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Oh, the Leaning Tower of Pisa — so touristy and yet so fun. Each day, hordes of visitors come to the small northwestern Tuscan town of Pisa to take pictures "propping up" its tower. Some do it ...

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Did you know the Leaning Tower of Pisa started in August 1173? It has made it through at least four big earthquakes. The tower was meant to be a grand bell tower. But it began to lean just five ...

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A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

1 Seaport was six hundred and seventy feet tall, and leaning. For as long as humans have made towers, some have leaned. The Tower of Pisa started settling unevenly on its shallow foundation not ...

When we talk about buildings that tilt captivatingly, you might immediately think of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy. But there are lots of buildings that slope, some quite alarmingly ...

Built on the shifting sands of a former estuary, the Leaning Tower of Pisa probably began tilting not long after medieval laborers laid its first foundation stones. In the 800 years since ...