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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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To: mnehring

Not in my book!


21 posted on 06/06/2010 7:57:24 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: GoCards

Disgusting.


22 posted on 06/06/2010 7:58:09 AM PDT by americanophile (November can't come fast enough....)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Why is this bankrupt country spending huge sums of money building islands, Formula One racetracks and towers like this?

“If you build it they will come?” Ehhh...


23 posted on 06/06/2010 7:58:44 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I suffer from B.S. - Barack Syndrome!)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Agree. The exteriors, at least, are beautiful. Often the interiors are tacky Islamic Rococo.


24 posted on 06/06/2010 7:58:53 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Maybe the UAE will be the middle east’s Detroit in the future.


25 posted on 06/06/2010 7:59:09 AM PDT by ReformedBeckite
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To: GOPJ

I would call it “overhanging” or “cantilever”, not “leaning”.


26 posted on 06/06/2010 7:59:21 AM PDT by BigBobber
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To: TigerLikesRooster

cantilevered is not the same as leaning. Cool building concept though.


27 posted on 06/06/2010 8:00:20 AM PDT by jz638
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To: BigBobber

One wonders what the uproar would be if, oh I don’t know, Major Garrett said all Muslims need to leave the US?


28 posted on 06/06/2010 8:00:30 AM PDT by rintense (God bless Israel!)
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To: luvbach1

The usual: money, different concepts and government red tape. The Port Authority actually owns the land, so everything is by committee...it’s just a sad commentary abnout our country. All the innovation, the can-do spirit has moved to the new economic growth centers - Shanghai, Dubai, etc.


29 posted on 06/06/2010 8:01:17 AM PDT by americanophile (November can't come fast enough....)
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To: MCH

I would say “Bloody Stupid Johnson.”


30 posted on 06/06/2010 8:01:58 AM PDT by razorback-bert (Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

True.


31 posted on 06/06/2010 8:02:16 AM PDT by americanophile (November can't come fast enough....)
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To: GOPsterinMA

That’s something for Helen Thomas to sit on.


32 posted on 06/06/2010 8:02:33 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: SeaHawkFan

LOL!
Or Orcah!


33 posted on 06/06/2010 8:03:07 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: americanophile

Except for the coming Cordoba mosque to be built across the street from ground zero site.


34 posted on 06/06/2010 8:04:13 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: LS

“Islamic Rococo” Ahahaha! A think you’ve coined a new phrase.


35 posted on 06/06/2010 8:05:13 AM PDT by americanophile (November can't come fast enough....)
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To: mnehring
Does this really count as leaning?

I'm leaning towards "no".

36 posted on 06/06/2010 8:05:32 AM PDT by digger48
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To: americanophile

Good answer re failure to replace WTC. Thanks.


37 posted on 06/06/2010 8:06:01 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Let's say I'm a banker in a commercial real estate division of an international financial institution.

And let's say a developer comes to me and wants to build a 35 story high rise. Even more interesting, he wants it to lean at an 18 degree angle. And to make things more interesting still, he tells me he wants to build it on sand.

Gee, I think to myself, I wonder if it would be wise to make such a loan? I wonder what the underwriting committee will think? And what will the bank president and the Board of Directors think when they hear of this loan? And what will our investors think of us for having made such a loan.

38 posted on 06/06/2010 8:06:15 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?)
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To: OCC

looks like a womans boot.


39 posted on 06/06/2010 8:06:30 AM PDT by digger48
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To: John S Mosby

Yes, that will be a nice pilgrimage site for the purveyors of death...they can all go pray at the site of a great Islamic victory. I can’t believe this is happening.


40 posted on 06/06/2010 8:06:39 AM PDT by americanophile (November can't come fast enough....)
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