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3 unusual facts about Crosses


Bobby Petrino

In April 2012, Petrino was involved in a motorcycle crash in Arkansas while sliding off Highway 16 near Crosses.

Crosses

Crosses, Arkansas, a small community located in the Ozarks of north west Arkansas

Crosses, Arkansas

In 2012, Arkansas head football coach Bobby Petrino was involved in a motorcycle crash while sliding off Highway 16 near Crosses, his passenger being former Arkansas All-SEC volleyball player Jessica Dorrell.


A488 road

In Clun the A488 crosses the ancient Clun Bridge and this, together with other sections of the route such as at Pontesbury, mean that larger vehicles regularly get stuck and cause significant damage.

Brace Mountain

The ridge continues to the south for several miles past the lower Mount Riga and Thorpe Mountain before ending where U.S. Route 44 crosses the state line.

Cabin John Parkway

Each direction of the parkway crosses Cabin John Creek before the roadways come together to pass under the Union Arch Bridge, which carries the Washington Aqueduct and MacArthur Boulevard.

Clyne Valley Country Park

A cycle track crosses the centre of the valley, linking Blackpill on Swansea Bay with the inland village of Gowerton.

Colville National Forest

It enters the forest on the east side within the Salmo-Priest Wilderness, crosses the Pend Oreille at Boundary Dam, passes through Leadpoint and Northport, then traverses the Kettle Range and exits the Colville near Republic.

Darvel Branch

One notable landmark is a 26-arch viaduct in Newmilns, part of which crosses the River Irvine, and most of which cuts through the middle of the town.

Dragalevska River

The river flows from the lower northern part of Torfeno Branishte Nature Reserve on Vitosha Mountain, and passes by Kominite area; at the northern foothills of Vitosha the river crosses the village of Dragalevtsi (now part of Sofia, from which the river takes its name), then join few other minor rivers to form Slatinska River, and flow into Perlovska River which in turn flows into Iskar River in the northeastern outskirst of Sofia.

Duleek

The village’s four crosses and the lime tree on the village green are reminders of Duleek’s links to the struggle between William and James and to wider European unrest at the time of Louis XIV of France.

Eremitage Maria Reizenborn

The Hermitage is located on a pilgrimage route of Simmern nearby Spabrücken, which crosses the Soonwald back.

Fairfield, Waikato

Fairfield Bridge crosses the Waikato River and connects Fairfield with suburbs west of the river.

Fiducial marker

Cameras outfitted with reseau plates produce these reference marks (also called reseau crosses) and are commonly used by NASA.

George Harrison Dunbar

The George Dunbar Bridge which crosses the Rideau River near Carleton University in Ottawa was named in his honour.

Heihe horse

By 1940, there were sixteen stallions at this stud farm, among them two Anglo-Arabians and four Anglo-Norman, and others were crosses from Anglo-Norman and Percheron.

Interstate 40 in New Mexico

The route departs the Laguna Pueblo, briefly transits the Tohajiilee Indian Reservation (a chapter of the Navajo Nation), crosses the Rio Puerco and begins a steep climb to the top of a mesa marked by several small cinder cones overlooking the Rio Grande rift and Albuquerque.

Jacques de Sores

In 15 July 1570 he murdered 40 Jesuit missionaries and threw their bodies into the sea off Tazacorte in the Canary Islands of La Palma- crosses on the sea floor still mark the site at Malpique today.

Jejuí Guazú River

It flows from the department of Canindeyú, crosses the department of San Pedro just south of the department capital of San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú to join the Paraguay river.

Jerzy Ziętek Rondo

General Jerzy Ziętek, namegiver of the Rondo, and Wojciech Korfanty, namegiver of one of the streets that crosses it, were named as the two most important Silesian persons in the 20th century by the Gazeta Wyborcza, with Korfanty coming in first and Ziętek second.

Lea Valley Walk

The path now follows the river towards Water End Lane and the grounds of Brocket Hall where it crosses the middle of a golf course on its way towards Lemsford.

Leeds Country Way

It skirts St Aidan's Country Park, and crosses the River Aire at Swillington Bridge.

Lensfield Road

File :Hobson'sconduit2.JPG"?title=Thomas Hobson">Thomas Hobson, at the point where the conduit crosses Lensfield Road, at its eastern end.

Lynn Canal Highway

The corridor crosses Berners Bay LUD II which is a congressionally designated roadless area created by the Tongass Timber Reform Act (TTRA).

Massachusetts Route 43

In Williamstown, the road continues north-northeastward, and crosses U.S. Route 7 in the southern part of town.

McKinleyville, California

Following the historic Hammond Lumber Company railroad grade, the trail begins at the Hammond Bridge – which crosses the Mad River near the Mad River County Park – and extends north to Clam Beach County Park just south of Little River State Beach.

MEGAL pipeline

The MEGAL pipeline crosses the Trans Europa Naturgas Pipeline and the Remich pipeline at Mittelbrunn, the SETG (pipeline from the German-Dutch border) at Gernsheim, and the pipeline going to the Ruhr Industrial Area at Rimpar.

