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To: ProtectOurFreedom

telescopic smokestacks

wow. just wow.


4 posted on 11/01/2009 4:39:36 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: NormsRevenge

Sounds like something in a Road Runner cartoon, a ship squeezing under a bridge.

Through World War II U.S. Navy ships had to fit through the Panama Canal and under the Brooklyn Bridge. Even when it was first built, a lot of tall ships had to strike their topworks to fit under the Brooklyn Bridge whose center span clearance is 135 feet.


12 posted on 11/01/2009 4:47:46 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The People have abdicated our duties; ... and anxiously hope for just two things: bread and circuses)
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