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	Kahere Eila Poultry Farming School Koliagbe, Guinea - Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1999-2001
		Soon afterwards, Bachir, then in Canada, received a phone call from Kivekäs: she proposed that he return to Koliagbe near Kindia, a town 120 kilometres inland from the coast of Guinea, and create, with her support, the poultry project that Alpha had discussed with her.
		The tallest columns, those of the classroom porch, are made of four posts fastened by intermediate wooden blocks and steel bolts, an economical way of overcoming a shortage of long pieces of hardwood.
		Sophisticated structural elements - columns and trusses - are made of composite timber and metal, strengthening the materials available to local craftsmen.
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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - World's tallest structures (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For many millennia the record holder for world's tallest structure was clearly defined (see table below.) However, there has been much debate as to the ranking of the world's tallest structures since the middle of the 20th century, chiefly depending on the criteria used for selecting the structures admissible to the list.
		The tallest currently standing structure is the KVLY-TV mast near Mayville, North Dakota, at 629 m (2,063 ft).
		Another example of a structure that's not self-supporting is a long rope tethered to the ground on one end and to a helium balloon on the other.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/World%27s_tallest_building (1136 words)

	World's tallest structures information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world.
		The tallest currently standing structure, including those structures which are partially under water, is the Mars Platform in the Gulf of Mexico, at 990.6 m (3,250 ft).
		The tallest tower built of wood is currently the transmission tower of the transmitter Gliwice in Poland at 118 meters.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/World's_tallest_structures?redir=1 (1989 words)

	Top Literature - Tallest structures in Canada
		This is a list of the tallest structures in Canada, measured from base to the tallest point.
		There is a separate list for guyed masts since their heights are not fully verifiable and may in fact be off by several meters.
		- several are measured to the height of the tallest transmitter on the mast, but this is not necessarily the tallest point of the tower.
	encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=Tallest_structures_in_Canada (126 words)

	Great towers of the world
		The structure is designed to withstand a wind velocity of 200 miles per hour, but storms occasionally force the facility to close.
		Begun in 1173, the eight-story round tower is 55 m (180 ft) tall and 16 m (52 ft) in diameter at the base.
		This tower took 200 years to build because of structural problems, By the time the first three stories were completed, one side of the tower had already begun to sink into the soft soil, and construction was halted for nearly 100 years.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~ggasiewi/greattowers.htm (301 words)

	Weidlinger: Fabric Structures (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Structural analysis of sculpture consisting of a web of steel tubes, 43 feet high, supported on three posts and held in tension by a cable network.
		Cost savings for truck-transportable tensile structure (folding orchestra-size stage, fabric roof cover, supported by 3 crane/trusses) to be used in city parks.
		Air-stiffened fabric roof structure 145 feet in diameter for outdoor theater, the first of its kind in the country.
	www.wai.com /Structures/Projects/projs-fabric.html (713 words)

	Common Summer Wildflowers of W.Va.
		The flowers are located in the hollow of a heart-Shaped, leaflike structure called a "spathe." Each flower lasts for only a few hours during the day, giving the name day-flower.
		Butterfly weed is a member of the milkweed family with characteristic flower structure of five turned down petals and central crown.
		The 1/2-inch-wide, heavily scented flowers produce large amounts of nectar and are in clusters at the top of the plant and in the leaf junction or axils of the upper leaves.
	www.wvu.edu /~agexten/hortcult/flowers/wldflwrs.htm (9313 words)

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		Canada is a country that is very big, and kinda cold.
		In Canada, we want to dump the monarchy very badly, this is different than most of the British colonies, you see, the Queen maintains loyalty to her with a hypno-ray (and you thought she was just waving!).
		Canada was used as a place of security for African Americans during...
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	Toronto, Canada
		The biggest city in Canada and the fifth largest in North America, Toronto is located on the northern shore of Lake Ontario.
		One of the only remaining structures from this era is Historic Campbell House, located on the northwest corner of Queen Street West and University in the downtown area.
		John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (now Ontario), set up a strategically well-positioned but swampy garrison town of 12 cottages on the lakeshore around the former French post and, in 1793, the town was named Fort York in honour of the Duke of York.
	worldfacts.us /Canada-Toronto.htm (2335 words)

	Structural Engineering
		Structural engineers are generally involved in the most "visible" of the civil engineering projects.
		The 4th tallest buidling is the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, China, at 1379 ft with 88 stories to be completed in 1998.
		The tallest of these is the X-Seed 4000, proposed to be 800 stories and 13,123 ft tall; this is followed by the Try 2004 and Aeropolis 2001 buildings at 400 and 500 stories each and approximately 6570 ft tall.
	www.colorado.edu /engineering/civil/CVEN1317/resources/struct.html (1977 words)

