John spent £ 1, 115 on Kenilworth Castle between 1210 and 1216, building the outer bailey wall in stone and improving the other defences, including creating Mortimer's and Lunn's Towers.

Towers of medieval castles were usually made of stone or sometimes ( but rarely ) wood.

The Himalayan Towers are stone towers located chiefly in Tibet built approximately 14th to 15th century.

Towers made of stone were part of some medieval townhouses in order to provide safety in case of war or protection of wealth in case of fire.

They consist each of a single stone hewn into a semicircular or arched form, almost identical with some described by Dr. Petrie, as seen in very ancient Irish churches .-- Round Towers of Ireland, p. 181.

The largest of all the stone buildings and points of reference for the locals are the Pelion Towers.

A few years later, the battery was converted to a large round stone tower known as the Prince of Wales Tower, similar to the Martello Towers built in large numbers elsewhere by the British military.

* 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.

( 2003 ) Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland, Stroud: Tempus, ISBN 0-7524-1932-3

( 2003 ) Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland, Stroud.

Filming locations for the film include Blenheim Palace, Savoy Hotel London, Lloyd's of London, Borough Market, London, Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur ( with other filming completed at Pinewood Studios ), and the Bukit Jalil LRT station However, the signage at this station that was used for the movie was Pudu LRT station instead of Bukit Jalil.

The Earls of Rosebery reside at Dalmeny, Dalmeny House, in Scotland, and until 1977 also resided at Mentmore Towers in England.

* Armit, Ian ( 2003 ) Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland.

The Black Museum was a 1951 radio crime-drama program independently produced by Harry Alan Towers and based on real-life cases from the files of Scotland Yard's Black Museum.

* Oram, Richard ( 2011 ), " The Great House in Late Medieval Scotland: Courtyards and Towers c. 1300 -' c.

( 2003 ) Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland.

The Earl of Rosebery, for instance, had Dalmeny House in Scotland, Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire and another near Epsom just for the racing season.

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In 1946 he and his mother Margaret Miller Towers started a company called Towers of London that sold various syndicated radio shows around the world, including The Lives of Harry Lime and The Black Museum with Orson Welles, Secrets of Scotland Yard with Clive Brook, Horatio Hornblower in which Michael Redgrave played the famous character created by C. S.

The " World Trade Center Collapse Investigation ", directed by lead investigator Shyam Sunder, covered three aspects, including a technical building and fire safety investigation to study the factors contributing to the probable cause of the collapses of the WTC Towers ( WTC 1 and 2 ) and WTC 7.

The project was originally going to be named " Towers of Light ", but the victims ' families felt that the name emphasized the buildings destroyed instead of the people killed.

* In the Fawlty Towers episode " The Germans ", Basil blames his fire extinguisher exploding in his face on "... bloody Wilson "

In The Two Towers, chapter 6, the Riders of Rohan are introduced before they are seen, by Aragorn, who chants in the language of the Rohirrim words " in a slow tongue unknown to the Elf and the Dwarf ", a lai that Legolas senses " is laden with the sadness of Mortal Men.

In 1984, the Rockets drafted Hakeem Olajuwon who, paired with Ralph Sampson and both collectively known as the " Twin Towers ", led them to the 1986 Finals in their second and third year respectively, where in another brave effort they lost again to the Boston Celtics.

Apart from the infamous appearance of several of Kenton's streets in one episode of the cult BBC TV series " Fawlty Towers " starring John Cleese, the only known reference to Kenton in modern popular culture is the song " Kenton Kev ", by the Berlin-based punk-jazz band The Magoo Brothers on their album " Beyond Believable ", released on the Bouncing Corporation label in 1988.

Also known as " The Tri Towers ", they feature floors for ROTC, Wellness, Substance-Free, and Quiet.

As an " up-and-coming engineer ", Robertson was contracted by Worthington, Skilling, Helle, and Jackson ( WSHJ ) to participate in the design of the World Trade Center Twin Towers ( 1966 – 1971 ), his first high rise construction.

In " Goodbye Malory Towers ", she and the old girls have a reunion and she becomes an author.

Duncan and Robinson became known as the " Twin Towers ", having earned a reputation for their exceptional defense close to the basket, forcing opponents to take lower percentage shots from outside.

* Allerton Tower Park ( formerly the grounds of the demolished " Allerton Tower ", also known as " Allerton Towers ")

Supporters of the latter interpretation point to the similar terms " half-orcs " and " goblin-men ", appearing in the same book ( chiefly in the second volume, " The Two Towers "), and " Orc-men " and " Man-orcs ", appearing in later writings ( published in " Morgoth's Ring ") — all applied to the products of Sauron and Saruman's Orc-Man breeding programs.

*" Sigmund Romberg, Composer, Dies, 64: Victim of Stroke in His Suite at Ritz Towers ", obituary in The New York Times, November 10, 1951

The original monument, erected in 1932 and addressed " To God in His Glory ", at the front of the park: the border runs through the ball, and continues to between the Peace Towers, seen in the background.

More than two decades after its release, their debut single, " The Murder Of Liddle Towers ", was included in Mojo magazine ’ s list of the best punk rock singles of all time.

These barrier forces consisted of surface picket stations, dubbed " Texas Towers ", each supported by radar destroyer escorts, and an air wing of Lockheed WV-2 Warning Star aircraft that patrolled the picket lines at 1, 000-2, 000 m ( 3, 000-6, 000 ft ) altitude in 12-to 14-hour missions.

The most advanced runs on the mountain are through the rock formations at the top of the field known as " The Towers ", and the South Face.

*" More on Larry Munson: Comments, calls and his stories ", Chip Towers, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 20, 2011

That same year she re-recorded her peace anthem " World Lullabye ", included in her first album, and sold the single on her website, all proceeds were donated to the Twin Towers Fund.

Following the 2004 football season, Carter-Finley was again expanded with the completion of the " Vaughn Towers ", a complex of luxury boxes, club seats, and media facilities which opened for the 2005 football season.

His " material ", however, is invariably unoriginal and badly-executed, consisting almost entirely of poor impressions and banal routines recycled from British comedy shows such as Fawlty Towers and The Two Ronnies.