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The Chicago River is the south border ( right ) of the Near North Side, Chicago | Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border ( left ) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center ( from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge with Trump International Hotel and Tower ( Chicago ) | Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center )
* Eiffel Tower in Paris, designed by Gustave Eiffel in motif as twin to the Eiffel Bridge, re-dubbed Maria Pia Bridge, previously built in Porto, Portugal
* Maria Pia Bridge in Porto, Portugal, designed and build by Gustave Eiffel-Preceding fraternal twin of Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
These technological advances led to the building of later structures like the Brooklyn Bridge ( 1883 ) and the Eiffel Tower ( 1889 ).
The British noticed that, during the V-1 flying bomb attacks of 1944, the weapons were falling 2 – 3 miles short of Trafalgar Square — the actual Luftwaffe aiming points such as Tower Bridge were unknown to the British.
* June 30 – The Tower Bridge in London opens for traffic.
" The Borough " to the south of Waterloo, London and Tower Bridge were also considered Cockney before redevelopment all but extinguished the local working class areas, and now Bermondsey is the only Cockney area south of the Thames, although Pearly Kings and Queens can be found as far out as Peckham and Penge.
The GLA is based at City Hall, a new building on the south bank of the River Thames, next to Tower Bridge.
Other works by Telford include the St Katharine Docks ( 1824 – 1828 ) close to Tower Bridge in central London, where he worked with the architect Philip Hardwick, the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal ( today known as the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal ), Over Bridge near Gloucester, the second Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal ( 1827 ), and the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal ( today part of the Shropshire Union Canal ) — started in May 1826 but finished, after Telford's death, in January 1835.
A few places in Lisbon's Parque das Nações are named after the explorer, such as the Vasco da Gama Bridge, Vasco da Gama Tower and the Centro Comercial Vasco da Gama shopping centre.
During Queen Victoria's widowhood, Edward pioneered the idea of royal public appearances as we understand them today — for example, opening Thames Embankment in 1871, Mersey Tunnel in 1886, and Tower Bridge in 1894.
During the following years, Hackett performed a number of jumps from bridges and other structures ( including the Eiffel Tower ), building public interest in the sport, and opening the world's first permanent commercial bungee site ; the Kawarau Bridge Bungy at Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand.
Heading next into Surrey Quays in the Docklands, and out towards Bermondsey, competitors race along Jamaica Road before reaching the half-way point as they cross the Tower Bridge.
In the first race, the course took a diversion around Southwark Park before re-joining Jamaica Road on the way to Tower Bridge and was routed through St Katherine Docks past the Tower Hotel, en-route to the Tower of London and the famous cobblestoned stretch of road that in later years was carpeted, to help runners prevent injury on the uneven surface.
Pool of London looking west, from the high-level walkway on Tower Bridge.
Several central London road bridges were built in the 19th century, most conspicuously Tower Bridge, the only Bascule bridge on the river, designed to allow ocean going ships to pass beneath it.
View from Tower Bridge towards Southwark district: City Hall ( London ) | City Hall and the rest of More London development in the foreground, Shard London Bridge skyscraper ( under construction at time of photo ) in the background.
The massive supertall skyscraper, London Bridge Tower, nicknamed ' The Shard ' is next to London Bridge Station.

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Two blocks west of the Old Town is the Kuchlbauer Brewery and beer garden featuring the Kuchlbauer Tower, a colorful and unconventional observation tower designed by Viennese architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
* 1999 – The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
* 1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7: 12 am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.
* 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at, at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
He is also referred to in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birth-mark and Herman Melville's The Bell Tower.
* 1975 – Construction of the CN Tower is completed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.
So the built output of Bauhaus architecture in these years is the output of Gropius: the Sommerfeld house in Berlin, the Otte house in Berlin, the Auerbach house in Jena, and the competition design for the Chicago Tribune Tower, which brought the school much attention.
Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.
However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell ( guest-star Warren Clarke ) and Baldrick, the king is arrested and sent to the Tower of London.
* Baldric is the name of one of the ravens presently residing at The Tower of London
The Bank of China Tower ( abbreviated BOC Tower ) is one of the most recognisable skyscrapers in Admiralty, Hong Kong.
The Berry Tower is all that remains of the former church of the Holy Rood and there are even fewer remains from the substantial Franciscan Friary established ca.
The term " tower " is also used in some cases such as the Tower of London and Jerusalem's ( misnamed ) Tower of David.
* Stephen King's The Dark Tower series mentions Discordia in several contexts ; one of the main characters, Mordred Deschain, is from Discordia, and the castle that is home to the main antagonist is called Castle Discordia.
As a global landmark, the Eiffel Tower is featured in media including films, video games, and television shows.

