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  2. Home Insurance Building - Wikipedia

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    Originally ten stories and 138 ft (42.1 m) tall, it was designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1884 and completed the next year. Two floors were added in 1891, bringing its now finished height to 180 feet (54.9 meters).

  3. List of tallest trees - Wikipedia

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    Other researchers have developed models of maximum height for Coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii) trees that yield similar estimates of 109–138 meters (357–452 feet), [47] a range that includes the height of the tallest reliably-measured historical (dead) specimen, a 126-meter tree. [47] [48] [49]

  4. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    18.44 meters – distance between the front of the pitcher's rubber and the rear point of home plate on a baseball field (60 feet, 6 inches) [125] 20 meters – length of cricket pitch (22 yards) [126] 27.43 meters – distance between bases on a baseball field (90 feet) 28 meters – length of a standard FIBA basketball court; 28.65 meters ...

  5. Secret tunnel found on U.S.-Mexico border to be sealed off - AOL

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    The tunnel, concealed with wooden panels and hidden access through a sewer, measured approximately 300 meters on the Mexican side, with dimensions of 1.80 meters in height and 1.20 meters in width.

  6. List of tallest buildings and structures - Wikipedia

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    Now called the Willis Tower since 2009, it was 1,451 feet (442 meters) to its flat rooftop, or 1,518 feet (463 meters) including its original antennas. [22] But in 1978 One World Trade Center (commonly known as the North Tower) attained a taller absolute height when it added its 360-foot (110 m) new broadcasting antenna, for a total height of ...

  7. List of motor yachts by length - Wikipedia

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    This list of motor yachts by length, is a table of the world's longest active superyachts, with an overall length of at least 75 metres (246 ft) and up.. These boats are also known as "megayachts", "gigayachts" and even "terayachts", usually depending on length.

  8. 50 Times People Couldn’t Believe Their Luck In Thrift Stores

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    He's hollow but still very heavy and about 3 feet tall. Need to repair the damage to his ear and then his largeness can grace our garden. Image credits: Is that Wired or Wonderful thing #20.

  9. List of longest wooden ships - Wikipedia

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    1.1 Over 100 meters (328 feet) 1.2 100–90 meters (328–295 feet) 1.3 89–80 meters (291–262 feet) ... This galleon featured 138 guns, and space for 650 marines ...