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unionist
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posted 28 May 2008 07:24 PM      Profile for unionist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Pisa's leaning tower "stabilized"

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Italy's famous leaning tower of Pisa has stopped moving for the first time in its 800-year history, engineers who have worked to stabilise it say.

The man in charge of the team monitoring the 26m euros (£20m; $40m) project says the tower should remain stable for at least another 200 years.

It took the team more than 10 years to stabilise the tower. ...

As if to underline the success of the project, the leaning tower recently lost its title as the world's wonkiest piece of architecture to the steeple of a small church in Germany.



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Ken Burch
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posted 28 May 2008 08:24 PM      Profile for Ken Burch     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Now we'll have to start a "build something wonkier than that freaking German church steeple" campaign, just to make the Pisanos feel better.
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