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Elizabeth spent her time between different prisons, including the Tower of London.
Each door opens onto New York City at different periods in time ( 1987, 1964 and 1977, respectively ) and, as Roland passes through these doors, he brings back the companions who will join him on his quest to the Dark Tower.
An episode of CBS's 60 Minutes in 2010 focused on the lack of progress at Ground Zero, particularly on the lack of completion dates for a majority of the buildings, the main tower, 1 World Trade Center ( previously known as the Freedom Tower ) having gone through three different designs, and the delays and monetary expense involved.
They are a charitable organisation, producing and performing several different shows a year at their own venue, The Tower Theatre, located in Shorncliffe.
A part of The London 2012 Olympic park is in Tower hamlets ; containing the worlds biggest Mcdonalds and the World Square ( one of the four different zones of the park ).
As for the languages of Gambia, they are so many and so different, that the Natives, on either Side of the River, cannot understand each other .… he safest Way is to trade with the different Nations, on either Side of the River, and having some of every Sort on board, there will be no more Likelihood of their succeeding in a Plot, than of finishing the Tower of Babel.
They were still in the Tower when their regime collapsed and remained there, in different quarters, as prisoners.
The fundamental unit of the pre-1527 English weight system known as Tower weights, was a different sort of grain known as the " wheat grain ".
After Clarence falls asleep, Brakenbury, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, enters and observes that between the titles of princes and the low names of commoners there is nothing different but the " outward fame ", meaning that they both have " inward toil " whether rich or poor.
The landscape of the central urban area of the city is dominated by a high cylindric building though, the Niterói Tower, that hosts different professional offices and belongs to the Niterói Shopping Mall.
The tower positions are typically split into many different positions such as Flight Data / Clearance Delivery, Ground Control, and Local Control ( known as Tower by the pilots ); at busier facilities, a limited radar approach control position may be needed.
Work on the Tower Subway began in February 1869, with the boring of entrance shafts on each side of the river at slightly different depths.
( The third game in the series, Alien Breed: Tower Assault, introduced non-linear gameplay ; in which, some levels are not required to be completed before exiting, and the game can be completed in several different ways ).
In recent years the school has also used a different seal depicting its Tower Hall building.
Central Clock Tower with entirely different architecture located in the busiest commercial center of Erode.
The ka-tet are split up by the magic door, or perhaps ka, and sent to different ' wheres ' and ' whens ' in order to accomplish several essential goals pertaining to their quest towards the mysterious Dark Tower.
The first, by Carla Faust Jones ( Mythlore 57: Spring 1989, 11-15 ), concluded from examination of a portion of The Dark Towers text that " with respect to the frequency of single letters and particularly letter pairs, ' The Dark Tower ' fragment represents a different style than the books comprising Lewis's deep space trilogy.
Like a programming language, ACT-R is a framework: for different tasks ( e. g., Tower of Hanoi, memory for text or for list of words, language comprehension, communication, aircraft controlling ), researchers create " models " ( i. e., programs ) in ACT-R.
The castle was divided into three different spaces separated by walls: the first courtyard is home to a renowned outdoor lyric theater in which high quality shows are performed ; the second one houses a large green park, while in the third courtyard it is possible to see the vestiges of royal apartments, a bishop's chapel, medieval prisons and the Pisan Tower.
Blancheflour is in a different caliphate from Flores, and there she is accused falsely and sent as a slave to a Tower of Maidens.
As the seriousness of the project grew the band began to play in different spots in Mexico City like Rockotitlán, High Tower, and El Jabalí.
Roland hears the voice of Gan, whispering that, if he reaches the Tower again, perhaps this time the result will be different ; there may yet be rest.
However, as the series evolved, it was revealed that All-World ( the world inhabited by Roland, the main character ) and our Earth ( or " Keystone Earth ") are parallel worlds, or different " levels " of the Dark Tower, and not the same world at different points in its history.

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