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Abu Dhabi 'leaning tower' now beats Pisa (see for yourself)
Courier Mail ^ | 06/06/10

Posted on 06/06/2010 7:44:03 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Abu Dhabi 'leaning tower' now beats Pisa

* From: AFP

* June 06, 2010 10:45PM

AN Abu Dhabi tower has been recognised as the "furthest-leaning man-made tower" in the world by Guinness World Records.

The 160-metre Capital Gate tower, developed by the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Company, leans at 18 degrees - over four times the angle of Italy's famous Leaning Tower of Pisa, Khaleej Times reported.

ADNEC said the tower earned the record following an evaluation by Guinness World Records that began in January, the month the tower's exterior was completed, Gulf News reported

(Excerpt) Read more at couriermail.com.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abudhabi; capitalgage; leaning; towerofpisa; worldrecord
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1 posted on 06/06/2010 7:44:06 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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2 posted on 06/06/2010 7:44:41 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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Nice camel stables,so much for being the Hong Kong of the
Middle East.


3 posted on 06/06/2010 7:46:49 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Does this really count as leaning?


4 posted on 06/06/2010 7:47:22 AM PDT by mnehring
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Must be from all the oil leaking from the gulf of Mexico.
Hey if one Congressman can say that Guam is going to tip over, why can't this happen in Abu-Dhabi from the oil spill ? right ?
5 posted on 06/06/2010 7:47:36 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

...meanwhile, almost 9 years after 9/11, the skyline of lower Manhattan remains empty.


6 posted on 06/06/2010 7:48:03 AM PDT by americanophile (November can't come fast enough....)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Very nice!!

will be great for base jumping

I do get impressed by cool architecture. The UAE guys are broadly idiots with their economic planning, but the one good result of the free spending has been some very cool buidings.

Like a fantasy land. No economic rationale but waaaaay cool!


7 posted on 06/06/2010 7:48:45 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
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To: mnehring
Does this really count as leaning?

More like optical illusion of leaning...

8 posted on 06/06/2010 7:49:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: Dr. Ursus

They built it for Iran. It is the practice target for Iranian ballistic missiles.


9 posted on 06/06/2010 7:49:51 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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I saw a tv show on how they built this.... decided to slap a helipad on the roof after the building was almost complete. They are spending a lot of money on some crazy buildings over there.


10 posted on 06/06/2010 7:50:01 AM PDT by OCC
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I guess they don’t need toilets. Just open a window and let it fly. It will not hit the side of the building.


11 posted on 06/06/2010 7:50:07 AM PDT by umgud (Obama is a failed experiment.)
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To: mnehring

Good point — the core of the building does not lean. I saw an explanation of this on tv a week or so ago. Fake, phony, fraud. Pisa rules!!!


12 posted on 06/06/2010 7:50:32 AM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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As l;ong as Rosie O’Donnell doesn’t go to the look out the window on the left of the top floor, it should be O.K.


13 posted on 06/06/2010 7:50:34 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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Definitely one of the more phallic looking buildings I’ve seen. Who architected that thing?


14 posted on 06/06/2010 7:50:35 AM PDT by MCH
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hey a mosque is going there maybe they will be tall and uplifting. GRRRRRRRR


15 posted on 06/06/2010 7:51:04 AM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

LOL!


16 posted on 06/06/2010 7:51:44 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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...meanwhile, almost 9 years after 9/11, the skyline of lower Manhattan remains empty.

For my benefit and that of others, in a nutshell, what has been the hold-up?

17 posted on 06/06/2010 7:51:52 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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... a man...


18 posted on 06/06/2010 7:54:28 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
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To: luvbach1

NY bureaucracy


19 posted on 06/06/2010 7:54:48 AM PDT by downwdims (It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; Perdogg

Hmmm...a prop for the new Lindsay Lohan ‘Linda Lovelace’ flick perhaps?

Looks like Lady Gaga designed it - a solar powered dildo.


20 posted on 06/06/2010 7:56:15 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I suffer from B.S. - Barack Syndrome!)
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