Enlisted personnel are identified by way of their various 'E' grades ranging from E-1 to E-9. For those service branches recognizing a Warrant Officer rank, 'W' grades range from W-1 to W-5. Likewise Officers are scaled from O-1 to O-10.
China has quite a collection of natural bridges, including one that experts say has the longest span of any natural bridge in the world. The Fairy Bridge (Xianren Qiao), in southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region near the border with Vietnam, has a 400-foot span.
What to do? Well, tearing down a perfectly good steel arch didn't seem like a good idea, so the city fathers decided to hold a contest to come up with a slogan to replace the exposition name and dates. The winner of the $100 prize was one G.A. Burns of Sacramento with 'Reno, The Biggest Little City in the World.' With that settled, the new arch slogan was duly installed.[1] Footnotes. [1] History of the Reno Arch in downtown Reno, Nevada.