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28/01/2006
The Pilchowice Dam is the second highest (after Solina) and the second dam in Poland. In addition, it is the highest stone and arch barrier in our country.
The length of the crown is 270 meters.
The first dams in Poland were built by Germany at a time when part of our country was under their annexation. That is why the oldest Polish dams are located in the west of the country, and more...
28/01/2006
The dam is located on the Parana River, separating Brazil and Paraguay.
The concrete dam is 4.8 miles long (almost 8 km) and 225 meters high, which is 75 stories. The river has 400 m wide and 60 m deep here.
During the construction of the dam in the rock, a two-kilometer long channel, 150 meters wide, was created so that the river could flow through it. The construction of the dam consumed...
28/01/2006
The firewall was built to improve hydration, obtain electricity and, above all, to control the 2333 kilometer Colorado River, which is unpredictable and has already appeared on the banks.
Hoover Dam (named after the then president Herbert Hoover) was the biggest dam in the world in its time.
It took 2.5 million m³ of concrete to build a dam, which would be enough to build a two-lane road...
28/01/2006
Windsor Castle is for almost nine centuries the main outside of the London residence of the English monarchs. It stands majestically over the Thames, its towers, defensive walls and machicules.
In the middle of the castle there is a cylindrical donjon (Round Tower), on both sides there is a guard yard, and the whole is surrounded by defensive walls. The eastern courtyard is called the upper...
28/01/2006
Neuschwanstein is a fairy-tale castle, unusual, resembles theater scenography, is decorated with garlands of balconies and lots of towers, it was only one of several palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria . You can see two more, and Ludwik had plans for many more.
The interior of the Neuschwanstein castle is a veritable orgy of different architectural styles, a Moorish-Gothic-Baroque mixture...
28/01/2006
The World Trade Center consisted of a complex of seven buildings, the most famous of which were two twin towers. The second tower had a height of 415.22 m, and the top of the TV antenna at the First Tower was located at an altitude of 526 m, so it was 46 m higher than the antenna on the roof of the tower Willis Tower .
Both towers had 110 floors and 406,000. m² usable area.
In each of them...
28/01/2006
Woolworth Building was one of the few skyscrapers financed for cash. Built in a Gothic style, the building was to be 625 feet high and cost $ 5 million, but eventually it cost $ 13.5 million and reached a height of 792 feet (241 meters).
Until recently, the building did not have a mortgage, which was unusual for such large structures. On June 23, 1998, the building was sold to the Witkoff...
28/01/2006
The Eiffel Tower was built on the occasion of a world exhibition organized for the centennial anniversary of the French Revolution. The tower served as the entrance gate to the exhibition grounds.
20 years after the end of the exhibition, the Eiffel Tower was to be dismantled, but for the needs of the metrological and aerodynamic laboratory it was left.
It was named after its builder, the...
28/01/2006
The longest building in the world runs from Shanhaiguan on the Gulf of Leia (Yellow Sea), through Inner Mongolia, to the Jiayuguan in the Qilian Shan mountains.
In the period of splendor, the building was over 7,600 km long, about 2400 km has survived to the present day. This is a distance equal to the distance between London and Moscow. The whole, along with side branches, has at least 21,000...
28/01/2006
The large pyramid is currently 137 m high (it was originally 9 m higher). The sides of the base are 230 meters long and the angle of inclination is 51 "52 '.
This pyramid was built of over 2.3 million stone blocks, each weighing approximately 2,300 kg, and the largest blocks weighing over 15 tonnes, and granite slabs over the royal chamber even 50 tons. If from this material build a wall with...
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