	CN Tower, Attractions of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
		Canada's CN Tower is the tallest land-based free-standing structure in the world, at 553.33 metres (1,815.39 feet).
		It is located in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is considered the signature icon of the city.
		The structure's microwave receivers for distant signals are housed at 338 metres, and the top of the transmission antenna is at the apex of the tower.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /Canada/canada-interest-ontario-toronto-cntower.html (1194 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The CN Tower, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the world's tallest freestanding structure on land, standing 553.33 metres (1,815 ft 5 in) tall.
		Concrete was poured continuously by a team of 1,537 people until February 22, 1974, during which it had already become the tallest structure in Canada, surpassing the recently built Superstack which was built using similar methods.
		There are also many guyed towers taller than the CN Tower, the current tallest being the KVLY-TV tower in North Dakota at 628 metres (2,063 ft) tall (see List of masts), but these are guy-wire supported structures (which are essentially very tall frameworks that support TV lines) and hence, are not classified as free-standing.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=CN_Tower (2809 words)

	World's tallest structures Information
		In terms of absolute height, most of the tallest structures are dozens of radio and television broadcasting towers that are around 610 meters (2,000 feet) tall.
		A competing on-going project for the world's tallest is the 474 m (1,555 ft) Union Square Phase 7 in Hong Kong, also scheduled for completion in 2007.
		When completed it will be the tallest building in Pakistan and the 2nd tallest building in the world, first being Burj Dubai.
	www.bookrags.com /World%27s_tallest_structures (1712 words)

	Katie's Acid Rain Page
		This is because Canada blames the United States for some of its acid rain problems that occur in the southeastern portion of their country.
		Speaking of Canada and its acid rain problems, Sudbury, Ontario is a city in Canada that suffered some of the worst acid rain problems EVER.
		With a nickel mine that boasts one of the world's tallest smokestacks at 381 meters, acid rain complications got so bad there that virtually all of the topsoil was damaged and washed away, leaving bedrock exposed.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/ce221/acidrain2.html (497 words)

	SUPER SKYSCRAPERS
		Skyscrapers are giant structures built because of the high price of land and the limited space made it necessary to build upwards.
		Above is Toronto, Canada's largest city with a population expected to surpass 5.0 million by 2000!!Here, you can see Toronto's tallest buildings clustered together in the heart of Canada's financial district.
		This is the 2nd tallest building in Canada (located in Toronto), is one of the world's tallest (1000Ft) tall.
	www.angelfire.com /al2/can/SKYSCRAPERS.html (248 words)

	List of Tallest Buildings and Structures In the World By Country Encyclopedia Information @ Attempted.net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The list directly includes the tallest buildings and structures for each country, and where appropriate, it also points to more detailed country-specific lists.
		Jin Mao tower, 88 floors, current tallest building in China and 5th tallest on earth, 421 meters.
		International Commerce Centre, tallest building in the administrative special region of Hong Kong, on completion it would be Hong Kong's 6th 1,000 feet (305 meter) skyscraper at 484 meters, no other city in the world would have more 1,000 (305 meter) feet skyscrapers.
	www.attempted.net /encyclopedia/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_the_world_by_country (1310 words)

	Canada Science and Technology Museum
		Two structures with which children are familiar are bridges and towers.
		Wooden trestle bridges were essential to the passage of the railway through the mountains in western Canada.
		The CN Tower, in Toronto, at 553 metres, is still the tallest free-standing structure in the world.
	www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca /english/schoolzone/Info_structures.cfm (953 words)

	CN Tower
		Canada's CN Tower is the tallest land-based free-standing structure in the world, at 553.33 metres (1,815.39 feet).
		Emporis ranks the buildings by highest architectural structural element, which means [1]: height of spire, statues (or any other architecturally integral element) count towards the height of the building height of antenna, flagpole (or other detail not classified as architecturally integral element) does not count towards the height of the building roof height is...
		Tallest Structure by Category Skytower - Auckland New Zealand - Free standing tower 328m The tallest currently standing structure, including those structures which are partially under water, is the Mars Platform in the Gulf of Mexico, at 990.6 m (3,250 ft).
	www.experiencefestival.com /cn_tower (2092 words)

	Burj Dubai: Tallest Building in The World, Taller Than Most Things
		This used to impress me until Popular Science ran a story about this a couple years back that indicated that there are three measurements for the tallest building prize: highest point (radio tower), highest building point (where the radio tower bolts to the roof), and highest occupied floor.
		So second place isn't bad, considering we've had had the title of tallest on three of our buildings and mostly all are still in the top 10 (with the exception of WTC of course).
		While the structure is impressive, what bugs me the most about it is that there is no sense of city planning.
	gizmodo.com /gadgets/burj-dubai/tallest-building-in-the-world-taller-than-most-things-281122.php (3164 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Tallest (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The third highest mountain in the world, it has five peaks, of which the tallest is 28,169 ft (8,586 m).
		POST DEBATE: Latest chapter of the tallest storey in town; Birmingham was once set to be the home of Britain's tallest building.
		POST DEBATE: Latest chapter of the tallest storey in town ; Birmingham was once set to be the home of Britain's tallest building.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Tallest&StartAt=41 (824 words)

