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.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses due to high winds on this day in 1940. Fortunately, only a dog was killed. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built in Washington during the 1930s and opened to traffic on July 1, 1940.It spanned the Puget Sound from Gig Harbor to Tacoma, which is...hen it opened in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world. Built to replace the ferry system that took commuters from Tacoma across the Tacoma Narrows to the Gig Harbor Peninsula, the bridge spanned 2,800 feet and took three years to build.