Minnesota State Highway 36

Highway 36 crosses the St. Croix River via the historic Stillwater Lift Bridge between Stillwater and Houlton, WI.

Monaco Marathon

It crosses the border to France and Italy and goes along the coast to a turning point in Ventimiglia, Italy and back again to Monaco.

North Carolina Highway 168

NC 168 curves west and crosses two of Tull Creek's tributaries before meeting the northern end of NC 34 (Shawboro Road) at Sligo.

Octoraro Creek

The final horseshoe-like loop, where the creek first crosses the border, gives the name to the Boy Scouts of America's Horseshoe Scout Reservation and the Chester County Council's Order of the Arrow Lodge.

Oregon Route 213

The OR 213 and I-84 intersection is also where OR 213 crosses over the MAX Blue, Red, and Green light rail lines at the Northeast 82nd Avenue station.

Orphan bridge

An example of this is the abandoned Conrail bridge which parallels Delaware Avenue and crosses U.S. Route 9W in Kingston, NY.

Pennsylvania Route 563

The road runs through wooded areas and passes over the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-476), PA 563 turns east and heads into the community of Tylersport, where it passes homes and businesses as it crosses Allentown Road.

Reading to Taunton line

The line crosses into Wiltshire and the canal crosses back to the left to run close beside the line through Little Bedwyn to reach Bedwyn railway station which is actually in Great Bedwyn.

Rio Vista Gas Field

California State Route 12 crosses the gas field from west to east, bridging the Sacramento and Mokelumne Rivers; and California State Routes 84 and 160 cross the field from north to south, with Route 160 built on levees much of the way.

River Cart

The river forms the boundary between East Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire here before running through the centre of the village of Busby after which it runs around the eastern side of Clarkston and Netherlee where it crosses the Glasgow city boundary into Linn Park, heading downstream to Cathcart.

Roger Sedarat

In his poetry, he frequently crosses the post-modern American tradition with the classical Persian tradition, reproducing his hybrid identity in his verse.

Ryde Bridge

The Ryde Bridge, which is in fact two bridges, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that crosses the Parramatta River, linking the suburb of Ryde in Sydney's Northern Suburbs to the suburb of Rhodes in Sydney's Inner West.

Shangqiu

This standing is greatly enhanced following the construction of the Beijing-Kowloon (Hong Kong) railway in 1996, which crosses with Longhai railway at Shangqiu.

Sideling Hill

The Pennsylvania Turnpike (Interstate 76) crosses Sideling Hill east of Breezewood, Pennsylvania, bypassing the two-lane Sideling Hill tunnel and the nearby Rays Hill tunnel that were formerly used by the Turnpike.

Siuslaw River

The Coos Bay branch of the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad crosses many bridges as it follows the narrow, winding valley of the Siuslaw River to the swing bridge at Cushman.

Sorot River

Further north, it turns west, accepts the Lsta from the left, crosses Novorzhevsky and Pushkinogorsky Districts, and joins the Velikaya downstream of the village of Selikhnovo.

Strand Road, Yangon

It crosses the city in a west-east direction and runs parallel to the Yangon River.

Summit cross

Examples from this period include the Confin Cross in St. Valentin on the Mals Heath, which also acted as a boundary marker, or crosses on the Arlberg, the Gardena Pass or Birnlücke.

Further layers of Christian imagery as perceived by the Romantic generation made summit crosses a motif favoured by the painter Caspar David Friedrich in more than one of his mystic landscapes.

Tame Valley Canal

Between Tame Valley Junction and Rushall Junction it goes under the Midland Metro near Wednesbury and crosses over the former Grand Junction Railway (now part of the Chase Line) by aqueduct, near Tame Bridge Parkway railway station (an unusual case of the railway pre-dating a neighbouring canal).

The Five Crosses

The Five Crosses (or commonly known as Les Cinq Croix) is a Christian monument of Calvary at Ploubezere, near Lannion, Côtes-du-Nord, in Brittany, France.

Three Wooden Crosses

These crosses stand in the traditional Christian formation of a tall cross in the middle and two slightly shorter crosses on each side representing the Crucifixion of Jesus.

Transportation in Greater St. Louis

At Missouri Route 367, US 67 turns north, crosses the Missouri River on the Clark Bridge into Illinois, through Madison and Jersey counties, then leaving the region.

Vaga River

In Velsk, it also crosses the railway line connecting Konosha with Kotlas and eventually with Vorkuta.

Vasil Levski Boulevard

Vasil Levski Boulevard crosses many of the city's vital transport arteries, such as Georgi Rakovski Street, Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard at Sofia University, Patriarch Evtimiy Boulevard and Graf Ignatiev Street at Patriarch Evtimiy Square.

Wisconsin Highway 131

The two highways parallel the Elroy-Sparta State Trail for most of their concurrency, and the trail crosses over the roads before they separate at a 3-way intersection northeast of Wilton.


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