Posted on 04/30/2012 8:49:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai
(CBS/AP) On Monday, the new One World Trade Center is due to reach and surpass the height of the Empire State Building, to become New York City's tallest building.
Workers will be putting steel columns in place that will make the unfinished frame of the building a little more than 1,250 feet high—the level of the Empire State Building's highest observation deck.
The tower still isn't as high as the antenna that sits on the Empire State Building. (Experts usually don't count antennas or flagpoles when measuring building height.)
The "Freedom Tower" isn't expected to reach its full height for at least another year.
When complete, One World Trade will stand at 1,776 feet (which includes a 408-foot-tall antenna spire that will sit on its roof). Discounting the antenna, it will still be the second-highest building in the U.S., after the Willis Tower in Chicago. …
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Renaming tall buildings is one thing but whole cities? What ever happened to Saigon?? I looked at a map and it’s not there any more. Well, I guess it’s not as bad as renaming whole countries like they do in Africa. Oh well.
Jonathan Cahn's, The Harbinger is a must read. The only hope for America is 2 Chronicles 7:14.
You didn’t know they “officially” changed it to Ho Chi Minh City? They can go to hell, it will always be Saigon and that’s what we should call it. I would never have called St. Petersburg “Leningrad”. Should we rename Chicago “Obamagrad”?
One that burns me is Mumbai for Bombay. “Mumbai” is how the natives say it but so what? Bombay sounds so much better. We don’t call every city or coutnry what that natives call it or else we’d pronounce the French capital as PEAREE. Rome would be Roma, Japan would be Nippon ect ect.
Burma is one renamed country outside of Africa. The military junta calls it “Myanmar”. I’d like to smack them upside the head.
Iran should be Persia too!
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