The Gold Coast was a British colony in West Africa from 1867 to 1957, when it became independent and known as Ghana.

Ås is a municipality in southern Norway that is approximately 16 miles south of Oslo, the capital of Norway. In a partnership between artist Vebjørn Sand and the Norweigan Public Roads Association, the former pedestrian bridge over Highway E18 in Ås was replaced with Sand’s design, modelled after da Vinci’s sketches.