Great pictures (by me or other great photographers...).

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    New thread about great picts I find everyday a lit bit everywhere!
     
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    First ones are a rare footage of the bridge over the Tagus river when she began to be built on 5 November 1962, being inaugurated on August 6, 1966 by the American company United States Steel Export Company. Although much compared to the famous Golden Gate in the United States, in fact the builders were not responsible for the construction of this bridge but the lesser-known Bridge of the Bay of Oakland, which is very close to the Golden Gate in San Francisco and with the exception of color it is much more similar to the reality bridge over the Tagus with the characteristic of the junction of the pillars in the form of "X" as well.
     
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    Those are some great pics!
     
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    Dom Fernando II e Glória is a wooden-hulled, 50 gun frigate of the Portuguese Navy. She was launched in 1843 and made her maiden voyage in 1845.[2] Built at the shipyard of Daman in the Portuguese India, it was Portugal's last sailing warship to be built and also the last ship that undertook the Carreira da Índia (India Run),[3] a regular military line that connected Portugal to its colonies in India since the beginning of the 16th century.

    The ship remained in active service until 1878, when she made her last sea voyage, having travelled more than one hundred thousand miles, the equivalent of five circumnavigations of the world.

    After long service it was almost destroyed by a fire in 1963 with the burned wooden-hull remaining beached at the mud-flats of the river Tagus for the next 29 years. Finally in 1990 the Portuguese Navy decided to restore her to her appearance in the 1850s. During the World Exhibition of 1998 the ship remained in Lisbon as a museum ship on the dependency of the Navy Museum, being classified as an Auxiliary Navy Unit (UAM 203). Since 2008, the ship lies on the southern margin of the Tagus river in Cacilhas, Almada.
     
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    Trying to insert here some images I took but size is a limitation!
     
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