One gentleman, Hiroyuki Goto, recited no less than 42,000 digits of pi from memory in 1995. This record feat took him about nine hours to complete. Pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971... The most common type of mnemonic is the word-length mnemonic in which the number of letters in each word corresponds to a digit. This simple one gives pi to seven decimal places: How I wish I could calculate pi. This longer one, giving fifteen decimal places of pi, is popular with students: How I like a drink, alcoholic of course,
Written By: Astoria Bridge, also called Astoria-Megler Bridge or Columbia River (Astoria) Bridge, bridge spanning the mouth of the Columbia River between the states of Oregon and Washington, western United States. At its completion in 1966, it was the longest continuous-truss bridge in the world. The bridge, stretching from Astoria, Ore., to Point Ellice (near Megler), Wash., provided the final link in the U.S. highway system between Mexico and Canada when it opened to traffic.
The Causeway. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest highway bridge over water in the entire world, spanning 23.9 miles from Metairie on the South Shore to St. Tammany Parish on the North Shore. The original span opened to the public over 40 years ago in 1956 as a two way, two lane bridge.