Over 4000 men formed the original bridge building team for its formal 1890 opening. 57 of these were killed in the process.

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The winner will receive a tour of the bridge and also have a chance to operate the opening swing section.

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In green architecture news, a New York architect has come up with a proposal to blanket the unsightly West Side Highway with air-cleaning ivy and dramatic waterfalls, while in Sarajevo, we saw the opening of the winding Festine Lente pedestrian bridge.

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Warrington were without Matt King, Chris Bridge, Simon Grix and Mike Cooper, who all picked up injuries in the opening day Millennium Magic defeat by Huddersfield Giants in Cardiff.

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Both Blake Robison, director of the production now running at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre in Washington, DC, and Sam Mendes, who directs the Bridge Project's production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, emphasise this aspect by opening their productions with the actor who plays the unfortunate Mamillius, the boy-prince who dies of grief, reading from a book of fairy tales.

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Shortly after its official opening, emergency resurfacing work had to take place when sections of the road fell off as the bridge was raised.

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Shortly after its officially opening, emergency resurfacing work had to take place when sections of the road fell off as the bridge was raised.

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