Tag: skyscrapers
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October 30, 2009 03:02 AM EDT --
29.10.2009 Source: Pravda.Ru
Seven skyscrapers built in Moscow during Stalin’s times are the iconic part of the city’s skyline. Moscow historians believe that there was a reason why they . . .
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December 17, 2007 11:31 PM EST --
Built To Last: Building America's Amazing Bridges, Dams, Tunnels And Skyscrapers by George Sullivan is a fantastic book for people of all ages. It was geared for children in the fifth . . .
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September 27, 2007 11:56 PM EDT --
Straight
Down
The
Mountain
A View From The Window Seat
The glass clad steel columns rise straight up from the harbor reaching all the way to the sky. At first sighting, . . .
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July 13, 2007 12:48 AM EDT --
I hadn't been home in so long that I had to return to my beloved Chicago under the threat that my Momma was going to come to Maryland and pull me back by the hair which could turn out to be . . .
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March 08, 2009 08:25 PM EDT --
The train is packed with sardines
In business suits and crisply ironed
Blouses. Styles differ, but the faces
Remain the same, cloned at the source
Of listlessness
The Inner City beckons, . . .
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September 21, 2008 01:43 PM EDT --
The American Skyscraper 1850-1940: A Celebration of Height
By Joseph J. Korom, Jr.
Branden Books 2008
540 Pages
ISBN: 13: 978-0-8283-2188-4
Reviewed by G. A. Bixler . . .
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October 10, 2006 08:07 PM EDT --
Skyscrapers have defined American cities since the ten-story Home Insurance Building dominated the Chicago skyline in 1885. The soaring buildings are testaments to the architectural, technical and . . .
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April 03, 2007 03:33 PM EDT --
Moscow's Seven Sisters
Moscow's Seven Sisters are an architectural legacy of the most ambitious building program ever conceived. They were built at the orders of Jozef Stalin. . . .
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August 03, 2009 10:39 AM EDT --
Is it just me or does is seem that when construction begins, it lags on for what seems like years. I swear, I'll go a year without seeing any, then it hits like a ton of bricks. I'm sitting in a neighborhood . . .
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January 20, 2009 02:31 PM EST --
I am just busting with pride to be an American on this day. When I was going through chemo this last spring I started to have anxiety attacks over the legacy of the Bush Administration. . . .
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January 24, 2008 06:05 PM EST --
If you suffer from motion sickness or inner ear problems don't go see CLOVERFIELD without a barf bag. If shaky camera moves make you dizzy, don't go see CLOVERFIELD. If you . . .
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March 21, 2009 07:25 AM EDT --
Man is a super being of about 70% perfection.When i look around my surrounding,i am absolutely astonished by the great discoveries and achievements of man.Everything under the sun created by man are almost . . .
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December 20, 2006 12:01 PM EST --
Broadcast on Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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We've all heard of rotating rooftop bars, but officials in Dubai have announced plans for an entire building that rotates — powered . . .
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