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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Solitude Farm is only minutes from the new Arnold Palmer golf course and 20 minutes north of the Chesapeake Bay bridge-tunnel, providing convenient access to Norfolk International Airport and all the amenities of the Tidewater metropolitan area.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Or they crossed the Bering Sea Land Bridge in the last Ice Age and formed the nations of American Indians, built pyramids in Mexico, or farmed acres of corn on the banks of Chesapeake Bay.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Bay Bridge Seismic Retrofit Anyone who recalls the San Francisco earthquake of 1989 appreciates the importance and difficulty of making heavily used bridges better able to withstand seismic shocks.
During a North Atlantic cruise, she came as close to the Soviet naval base at Murmansk as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is to the U.
Authorizes the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission to establish, finance, construct, maintain, repair, and operate an additional bridge and tunnel crossing generally parallel to the existing bridge and tunnel crossing.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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In the summer of 1960, the Chesapeake Bay Ferry Commission sold $200 million in toll revenue bonds to private investors, and the proceeds were used to finance the construction of the Bridge-Tunnel.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The project was financed by the proceeds from toll revenue bonds sold by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District, and it was completed on April 19, 1999.
Bridges once designed for 25 tonnes now may have to carry 38 tonnes, a factory floor designed to carry light machinery may now need to support a high bay stacking system.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Microphones were installed at 8 different positions around the bay in order to hear the multiple acoustic delays from the fog horns on the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel crosses the mouth of Chesapeake Bay and connects the City of Virginia Beach to Cape Charles in Northampton County on the Virginia Eastern Shore.
Links to External Websites The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel crosses the mouth of Chesapeake Bay and connects the City of Virginia Beach to Cape Charles in Northampton County on the Virginia Eastern Shore.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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The highways running east from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to the beaches of the Atlantic offer mere glimpses of the Eastern Shore's vast poultry enterprise.
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