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The Piraeus Tower or Piraeus Merchant Shipping Center is an 84 meter high building located in Piraeus. It is the second tallest building in Greece, after the similar architecture of the Tower of Athens. The construction of the building began in 1972 according to plans by Ioannis Vikelas, Demosthenes Molfesis and Alexandros Loizos.
Texas Towers were a set of three radar facilities off the eastern seaboard of the United States which were used for surveillance by the United States Air Force during the Cold War. Modeled on the offshore oil drilling platforms first employed off the Texas coast, they were in operation from 1958 to 1963. After the collapse of one of the towers ...
Texas has been the leading state in petroleum production since discovery of the Spindletop oil field in 1901. [11] As of October 2017, the State of Texas (if treated as its own nation) is the 7th largest oil producing nation in the world, with production totaling approximately 3.78 million barrels (600 thousand cubic meters ) per day of oil ...
In the early 450s BC, fighting began between Athens and various Peloponnesian allies of Sparta, particularly Corinth and Aegina.In the midst of this fighting between 462 BC and 458 BC, Athens had begun construction of two more walls, the Long Walls, one running from the city to the old port at Phalerum, the other to the newer port at Piraeus.
Barge slams into Galveston bridge in Texas, causing partial collapse and shutdown David K. Li and Juliette Arcodia and Rebecca Cohen and John Filippelli May 15, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Texas Tower 4 (ADC ID: TT-4) was a United States Air Force Texas Tower General Surveillance Radar station, located 63 miles (101 km) south-southeast off the coast of Long Island, New York in 185 feet (56 m) of water. [1] Hurricane Donna struck the tower in September 1960, seriously damaging it.
The Texas Department of Transportation had been scheduled in the summer of 2025 to begin construction on a project to replace the bridge with a new one. The project was estimated to cost $194 million.
Early estimates indicate up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas ...