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	New York World Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At 309 ft (94 m) tall it is thought to be the tallest skyscraper in the world from 1890 until 1894 when it was surpassed by the Manhattan Life Insurance Building.
		However, the number of stories the building was is disputed, with estimates ranging from the 26 stories claimed by the World to 16 or 18 stories from some modern researchers.
		It was the first building in New York to surpass the spire height of 284 foot of Trinity Church which, at the time, dominated the city's skyline.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_World_Building (356 words)

	Manhattan Life Insurance Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Manhattan Life Insurance Building was the world's tallest building from 1894 to 1895.
		The Manhattan Life Insurance Building was one of the oldest skyscrapers.
		The building, which rose to 348 ft (106.1 m), was finished in 1894 and had a small expansion in 1904.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manhattan_Life_Insurance_Building (179 words)

	Skyscraper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word skyscraper was first applied to such buildings in the late 19th century, reflecting public amazement at the tall buildings being built in Chicago and New York City.
		In this building, a steel frame supported the entire weight of the walls instead of the walls themselves carrying the weight of the building which was the usual method.
		The first building to fit the engineering definition meanwhile was the then largest hotel in the world, the Grand Midland Hotel, now known as St Pancras Chambers in London completed in 1873 and 82 metres (269 feet) tall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skyscraper (1751 words)

	Skyscraper - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The word skyscraper was first applied to such buildings in the late 19th century, reflecting public amazement at the tall buildings being built in New York City.
		Buildings up to about four stories can be supported by their walls, while skyscrapers are larger buildings that must be supported by a skeletal frame.
		While the first skyscraper is usually considered the ten-story Home Insurance Building, in Chicago, built in 1884–1885; its height is not considered unusual or very impressive today, so that, if the building were newly constructed today, it would not be called a skyscraper.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sky-scraper (1409 words)

	MIG History
		Manhattan Insurance Group's legacy begins in 1850 with the formation of The Manhattan Life Insurance Company, one of the early pioneers in the life insurance industry.
		Manhattan Life was the first company to introduce incontestable clauses in life insurance contracts.
		Manhattan Insurance Group puts technology at the forefront, developing online tools that allow clients to select from a wide range of communication and enrollment services to create a customized benefit plan for their employees.
	www.themanhattanlife.com /history.htm (503 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Building Types
		One disincentive to building higher buildings is that the cost of construction per floor increases with the height of the building because the entire building structure, including foundations and vertical supports, must be stronger.
		The shaft for the plunger was sunk in the ground as deep as the building was high.
		The building was described on the 1904 postcard to the left as the "largest office building in the world." It is the tallest building in the world that is supported primarily by brick load bearing walls.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /TYPE/TYPE-Office.htm (2457 words)

	Office Buildings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Also in lower Manhattan, after 1865 some office buildings without elevators were taller than five stories, but apparently the top floors generally were not used for offices.
		The incentive to build taller buildings is that taller buildings use less land per square foot of office space.
		One disincentive to building higher office buildings is that the cost of construction per floor increases with the height of the building because the entire building structure, including foundations and vertical supports, must be stronger.
	www.netangola.com /EarlyOfficeMuseum/office_buildings.htm (1919 words)

	Manhattan, KS!
		The primary emphasis of the document is to provide long range guidance to property owners, citizens and decision makers on land use issues, such as where residential, commercial and industrial development should occur in the future, and at what densities.
		Manhattan and Riley County updated the Manhattan Urban Area Comprehensive Plan in a two-year joint planning process, culminating in adoption by the Manhattan Urban Area Planning Board, the Riley County Planning Board and the City and County Commissions in June 2003.
		Because the City of Manhattan issues special assessment general obligation bonds to finance subdivision infrastructure improvements, which are exempt from Federal and State income taxes, developers and homeowners are able to secure lower interest rates on the specials they do pay.
	ci.manhattan.ks.us /faq.asp (4521 words)

	Streetscapes/The Park Row Building, 15 Park Row; An 1899 'Monster' That Reigned High Over the City - New York Times
		The 391-foot-high Park Row Building -- 26 floors, plus the two three-story cupolas -- was completed in 1899 and succeeded the 350-foot-high Manhattan Life Insurance Building at 66 Broadway, just south of Wall Street, as the tallest building in New York.
		In an 1899 article, the building's architect, Robert H. Robertson, wrote that he had tried to make the building ''look less than its real height.'' He had designed the facade, he wrote, so that the floors appeared to be in groups of four or five, and he had added heavy horizontal forms.
		The 1900 census taker found two families in occupancy: James Jackson, the building engineer, his wife, Mary, and two children, and Alice Harrison, the ''janitoress,'' a 38-year-old widow, living with her 9-year-old son, Alfred, and Charles Michial, 19, the elevator operator.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E6DB1F38F931A25750C0A9669C8B63 (737 words)

	New York Architecture Images- New York Life Insurance Company
		With the New York Life Insurance Company design, Gilbert melded the neo-Gothic embellishments of his earlier buildings with the cubic geometries of 1920s skyscrapers, making this building a significant transition from the historical revival-style skyscrapers of the 1900s to the Art Deco towers of the late 1920s.
		The building was constructed during the administration of President Darwin P. Kingsley, an internationally-renowned businessman who expanded the firm's operations and developed new types of insurance policies.
		New York Life Insurance Company, a Fortune 100 company, is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States and one of the largest life insurers in the world.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /GRP/GRP020.htm (981 words)

	ipedia.com: Skyscraper Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The development steel, reinforced concrete, and water pumps have made possible the construction of extremely tall buildings, some of which are over 300 metres tall.
		This table is adapted from [1], and ranks high rises by the highest architectural detail, and does not include the height of structual components that may look like a spire, but are not classified as such.
		The table is up to date as of 2004, with destroyed buildings removed, notably the World Trade Center which would be in the top ten.
	www.ipedia.com /skyscraper.html (548 words)

	Student Life - Undergraduate Catalog (Manhattan College)
		Manhattan co-ops/interns have had full-time and part-time placements in business, law firms, government agencies, social service organizations, museums, research laboratories, etc. Cooperative Education/Internships offers students a realistic way to explore and evaluate their interests, skills and career options while choosing to earn academic credit and an appropriate salary.
		Manhattan College Engineer—a student-edited and written journal to provide a means of gaining recognition for research and to make industry aware of Manhattan Engineers.
		Being a component of the Student Life Division, the Security Department actively supports the stated mission of the College and accepts its responsibility to employ security measures to ensure that our students enjoy their time at Manhattan College in safety and well being.
	www.manhattan.edu /catalog/student_life.shtml (4277 words)

	Home Life Building
		The corner building, 253 Broadway, was built by the Brooklyn-based Home Life Insurance Company, which had a branch office at the site since 1866.
		The building is a fine example of the tripartite expression of high-rise design, with its ornate arcaded base, simple shaft, and impressive pyramidal crown.
		The building is a cooperative, owned jointly with the City, which houses various offices on the upper floors.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dcas/html/resources/man_253bway.shtml (179 words)

	NEW YORK SCRAPERS - EARLY CENTURY II
		At 204 m it was the first building to exceed in height such old monuments as the Pyramid of Cheops, the Washington Monument and the towers of Cologne Cathedral, although it was still far from beating the Eiffel Tower -- despite the Singer officials shamelessly praising it as "the highest building in the world".
		An indication of the bulk of the building was the fact that it remained the largest office building (by internal volume) in the world until the Empire State Building of 1931.
		The building site is only 15 m wide and 27.5 m deep, and the architects remarked that they wanted to make the building "a model for the tall, narrow building in the center of a city block." And it was regarded as such for the next decade of feverish urban construction.
	www.greatgridlock.net /NYC/nyc1a.html (2599 words)

	Manhattan Life Insurance Building, New York City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wishing to create an architectural symbol to outshine its rivals, in 1892 the Manhattan Life Insurance Company held a competition for its new headquarters at 64-70 Broadway across from Trinity Church, selecting architects Kimball and Thompson.
		The Manhattan Life Insurance Company, founded in 1850, began construction of this skyscraper in 1893.
		By the 1960s, the building was no longer particularly tall or fashionable, and was demolished to make way for the 1965 addition to the Irving Trust Company’s Art Deco One Wall Street, now The Bank of New York.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=102481 (243 words)

	MI Conference Series 2 \| Regulation Through Litigation: Assessing the Role of Bounty Hunters and Bureaucrats in the ...
		In modern life, there are two obvious ways to address threats to human health and safety that may be presented by private commercial activity.
		To respond to these questions the Manhattan Institute, The Federalist Society and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce held a conference on the subject in February 2000.
		Second, we want to provide patients with a kind of insurance against bad HMO behavior, a guarantee against arbitrary and capricious denials of benefits at a time when people are worst suited to handle them.
	www.manhattan-institute.org /html/mics2a.htm (10289 words)

	First Colony Life Insurance - Information
		Royal Group and cost life insurance to its its and financial Mutual Life Insurance was a the time since a life insurer went Aoba Life Insurance took over its contracts in the Life Insurance Association of Mutual Life Insurance.
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	www.freewebs.com /information24/first-colony-life-insurance.html (373 words)

	AISC \| Active Matter Navigation Menu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When the architectural firm Graham, Anderson, Probst and White designed the Equitable Life Insurance Building in Manhattan's financial district; their goal was to capitalize on functional floor space, in turn making the building very profitable.
		What they had not expected was that the 40-story building would cast a seven-acre shadow across the city, much to the dismay of New Yorkers.
		The 1,200,000 square foot building went over its plot size by 30 stories, thereby bullying New York City into creating its first zoning ordinance in 1916.
	www.aisc.org /PrinterTemplate.cfm?Section=Kim_Swiss_and_Todd_Alwoods_Ten_Building_Superlatives&Template=/ContentManagement/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=25571 (111 words)

	Life Insurance Information \| Business.com
		Source for health insurance, dental insurance, and life insurance for small-business owners, self-employed individuals and their families.
		A diversified insurance and financial services company that offers life insurance, group dental and vision products, annuities, pension products including 401(k), public finance services, and a wide variety of investment products and services.
		Specializes in individual life insurance, fixed annuities, and group life, and disability insurance as well as mutual funds, variable annuities, and variable life insurance.
	www.business.com /directory/financial_services/insurance/life_insurance/index.asp?partner=ft (3404 words)

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		Here and there are a few of the more modest buildings still standing, sandwiched in between their huge neighbors and looking to the eyes of the present generation to be sadly out of place.
		THE EQUITABLE LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING The Equitable Life Insurance building, opposite Trinity, may be considered as the pioneer of the modern high office buildings.
		In the course of time, the building was over-topped by its neighbors, and the bureau found lodgment in the tower of the Manhattan Life Insurance building at a height of three hundred and fifty-one feet above the street.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Manhattan/Broadway/Wall.Commons.html (4101 words)

	Manhattan, KS!
		The Manhattan Department of Fire Services offers fire prevention presentations on a variety of subjects.
		In 1977 the Manhattan Department of Fire Services developed the Rescue Alert program to assist both Fire Department personnel and the public in being aware of rescue situations that may involve unusual circumstances.
		You can find the locations of the Manhattan Fire Stations with this map.
	www.ci.manhattan.ks.us /FAQ.ASP?TID=2 (703 words)

	message term life insurance quote
		Celeborn establishesterm life insurance mansions after the fashion of their own people, delved deep into the earth.
		Where the Esgalduin now the year had come in the courses of the seasons, term life insurance hearers will be very few indeed.
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	Wired New York Forum - ny "Tallest building in the world!!" thru history
		In 1894, this was "the tallest building in the U.S." 348 ft.
		As so many of these buildings claimed to be the "tallest building in the world" it's a bit confusing.
		I think that Philly's City Hall isn't counted as having been a former WTB for the same reasons that churches and cathedrals weren't: all of the office space was in the lower nine stories of the building, and the tower itself is just a tower, with no purpose other than to be aesthetically pleasing.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=6205 (460 words)

	New York Life Demonstrates Commitment to Downtown Redevelopment
		NEW YORK, N.Y., August 28, 2002 — New York Life Insurance Company announced today that its Vanderbilt General Office has relocated to 120 Broadway, only blocks from Ground Zero in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, and is now called the Manhattan General Office.
		"Our relocation to a building near Ground Zero is a clear indication of New York Life's commitment to the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan and a demonstration of our confidence in the vitality of New York City's financial district," said Marc Pfaff, managing partner of the newly relocated office.
		New York Life Insurance Company, a Fortune 100 company, is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States.
	www.newyorklife.com /cda/0,3254,11818,00.html (361 words)

	Tallest Buildings -- History of the Tallest Skyscrapers
		Emporis Data Committee defines skyscraper as a building which is 35 meters or greater in height, and is divided at regular intervals into occupiable levels
		19th century, buildings of over six stories were rare.
		Tallest buildings in the U.S. Tallest buildings by states
	www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/skyscrapers.htm (262 words)

	League of Women Voters Manhattan / Riley County Kansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Learn about issues and hot-button topics directly from officials and experts at Lunch With League the second Tuesday of every month in the Manhattan Public Library second floor auditorium.
		The league normally advertises these forums on the home page of the league's web site, in the local newspaper, on the weather channel, in The Voter (the local league's official newsletter) and by e-mail.
		It may be awarded to an individual who has shown creativity, persistence, and overall leadership which has expanded our understanding and awareness of the importance of good citizenship, good government, and our sense of community.
	lwv.manhattanks.org /lwv_events.html (570 words)

	Atlanta Life - Management
		Brown joined Atlanta Life in March of 2004 as the Company's sixth President and CEO after having served as a member of its Board of Directors for two years.
		Bruce was recently reelected to a second term as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, serving on the Education, Judiciary and Insurance Committees.
		Before moving to USA in May 1981, he was with Life Insurance Corporation of India, New Delhi for over 23 years.
	www.atlantalife.com /main.asp?urh=management_aboutus (1799 words)

	MetLife Sells Second Manhattan Building to Fund Acquisition of Travelers Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The building, located at 200 Park Ave., will continue to serve as the company's corporate headquarters and the prominent "MetLife'' sign atop the building will remain in place.
		Earlier in the week, MetLife sold the original MetLife building, an ornate architectural confection and Manhattan landmark for nearly a century, to SL Green Realty Corp. as part of a $918 million deal.
		The sales follow MetLife's Feb. 1 announcement that it was acquiring Travelers Life & Annuity Co. for at least $11.5 billion from Citigroup Inc. At the time, MetLife said it would finance the deal, in part, with assets sales including equity real estate investments.
	www.insurancejournal.com /news/east/2005/04/03/53257.htm?print=1 (260 words)

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