The tower is tall, from the ground to the tower's cast iron spiral staircase.

There are 217 steps from the ground to the top, with 199 steps in the tower's cast iron spiral staircase.

The tower's south-west side blew down in a storm in the early 18th century, but the remaining sections can be accessed via the circular staircase built into one corner of the tower.

During their last semester, seniors climb the spiral staircase of Cullen Tower to sign the tower's walls, adding their signatures to those of former students from over 100 years ago.

The tower's south angle is splayed to accommodate the main staircase and only the corbels of its parapet survive.

Storms routinely crested over the top deck of the caisson, and in 1952 storm waves even broke the windows in the lantern room above sea level with seawater streaming down the tower's staircase.

However, a French court ruled, in June 1990, that a special lighting display on the tower in 1989, for the tower's 100th anniversary, was an " original visual creation " protected by copyright.

Just as work began at the Champ de Mars, the " Committee of Three Hundred " ( one member for each metre of the tower's height ) was formed, led by Charles Garnier and including some of the most important figures of the French arts establishment, including Adolphe Bouguereau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet: a petition was sent to Charles Alphand, the Minister of Works, and was published by Le Temps.

Ambrosius was rumoured to be such a child, but when brought before the king, he revealed the real reason for the tower's collapse: below the foundation was a lake containing two dragons who destroyed the tower by fighting.

A primary reason for OEM's inability to coordinate communications and information-sharing in the early hours of the WTC response was the loss of its emergency operations center, located on the twenty third floor of 7 World Trade Center which had been evacuated after debris from tower's collapse struck the building, igniting several fires.

The tower's namesake was the priest, mountaineer and patriot Jakob Aljaž, who around 1900 purchased the Kredarica waypoint and the summit for the sum of five Austro-Hungarian florins.

The tower's simple architecture, large proportions and monolithic appearance have been often criticised for being out of place in Paris's urban landscape and, as a result, two years after its completion, the construction of skyscrapers in the city centre was banned.

This was done on the proposal and the draught of Christopher Galloway from England, who was summoned to design the new tower's clock ( clock watch it there with the 1585 ) and suggested the arrangement of the tent roof over the clock.

The intent was to change it back when the mall was built, but the local residents liked the tower's new proclamation, so the city decided to leave it as it was.

The tower's main selling point was that building it would be financed by private money, as opposed to tax-payer money.

The final design preserved the Gibson banking hall and the tower's height was reduced to 183 m ( 600 ft ).

Saruman was then locked in Orthanc and guarded by Treebeard, but was set free a short time later, turning the tower's keys over to Treebeard before leaving and taking Gríma with him.

Their task was for teams ( Ken & Tina in particular ) to use tower's maintenance ladders to climb from the sky deck to red light at the top to get a friend, the Travelocity gnome.

The tower's image was adopted by the Yale Herald, a weekly student newspaper, for its masthead.

To protect the foundation and manage settlement in the sub-soil, a series of long steel tubes was installed horizontally around and beneath the clock tower's thick foundation.

The tubes were provided with a control system through which grout was injected into the ground to compensate for settlement detected from detailed measurements of the clock tower's position.

A 1994 plan to increase the tower's height to 561 metres by adding an antenna was not implemented for lack of funding.

Though the FAA was originally worried about the tower's height encroaching the airspace, they deemed the addition of the antennas not problematic.

The kinetic energy stored inside the circulating loop of projectiles is vastly greater than the amount lost to inefficiencies, so it would take many hours or even days for the velocity of the projectiles to drop enough to cause problems in supporting the tower's mass.

CCTV, BBC, CBC Television for both French and English networks, France Télévisions-France 2 & France 3, Televisa, and TV Azteca share use of the tower's studio facilities.

The more reflux that is provided for a given number of theoretical plates, the better the tower's separation of lower boiling materials from higher boiling materials.

The tower's smooth aluminum and glass surface and crisp unadorned geometric form demonstrate Pei's adherence to the mainstream of 20th-century modern design.

As Sears continued to offer optimistic projections for growth, the tower's proposed height soared into the low hundreds of floors and surpassed the height of New York's unfinished World Trade Center to become the world's tallest building.

Since 2007, the building owners have been considering building a hotel on the north side of Jackson, between Wacker and Franklin, at the plaza that is the entrance to the tower's observation deck.

The tower's parking garage is beneath the plaza.

Since the elevator would attain orbital velocity as it rode up the cable, an object released at the tower's top would also have the orbital velocity necessary to remain in geostationary orbit.

The tower's tilt began during construction, caused by an inadequate foundation on ground too soft on one side to properly support the structure's weight.

These are particularly pronounced due to the tower's age and its exposure to wind and rain.

Two German churches have challenged the tower's status as the world's most lop-sided building: the 15th-century square Leaning Tower of Suurhusen and the 14th century bell tower in the town of Bad Frankenhausen.

On the tower's plaza, the first Kabila regime erected a tall statue of Lumumba with a raised hand, greeting people coming from N ' djili Airport.

The tower's architect and engineer is Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

* In 1993, Toronto lawyer Garry Hoy fell to his death after attempting to demonstrate the strength of his office tower's windows.

The origins of the name of Comté tower's are unclear ; one theory is that the name refers to the County of Paris.

Sculptures embodying seasons and cardinal points are set above the tower's three tiers.

During the dedication ceremony, with several dignitaries in attendance, public relations chief Dan Bigelow turns on the tower's exterior lights to impress them and the other 294 guests arriving for a party in the Promenade Room on the 135th floor.

The first shots fired from the tower's outer deck came at approximately 11: 48 a. m.