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unusual facts about The Towers


The Towers

The Towers (Ohio State), twin towers used a dormitories on the main campus of The Ohio State University


Shirley Institute

The Shirley Institute was established in 1920 as the British Cotton Industry Research Association at The Towers in Didsbury, Manchester as a research centre dedicated to cotton production technologies.


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Amateur flight simulation

Microsoft, while rebutting such criticisms, delayed the release of the 2002 version of its hallmark simulator to delete the World Trade Center from its New York scenery and even supplied a patch to delete the towers retroactively from earlier versions of the sim.

Centro Simón Bolívar Towers

On February 7, 1982, the climber Dan Goodwin scaled the outside of the towers using only his hands and feet.

Century Plaza Towers

In television, the towers were the headquarters of the fictional private detective Remington Steele, the main character of the eponymous NBC series, which ran from 1982 to 1987.

Coat of arms of San Marino

The towers symbolize the three citadels of San Marino (La Guaita, La Cesta and La Montale), while the hills represent the three summits of the Monte Titano.

Costessey

During training for World War II, one of the towers was struck by a fully armed Blenheim Bomber from a nearby airfield, causing the death of the unfortunate pilot but inflicting remarkably little damage upon the tower.

Daniel and the Towers

Daniel and The Towers is a Made-for-TV movie featuring the famous folk art masterpiece, the Watts Towers (located in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles), and their creator Simon Rodia's friendship with a 10-year-old neighborhood boy.

The story itself, and the friendship it describes, are fiction; however, Simon Rodia did build the towers.

English Gothic architecture

Notable later examples include Bath Abbey (c.1501-c.1537, although heavily restored in the 1860s), Henry VII's Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey (1503–1519), and the towers at St Giles' Church, Wrexham and St Mary Magdalene, Taunton (1503-1508).

Flag of Toronto

The flag displays the twin towers of the Toronto City Hall on a blue background, with the red maple leaf of the Flag of Canada at its base, representing the Council Chamber at the base of the towers.

From the Towers of the Moon

From the Towers of the Moon is an opera in one act by Robert Moran, with a libretto by Michael John LaChiusa.

Las Torres metro station

The station is located immediately north of the cloverleaf interchange of Américo Vespucio Avenue and Las Torres Avenue, which is named so because it features high tension towers along its median (Las Torres is Spanish for The Towers).

LeVeque Tower

C. Howard Crane devised a system derived from the method used to build the foundations for the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Maddaloni

The city is situated at the base of one of the Tifata hills, the towers of its medieval castle and the Church of San Michele crowning the heights above.

Michael Abels

The song appears on the sound track of I Build the Tower, a documentary feature film on the life of the Towers' creator, Simon Rodia.

Minto Midtown

Incumbent city councillor Anne Johnston had helped broker the compromise that approved the towers.

Oregon Convention Center

Each of the towers has a focal point artwork, with a colorful 40-foot long Chinese dragon boat suspended in the east tower, and Principia by Jones/Ginzel, a dramatic Foucault pendulum hanging over a gilded halo of rays and an inlaid fantasy solar system in the floor of the north tower.

Park La Brea, Los Angeles

As the towers are relatively isolated from the rest of the Miracle Mile — set far back from major thoroughfares in a nod to Le Corbusier, they developed a reputation as "the projects," since they are reminiscent of such notorious housing developments as Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes and New York's Queensbridge.

Rindge Towers

Originally constructed to spur development in the Alewife region of Cambridge, the towers—like many high-rise housing projects of the era—quickly became associated with crime and fell into disrepair.

The towers are named for Frederick H. Rindge, the philanthropist who helped found Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge City Hall, and the Cambridge Public Library.

Sarichioi

On the other hand, other historians consider the towers very similar to ones found in Tsepina, Shumen, Perperikon, Vidin, consequently attributing it Bulgarians, who are also known to have controlled the region at certain times during the probable period of construction.

Sliced Porosity Block - CapitaLand Raffles City Chengdu

Three large voids are cut into the towers as the sites of the History Pavilion, designed by Steven Holl Architects, the Light Pavilion by Lebbeus Woods, and the Local Art Pavilion.

Telecommunications in Burma

Huawei who has built 40 percent of the towers and ZTE has built 60 percent in Myanmar, which amounts to 1500 across the country, said it has built the towers mostly in Yangon, Mandalay and Naypyidaw.

Torres de Satélite

The towers appear prominently in the surrealist film The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Tower Hill, West Midlands

The only pub, The Towers, boasts a sign carved by William Bloye.

VLF Transmitter Cutler

The Towers were dismantled in 1941 as a menace to aircraft approaching the new Washington National Airport.

Waddesdon Manor

The towers at Waddesdon were based on those of the Château de Maintenon, and the twin staircase towers, on the north facade, were inspired by the staircase tower at the Château de Chambord.

Watchtower

Some notable examples of military Mediterranean watchtowers include the towers that the Knights of Malta had constructed on the coasts of Malta.

Woodberry, Baltimore

Four television stations also have their broadcasting studios located on TV Hill: WJZ-TV, located at the end of Malden Avenue and to the west of the towers; the WBAL Building (which is also home to WIYY and WBAL radio), on Hooper Avenue to the northeast; and WBFF and its duopoly partner WNUV (channel 54), which share facilities on West 41st Street, just southwest of the towers.