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  Tower - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A tower is a high structure, usually man-made.
for spreading sound: church tower with church bells, minaret of a mosque
A tower wagon is a mobile tower for construction work, firefighting, rescue work, window cleaning, filming, etc.
open-encyclopedia.com /Tower   (174 words)

  
 Tower Article, Tower Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
for security against coming in or getting out: a watch tower at a prison, concentration camp, fortress / castle, border / defensive wall ; in some of these cases also to firefrom;
for spreading sound : church tower with church bells, minaret of a mosque
note: in some parts of the English-speaking world, skyscrapers are notthought of as towers; however in the UK, tall domestic buildings are referred to as tower blocks and in the USAthe now-destroyed New York World Trade Center has the nicknamethe Twin Towers, a moniker it shares with the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
www.anoca.org /towers/world/tower.html   (278 words)

  
 TerranceZepke.com
Some of the tales are grounded in library research of old newspaper clippings; the rest are retold as they were recited to me. Some are well known, with many adaptations, and some have seldom, if ever, been heard.
Author Terrance Zepke has collected stories of how lighthouses were built in the 1700s and 1800s, how light keepers lived, and how lighthouses have weathered hurricanes, erosion, and neglect.
Traveling from North Carolina’s Currituck Lighthouse near the Virginia border to South Carolina’s Haig Point Lighthouse near the border of Georgia, Zepke weaves tales of light tower builders, Civil War soldiers, and even pirates.
www.terrancezepke.com   (681 words)

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