• Yangluo Bridge near Wuhan, China, is tied with the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, United States, as the ninth longest suspension bridge in the world?

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• the New Ulyanovsk Bridge, one of Europe's longest bridges, took more than 23 years to complete due to economic difficulties following the collapse of the Soviet Union?

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• Istanbul's Vefa Kilise Mosque (pictured) is an example of a Byzantine church since converted into an Ottoman mosque?
• Baghdad Street in Istanbul was named by Murad IV to commemorate his conquest of Mesopotamia?
• Mike Davis envisioned making recreational boats available on the Hudson River in New York City after seeing how boats could be rented in Istanbul and rowed on the Bosporus?
• Süreyya Opera House in Istanbul, built in 1927 as a musical theater but used all the time as a cinema, gained its intended status only in 2007 after redevelopment?
• SantralIstanbul, a modern art museum in Istanbul, Turkey, is located in what was the first power station of the Ottoman Empire?
• Sultanahmet Jail in Istanbul, Turkey, which served mostly as a prison reserved for intellectual dissidents, is today a five-star hotel?
• Yakov Bulgakov, Catherine II's emissary in Istanbul, managed to obtain a plan of the Turkish naval offensive while being imprisoned in Yedikule during the Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792?
• after World War I, Istanbul was occupied by the Triple Entente in the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire?
• despite being a key building of middle byzantine Architecture, the mosque of Eski Imaret (pictured) is still one among the least studied monuments of Istanbul?
• in 1983, Yıldırım Aktuna, a neuropsychiatrist and later a politician, founded Turkey’s first alcohol and drug rehabilitation center at the country's largest psychiatric hospital in Istanbul?