Author: Paul

This unique “Flying Drawbridge” has several advantages over traditional bascule bridge designs. It allows for a more rapid open and closure, it allows for variable opening (open it less for shorter boats), and it uses less energy than most other drawbridges of a similar size.

Those who got across without waiting included:

• Glenmorren
• hhgygy
• Phil Ower
• Garfield
• Walter_V_R
• Gillian B
• Chris Nason
• Lighthouse
• gscrp
• Eloy Cano
• Sandworm
• Jeather
• BC11
• David Kozina
• mehmet durmus

And after the bridge came back down:

• Ashwini Agrawal
• Luís Filipe Miguel
• Rob de Wolff
• Jesus Rodriguez

In the early 19th century, a group of Germans who didn’t want to practice the state-run Lutheran religion left Germany and traveled to a small region in the US frontier. There, they created a community with utopian and communistic ideals. All of the property was communally owned, and work was assigned based on the needs of the community. They named the village after the town where Lot relocated after Sodom’s destruction, Zoar.

At the end of that century, with the capitalist morals of the day folding in on them, they abandoned that lifestyle.

Today, Zoar Village is a quaint place for tourists to come see restored German-style homes and the town garden and greenhouse.

This photo of Zoar Village State Memorial is courtesy of TripAdvisor

Those who traveled back via the Erie canal to this place included:

• Garfield
• Walter_V_R
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse

And after the hint:

• Jesus Rodriguez

After he decided in 271 BCE that the local wetlands were causing Malaria, Roman consul Manius Curius Dentatus ordered the construction of a canal to divert the Velino river to the cliffs at Marmore, where the water would fall into the Nera river bed, thus bypassing the marsh completely.

Best laid plans and all, the reconfigured river system had it’s own flooding problems, and over the course of the centuries, various Popes stepped in and ordered modifications. Then, after the industrial revolution, private businesses jumped into the fray.

Today, the falls are a scheduled tourist attraction. The water to the falls is diverted through a hydroelectric plant, reducing the falls to a trickle. For a few, published hours each day, the water is sent back over the falls to the delight of visitors from all over the world.

Those who splashed around included:

• Phil Ower
• hhgygy
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Walter_V_R
• Garfield
• Farceur
• Chris Nason

And after the hint:

• Sandworm
• rob de wolff

The name “Nashtifan” (نشتيفان) is derived from Farsi words that mean “storm’s sting”. Average high wind speeds combined with the ingenuity of the residents of this area a millennium ago brought about a set of windmills for grinding grain that run even today.

Those who found this site included:

• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• mehmet durmus
• Garfield
• hhgygy
• Jesus Rodriguez
• Walter_V_R
• Phil Ower

and after the hint:

• Farceur
• Ashwini Agrawal
• donaaronio