- The name Picardy can refer to the current cultural region of France, or the former administrative region from 1960 to 2015, or the historical province under the Kingdom of France.
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Wikipedia)
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a pair of twin suspension bridges that span the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound in Pierce County, Washington. The bridges connect the city of Tacoma with the Kitsap Peninsula and carry State Route 16 (known as Primary State Highway 14 until 1964) over the strait. Historically, the name “Tacoma Narrows Bridge” has applied to the original bridge, nicknamed “Galloping Gertie”, which opened in July 1940 but collapsed possibly because of aeroelastic flutter four months later, as well as to the successor of that bridge, which opened in 1950 and still stands today as the westbound lanes of the present-day two-bridge complex.
- Picardy (Wikipedia)
Picardy (/ˈpɪkərdi/; Picard and French: Picardie, French: [pikaʁdi], Picard: [piˈkaʀdi]; West Flemish and Dutch: Picardië) is a historical and cultural territory and a former administrative region located in northern France. The first mentions of this province date to the Middle Ages: it gained its first official recognition in the 13th century through the nation of Picardy at the University of Paris and entered French administration in the 14th century.
- Hauts-de-France (Wikivoyage)
Hauts-de-France (Upper France) (Picard: Heuts-d’Franche) is the northernmost region of France, located to the north of the French capital Paris and situated on the English Channel at the point closest to England. The region also fronts much of the French border with Belgium. The area is sadly known for its central part in the trench warfare of the First World War (1914-1918), perhaps most notoriously the Battle of the Somme, which lasted four and a half months during which more than one million men and women lost their lives. Unsurprisingly, Hauts-de-France hosts a large number of battlefields, war cemeteries and memorials. Less well-known, but still worth your time are the region’s many belfries and Gothic churches, and the remnants of France’s industrial heartland. Hauts-de-France was created in 2016 by merging Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy.