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	<title>A World of Buildings</title>
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	<description>exploring fascinating facts and figures through the eyes of a boy</description>
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		<title>Reliance Building, Chicago, Illinois</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Reliance Building was completed in 1894 and still stands today. At 200 feet (61 meters), it&#8217;s still a pretty impressive building for being built in 1894. The way its windows were made was one of the first of its kind, because the design gave excellent heating in the winter  months. When it was built (in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aworldofbuildings.com/?p=532</link>
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		<title>Home Insurance Building &#8211; Chicago, Illinois</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Home Insurance Building was basically the first building made with steel. And at 180 feet (55 meters) it still was nothing like some of the buildings of today, but for the 1880&#8242;s it was a magnificent structure. The main reason it was built was because of a huge fire that destroyed over 17,000 buildings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aworldofbuildings.com/?p=497</link>
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		<title>My Sears Tower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Mom has been wanting me to build some buildings out of Legos, so I decided to try it with the Sears Tower. Although I didn&#8217;t make it all in black, it&#8217;s almost to scale. Here are some pictures: . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aworldofbuildings.com/?p=506</link>
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		<title>Washington Monument, Washington D.C.</title>
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		<link>http://www.aworldofbuildings.com/?p=482</link>
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		<title>Eiffel Tower, Paris, France</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although it&#8217;s not a building, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest man-made structure until 1930 (when the Chrysler Building was built.) The Eiffel Tower was constructed from 1887-1889 and held the record for tallest structure for 41 years. The Eiffel Tower is 986 feet (300 meters) tall, and 1,063 feet (324 meters) tall to the top of the antenna. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aworldofbuildings.com/?p=462</link>
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		<title>Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Two International Finance Centre ( TIFC ) is the tallest building in Hong Kong. It&#8217;s mostly offices, but also has retail and a parking garage. You may be wondering why it&#8217;s called two International Finance Centre; that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s the second IFC building in this complex &#8211; Two IFC being the taller at 1,335 feet (407 meters) tall and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aworldofbuildings.com/?p=448</link>
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		<title>Citigroup Center (Los Angeles)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Citigroup Center, which used to be called 444 Flower Building, is an office building rising 625 feet (191 meters). This is equivalent to 48 floors. It was built in 1977 and is the 42nd tallest building in the world. The 83,000 square meters in area is used for offices. It&#8217;s positioned right next to the US Bank Tower, which somewhat dwarfs the Citigroup Center. Its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aworldofbuildings.com/?p=426</link>
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		<title>Marina City, Chicago, Illinois</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marina City is a 61 story mixed-use facility. The buildings are each 587 feet (179 meters) tall. The bottom 19 floors are a parking garage; there are 896 parking spaces per building and the 21st through 60th floors are apartments. You may be wondering why I didn&#8217;t say what the 20th floor was &#8211; that&#8217;s because the 20th floor isn&#8217;t apartments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aworldofbuildings.com/?p=409</link>
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		<title>The Woolworth Building, New York, USA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Woolworth Building (which is no longer owned by Woolworth &#8211; who owned it for 85 years, but went out of business in 1998) was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930 at 792 feet (241 meters) tall. It is located in New York City, and has 57 floors and 32 elevators. When Frank Woolworth bought the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aworldofbuildings.com/?p=388</link>
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		<title>Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video is of Rodger Federer &#38; Andre Aggassi playing tennis on the Burj Al Arab Hotel&#8217;s HELICOPTER PAD! It&#8217;s pretty funny.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aworldofbuildings.com/?p=375</link>
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