Sentence examples for bridge disaster to from inspiring English sources

And why does history afford a special place for the creatively incompetent, from poets like William McGonagall (the immortal versifier of "The Tay Bridge Disaster") to singers like Florence Foster Jenkins (whose inability to sing packed Carnegie Hall) and, more recently, the "American Idol" reject William Hung (whose inability to do anything of artistic note has turned him into a celebrity)?

Critics have accused McGonagall, best known for penning The Tay Bridge Disaster, of being deaf to poetic metaphor and employing inappropriate rhythms that resulted in unintentionally amusing poetry.

As an example of how false information can have catastrophic consequences, the story of the al-Aaimmah bridge disaster in Baghdad on 31 August 2005 is hard to beat.

No. 224 had three claims to fame: it was the first inside-cylinder 4-4-0 to run in Great Britain; the locomotive involved in the Tay Bridge disaster; and after rebuilding in 1885, was the only compound-expansion locomotive on the NBR and one of just three tandem compounds in Britain.

In 1879, the Tay Bridge disaster was commemorated by William McGonagall and recorded photographically.

In Jorge Coelho, who resigned as public-works minister after the bridge disaster, he lost his closest political ally.

This is one reason, Mr. Petroski points out, that there has been a major bridge disaster every 30 years.

Even as the cause of the bridge disaster here remains under investigation, the collapse is changing a lot of minds about spending priorities.

And then we flash back … 'The Tay Bridge Disaster' by William McGonagall The most celebrated bad poem in the language commemorates the collapse of the railway bridge south of Dundee on a night in 1879 when "Boreas blew a terrific gale".

The houses are decorated with pictures cut out of the newspapers ("The Tay Bridge Disaster", "Our Political Leaders") - and the privy walls are chalked with health and sanitary maxims.

This selection of McGonagall's poetry, described as "some of the worst massacres perpetrated against the English language," does not even include the poet's most famous work, such as his poem on the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879.