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Italian firefighters rushed to the rescue of a 45-year-old tourist who became unwell on the leaning Tower of Pisa on Wednesday. The local firefighting team used a crane to hoist down the man on a stretcher while hundreds of curious tourists looked on....
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is one of the most distinctive buildings in the world, but it's losing part of what made it famous. Engineers have been at work for about two decades to stop the famed Tuscan bell tower from leaning. Now, it's stabilizing and straightening – just a bit. The...
(CBS News) It's not visible to the human eye, but the Leaning Tower of Pisa isn't leaning quite so much these days. In fact it's actually straighter than it has been for centuries, by about an inch. The change has taken 12 years, the result of a monumental reconstruction project. ...
No, it's not Pisa. Garisenda Tower is one of the famed "Two Towers," built between 1109 and 1119 in the northern city of Bologna. Together with the adjacent Asinelli Tower, the site is a popular tourist attraction and landmark that has inspired artists and poets for centuries. Garisenda...
tower用作名词时意思是〝塔〞,转化成动词意思是〝远远高于〔超过〕〞,可指在身高上比别人高,也可指在某些方面能力比别人强或比别人更胜任某一件事. tower用作名词的用法例句 There is a sonorous bell in the tower.塔里有一口洪亮的钟. The tower was blown to atoms by the force of the e_plosi...
A Tower in Jeopardy: Pisa's Landmark Was a German Observation Post in WWII. It Nearly Became 'history.'(American Troops Discussed the Possibility of Destroying the Leaning Tower of Pisa Because It Was an Enemy Observation Post in World War II)(Brief Article) By Mitgang, Herbert Magazine ...
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In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, survivors and their supporters were outraged about the perceived lack of care and compassion shown by government bodies, and the agencies which act on their behalf. Since then, UK authorities have started crim