	The world's tallest towers
		The tallest building in the world, Taipei 101, was completed in 2004.
		They are ranked by structural height, measured from the base to the "highest architectural or integral structural element of the building." (Spires count, but not antennae.) But the list only includes buildings, not communications towers or other structures, which is why Toronto's CN Tower doesn't make the cut, galling as that may be to Canadians.
		At a height of 553.33m (1,815 ft., 5 inches), Canada’s National CN Tower is the world's tallest tower...Just dont copy from somewhere and paste it...verify...
	www.rediff.com /money/2006/may/08forbes1.htm?q=tp (969 words)

	Tallest
		tallest • tallest man in the world • yao ming • sun ming ming • one of the tallest living persons on the planet • robert wadlow pershing
		tallest • titanic • egypt • egyptian • princess • amen-ra
		tallest • unst • hermaness • muckle • flugga • shetland
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	Canada Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		The structures that first catch your eye are the Centre Block and a separate Peace Tower.
		The present structures, completed by 1927, are the replacements to those originals, using the Gothic Revival style of architecture similar to that used in Britain's capital.
		The 92-m (300-ft) tower is constructed of sandstone from a nearby quarry and it houses both a clock and a carillon for chiming out tunes on its various bells.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/North_America/Canada/Things_To_Do-Canada-R-1.html (2811 words)

	crane
		Bringing the whooping crane back from the brink of extinction to the 335 birds that exist today is largely due to the actions of concerned individuals and organizations in Canada and the U.S. working together since the late forties.
		Whooping cranes are the tallest birds in North America.
		An informal network of enthusiasts throughout Canada and the U.S. report sightings each spring and fall along the migration route, helping officials keep track of crane numbers.
	www.fws.gov /Endangered/canada/crane.htm (1054 words)

	As Good As Being There: Canada
		Galaxyland (home to the world's tallest interior roller coaster) is an amusement park located near the centre of the mall; World Waterpark and WEM's Adventure Golf are located in the west end; and Ice Palace is directly in the centre.
		At 553.33 metres (1,815.39 feet), the Canadian National Tower is the tallest tower and freestanding structure in the world.
		It is located in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is considered the signature icon of the city.
	outhouserag.typepad.com /asgoodasbeingthere/canada/index.html (991 words)

	the highwayman: Race for dominance in tallest structures!
		Many tall buildings and structures were built as the years went on and the record changed many hands, but I will only pick the ones that brought visible changes in height race.
		Shortly after that in 1975, Canada said it was never late and built CN Tower (553 m) that kept the record of the tallest structure till last year.
		Canada's attempt to built the CN tower started as quite an honest beginning to build a Communications tower.
	aibek.nomadlife.org /2008/01/race-for-dominance-in-tallest.aspx (761 words)

	Canada photo gallery
		Toronto is the most populous and the largest city of Canada with metropolitan area population of close to six million (near 20% of total population of Canada!).
		Windsor is almost the southernmost city of Canada and it is separated from Detroit (the largest city of Michigan) by the Detroit river.
		While the cold and long winter of Canada, generally can not be considered as an attraction, but if one looks well, it is possible to find beauty in snow and ice also.
	www.hanifworld.com /canadaphotos.htm (1050 words)

	World's tallest structures - Definition, explanation
		The Warsaw radio mast at Gabin-Konstantynow near Warsaw, Poland at 645 m (2,115 ft) was taller, but it collapsed on August 8th, 1991.
		in case of bad weather as rope structures carried by a balloon to the sky.
		Maharishi Mahesh Yogi announced his own "world's tallest" proposal, the 677m-tall pyramid-shaped World Centre of Vedic Learning, in 1998.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/w/wo/world_s_tallest_structures.php (1334 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Canada
		Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Burj Dubai, the world's tallest skyscraper, is facing construction delays of at least a year after a leading contractor on the project went bankrupt, leaving the tower without any external walls.
		The world's tallest building is currently the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan, measuring 1,671 feet, excluding masts, and with 101 stories, according to the Emporis Buildings architectural statistics database.
		Among freestanding structures, the 1,815-foot CN Tower in Toronto is the tallest on land and the Petronius oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, operated by Chevron Corp. and Marathon Oil Corp., the tallest overall at 2,001 feet.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aOeHntJt._Wc&refer=canada (724 words)

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