BUSTER BOYD BRIDGE

The Buster Boyd Bridge is a four-lane automobile bridge spanning the Catawba River/Lake Wylie between Lake Wylie, York County, South Carolina and Steele Creek, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The bridge carries/connects SC 49 and NC 49.  The Buster Boyd Bridge is the only bridge in which North Carolina is on the southern end and South Carolina is on the northern end. In other words, if you are travelling across the bridge from South Carolina into North Carolina, you are travelling south and if you are travelling from North Carolina into South Carolina, you are travelling north.

BUSTER BOYD BRIDGE

THE 48TH PARALLEL NORTH

 

The longest continuous east–west distance on land is 6,665 miles along the latitude 48°24'53"N, from the west coast of France (Pointe de Corsen, 48°24′53″N 4°47′44″W) through Central Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China, to a point on the east coast of Russia (48°24′53″N 140°6′3″E).

OJOS DEL SALADO

 

Nevado Ojos del Salado is a dormant complex volcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border. It is the highest volcano on Earth, the highest peak in Chile and the second-highest summit of the Andes.  The complex extends over an area of 27–62 square miles and its highest summit reaches an altitude of 22,615 feet above sea level.  Ojos del Salado hosts the highest lake in the world in the form of the unnamed crater lake in the summit crater. It lies at 21,260–21,330 feet elevation and covers an area of 65,000 square feet. Waters in a creek flowing into this lake reach temperatures 105.4 °F.  On April 21, 2007, the Chilean duo of Gonzalo Bravo and Eduardo Canales Moya, driving a modified Suzuki Samuri, reached an altitude of 21,942 feet on Ojos del Saldo, thus setting the high-altitude record for a four-wheeled (land) vehicle.

Ojos del Salado on the Argentina-Chile border, the world's highest volcano at 22,615 feet

STEINWAY TOWER (111 WEST 57TH STREET)

 

111 West 57th Street, also known as Steinway Tower, is a supertall residential skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.  The 60 apartments in the tower range in cost from $18 million to $66 million per unit, and offer 360-degree views of the city. It is located just south of Central Park, along a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Street known as “Billionaires’ Row.”  The main portion of the building is an 84-story, 1,428-foot (435-meter) tower designed by SHoP Architects and completed in 2021.  The tower is the fourth-tallest building in the United States as of November 2022, as well as the thinnest skyscraper in the world with a width-to-height ratio of about 1:24.

STEINWAY TOWER
111 WEST 57TH STREET
NEW YORK, CITY

HUANGJUEWAN FLYOVER

The Huangjuewan Interchange in Chongqing, China, also known as Panlong Interchange connects Chaotianmen Bridge, Cimushan Tunnel, Inner Ring Expressway and Chongqing Jiangbei Airport.  The Huangjuewan Interchange consists of 5 levels, with the highest-level towering at a height of 12 stories. The interchange spans 10 miles, has 15 ramps and 20 lanes all leading in 8 different directions.  Although the structure is more complicated, it is not difficult to distinguish the direction. There are many ramps, but each ramp has only two junctions, the direction is either left or right, and the traffic direction is very clear.

"BIG CARL"

 

"Big Carl" is the nickname of the SGC-250, the world's largest land-based crane. The crane is designed and built by Belgium-based Sarens and was launched in 2018.  "Big Carl" is the nickname of the crane's director of technical solutions, Carl Sarens. The crane's full name is SGC-250, which stands for "Sarens Giant Crane 250".  "Big Carl" is 250 meters tall at its tallest configuration and can lift 5,000 tons at a radius of 40 meters. It has 52 counterweight containers, each weighing 100 tons, and 12 engines. The crane also has a load moment of 250,000MT and runs on 96 individual wheels.  "Big Carl" has been stationed at Hinkley Point in Somerset, UK since 2019, where it has been used in the construction of the new nuclear power site.