2,300 years in the making, a record-setting bridge is finally in the works. Because of Trump. Sort of
- Posted on July 8, 2026
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2,300 years in the making, a record-setting bridge is finally in the works. Because of Trump. Sort of
Around 250 BCE, the Romans laid wooden decks across floating barrels to span the Strait of Messina. In a victory march across the makeshift bridge, the soldiers transported 140 Carthaginian elephants from Sicily to Rome’s Circus Maximus, according to the first-century historian Pliny the Elder.
