When yon travel from place to place and rivers and lakes get in the way, you can go across by boat, or go around them, or go over a bridge. People build bridges to make it easier to travel from place...
GOVERNMENT ON AN ISLAND
Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is mostly a city of islands and bridges. In fact, it is built on more than a dozen islands that are connected by about fifty bridges---which is why the city is often...