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 Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a pair of twin suspension bridges that span the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound in Pierce County, Washington. The bridges connect the city of Tacoma with the Kitsap Peninsula and carry State Route 16 (known as Primary State Highway 14 until 1964) over the strait.