) in the publication A Policy on Design Standards: Interstate System.

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List of Governors of Florida

The Governor of Florida is the head of the executive branch of Florida's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Loren Cass

Loren Cass is a feature-length motion picture, directed by 21-year-old independent film-maker Chris Fuller, about adolescents coming to terms with their lives in St. Petersburg, Florida after the 1996 riots there.

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Manatee County, Florida

Manatee County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Millau Viaduct

The Millau Viaduct (le Viaduc de Millau) is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the gorge valley of the Tarn near Millau in southern France.

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MV Summit Venture

The M/V Summit Venture was a bulk carrier built in 1976, in Nagasaki, Japan.

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Pinellas County, Florida

Pinellas County is a county located in the state of Florida.

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Pont de Brotonne

The Brotonne Bridge (pont de Brotonne) is a bridge in the region of Upper Normandy in France, situated between the cities of Le Havre and Rouen.

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Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics is a classic magazine of popular science and technology.

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Port Tampa Bay

Port Tampa Bay, known as the Port of Tampa until January 2014, is the largest port in the state of Florida and is overseen by the Tampa Port Authority, a Hillsborough County agency.

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Sacred (novel)

Sacred (1997) is a crime novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, the third book in his Kenzie/Gennaro series.

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Sarasota Herald-Tribune

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is a daily newspaper located in Sarasota, Florida, founded in 1925 as the Sarasota Herald.

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Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Seven Mile Bridge

The Seven Mile Bridge is a bridge in the Florida Keys, in Monroe County, Florida, United States.

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Skyway Fishing Pier State Park

__notoc__ Skyway Fishing Pier State Park is a Florida State Park located on the north and south sides of the mouth of Tampa Bay.

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St. Petersburg, Florida

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Steve Trotter

Steve Trotter (born November 13, 1962 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a daredevil who is the youngest person to have gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

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Suicide bridge

A suicide bridge is a bridge used frequently to die by suicide, most typically by jumping off and into the water or ground below.

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SunPass

SunPass is an electronic toll collection system within the U.S. state of Florida.

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Superboy (Kal-El)

Superboy is a fictional superhero that appears in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Superboy (TV series)

Superboy is an American television series based on the fictional DC Comics comic book character Superman's early years as Superboy.

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Superman

Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay is a large natural harbor and shallow estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico on the west central coast of Florida, comprising Hillsborough Bay, McKay Bay, Old Tampa Bay, Middle Tampa Bay, and Lower Tampa Bay.

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Terra Ceia, Florida

Terra Ceia is an unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States that includes the Terra Ceia Preserve.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Travel Channel

Travel Channel (originally The Travel Channel from 1987 to 1998) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Discovery, Inc. The channel is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States.

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U.S. Route 19 in Florida

U.S. Route 19 in Florida runs along Florida's west coast from an interchange with U.S. Route 41 in Memphis, Florida, south of Tampa, and continues to the Georgia border north of Monticello, Florida.

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United States Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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Water table

The water table is the upper surface of the zone of saturation.

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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge

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