The idea was championed by Manchester manufacturer Daniel Adamson, who arranged a meeting at his home, The Towers in Didsbury, on 27 June 1882.

He arranged a meeting in Didsbury at his home, The Towers, on 27 June 1882, attended by 68 people including the mayors of Manchester and surrounding towns, leaders of commerce and industry, banker and financiers.

There are blue plaques at The Towers ( today the Shirley Institute ), Wilmslow Road in Didsbury, and in Adamson Street, Dukinfield.

The scheme was not implemented ; instead about of land was obtained by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, on part of which he built a house for himself named Boscombe Towers, in 1868, Sir Henry became closely associated with the development of Boscombe Spa for a considerable number of years.

* " Towers of stone – the brochs of Scotland ", from The Scotsman, 27 February 2006.

* 1993 – Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

* 1977 – Josh Towers, American baseball player

* Hex – the Legend of the Towers, a Vekoma Madhouse ride at the Alton Towers Resort, England

* 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U. S. servicemen.

* 2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.

* John Brown ( builder ) ( 1809 – 1876 ), prolific Canadian builder best remembered for building Ontario's Imperial Towers

* Sir John Brown ( industrialist ) ( 1816 – 1896 ), UK inventor of a process for rolling armor-plate and founder of the Atlas steelworks, Sheffield Towers

There was an early attempt at symmetry in the external appearance of the great hall – the Strong and Saintlowe Towers architecturally act as near symmetrical " wings " to the hall itself, while the plinth of the hall is designed to mirror that of the great tower opposite it.

* Lake Shore Drive Apartments – Residential Apartment Towers, Chicago

Minoru Yamasaki ( December 1, 1912 – February 7, 1986 ) was an American architect, best known for his design of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, buildings 1 and 2.

The final report on the WTC Towers – including 30 recommendations for improving building and occupant safety – was released on October 26, 2005.

* 2003 – The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by and become the World's tallest highrise.

* 1920 – Harry Alan Towers, English film producer and screenwriter ( d. 2009 )

* 1723 – 1745 William Towers

* June 25 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U. S. servicemen.

* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – ( PC ) cancelled

* Martin Kramer, " Edward Said's Splash ", from his book, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America, Washington: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001, pp. 27 – 43.

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* Andrew Sachs – actor best known for playing Manuel in Fawlty Towers lives in the area.

* John Towers ( bishop ), Bishop of Peterborough ( 1639 – 1649 )

Willis Tower ( formerly Sears Tower ) and the World Trade Center towers were each constructed with 110 occupied floors – 22 more than the 88 floors of the Petronas Towers.

The Hall of the Divine Child, now the Norman Towers senior citizens residence, was a boarding school in Monroe from 1918 – 1980.

Well-known venues for granite climbing include Yosemite, the Bugaboos, the Mont Blanc massif ( and peaks such as the Aiguille du Dru, the Mountains of Mourne, the Adamello-Presanella Alps, the Aiguille du Midi and the Grandes Jorasses ), the Bregaglia, Corsica, parts of the Karakoram ( especially the Trango Towers ), the Fitzroy Massif, Patagonia, Baffin Island, Ogawayama, the Cornish coast and the Cairngorms.

Notable amongst these projects were the construction of the Petronas Twin Towers ( at the time the tallest building in the world, and, as of 2010, still the tallest twin building ), KL International Airport ( KLIA ), the North-South Expressway, the Sepang International Circuit, the Multimedia Super Corridor ( MSC ), the Bakun hydroelectric dam and Putrajaya, the new federal administrative capital.

* Nemesis ( roller coaster ), Europe's first inverted roller coaster opened in 1994 at Alton Towers, England-not to be confused with Nemesis Inferno, its sister roller coaster at Thorpe Park.

* The Titan ( Fisher Towers ), a natural tower near Moab, Utah

Recent liberalisation in the property market allowing non citizens to buy freehold land has resulted in a major boom in the construction and real estate sectors, with several signature developments such as the 2 Palm Islands, the World ( archipelago ), Dubai Marina, Jumeirah Lake Towers, and a number of other developments, offering villas and high rise apartments and office space.

* Bristol / Savoy Towers ( Ten Good City ), Fukuoka, Japan, 1998

Galveston's modern architecture include the American National Insurance Company Tower ( One Moody Plaza ), San Luis Resort South and North Towers, The Breakers Condominiums, The Galvestonian Resort and Condos, One Shearn Moody Plaza, US National Bank Building, the Rainforest Pyramid at Moody Gardens, John Sealy Hospital Towers at UTMB and Medical Arts Building ( also known as Two Moody Plaza ).

He appears in the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings ( The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers ), and is mentioned in the last volume, The Return of the King.

In a departure from the structure of Tolkien's book, Boromir's death is shown at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ), instead of being related at the beginning of The Two Towers.

In The Two Towers ( 2002 ), Boromir appears in the theatrical version only briefly during the beginning flashback sequence of Gandalf's fight with the Balrog in Moria, and he appears twice in the Extended Edition, both times as flashbacks that were not shown previously in the films.

In the Peter Jackson movies The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002 ) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Sam was played by Sean Astin.

In the United States, Sam was portrayed by Blake Bowden in the Cincinnati productions of The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ), The Two Towers ( 2002 ), and The Return of the King ( 2003 ) for Clear Stage Cincinnati.

The first line is paralleled by Frodo Baggins ' exclamation in The Two Towers ( the line appears in The Return of the King in the Peter Jackson films ), Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!

The project used of concrete ( mainly for the dam wall ), 463, 000 tonnes of steel ( enough to build 63 Eiffel Towers ) and moved about of earth.

* In The Naked Kiss ( 1964 ), another film directed by Fuller, and starring Towers, the theater outside the bus station is playing Shock Corridor.

In 2008, there were three large shopping malls operating and another four projects in various stages of development, turning Varna into an attractive international shopping destination ( Pfohe Mall, Central Plaza, Mall Varna, Grand Mall, Gallery Mall, Cherno More Park, and Varna Towers ), plus a retail park under development outside town.