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HISTORY OF TOWERS including:
- THE TOWER OF BABEL, BABYLON
“Temple of the foundation of heaven and earth") was the name of a ziggurat dedicated to Marduk in the city of Babylon. It was famously rebuilt by the 6th century BC

- PHAROS, THE LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA
With total height of 120 to 140 meters for more than one and a half millennia the lighthouse was the tallest stone tower in the world.

- TOWERS IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROMES
The column of Trajan in Rome (A.D. 113) nid famous. It is 42.4 meters high and has the classical form of war and triumphal columns.

- ISLAMIC TOWERS
The mosque of Samarra was and is the largest on all mosques 240 X 156 meters 216 supports courtyard 440 X 376 meters.

- TOWERS OF HINDUISM
The temple of the seven pagodas, an eighth century Hindu monument in Mahabalipuram.

- NINTEENTH AND TWEMTIETH CENTURY TOWERS
The campanile of san Marco in venice was erected on the site of a wooden bell towers in 1392, the pper story was redesign in 1512.

- THE EIFFEL TOWER
The Eiffel Tower is named after its designer, Alexendre-Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel was a French civil engineer, specializing in metal structures.

- THE FIRST CONCRETE TOWERS
At the beginning of the twentieth century Le Raincy was a small parish church for suburbs whose population was rapidly growing. In 1918 the abbot of Le Raincy, Felix Nègre, proposed in 1918 to build a church to commemorate the French victory in the Battle of the Marne in 1914. 

- CN TOWER
Canadian National Tower is truly a wonder of modern design, engineering and construction. At a height of 553.33m (1,815 ft, 5 inches), it is the World's Tallest Building and Free- Standing Structure, an important telecommunications hub, and the centre of tourism in Toronto.

- SKYSCRAPERS
Skyscrapers are lean towers on a rectangular or round groung plan, with a height which reaches many times the length of the sides or the diameter.