The Empire State Building: Skyscraper Symbol of America's Power
Overview
The skyscraper is one of the most impressive tributes to the twentieth century. These buildings are a celebration of mod...
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Empire State Building
Constructed in 1930-31, the Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world for forty years, until the construction of New York's World Trade Center in 1971 an...
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Nearly a year after a stuntman tried to parachute from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, there's a new round of legal fallout.Building officials filed a $12 million lawsuit against Jeb C...
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Even if the city is installing 500 new cameras, the NYPD doesn't have the ability to constantly monitor the surveillance footage. So, how useful is it? It's all about deterrence--i.e., instilling ...
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The Empire State Building was a miracle of Depression-era America. Financed and built just after the stock-market crash of 1929, the skyscraper went up in just 18 months at a cost of $24.7 million,...
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The Empire State Building was a miracle of Depression-era America. Financed and built just after the stock-market crash of 1929, the skyscraper went up in just 18 months at a cost of $24.7 million,...
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The lawyers standing before the appellate judges agreed on one point: Former TV stuntman Jeb Corliss didn't actually parachute off the Empire State Building.But they disagreed over whether the thwa...
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Taipei (dpa) - The world's tallest building, the Taipei 101, will
hold its annual Taipei 101 run-up on Sunday, attracting 11 foreign
runners and thousands of Taiwan enthusias...
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Leona Helmsley died of heart failure today at her Greenwich, Conn., summer home at age 87, according to her longtime publicist Howard Rubenstein.
Helmsley and her husband Harry, whom she married i...
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The Empire State Building: Skyscraper Symbol of America's Power
Empire State Building
Suit over Empire State Building jump try
