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  2. List of tallest clock towers - Wikipedia

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    6th tallest freestanding clock tower in the world. A UNESCO World Heritage site [60] 44: Allen-Bradley Clock Tower: 85.3 m (280 ft) 4: Yes: 1963: Tower Building: Clock Tower: USA: Milwaukee: Clock faces are 12.25 m (40.2 ft) [61] 45: Manchester Town Hall: 85.3 m (280 ft) 4: Yes: 1877: Tower Building: Government: United Kingdom: Manchester ...

  3. List of clock towers - Wikipedia

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    A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...

  4. List of tallest buildings - Wikipedia

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    The Clock Towers: 601.0 1,972 120 (+ 3 below ground) Mecca Saudi Arabia: 2012 Tallest building in Saudi Arabia, tallest clock tower and contains the highest museum in the world [18] 5 Ping An International Finance Centre: 599.1 1,966 115 (+ 5 below ground) Shenzhen China: 2017 [19] 6 Lotte World Tower: 554.5 1,819 123 (+ 6 below ground) Seoul ...

  5. Prague astronomical clock - Wikipedia

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    Two projectors were used to project several animated videos on the clock. The videos showed it being built, torn down, rebuilt, and peeled away to show its internal mechanisms and the famous animated figures, as well as various events in the clock's history. The video interacted with the tower's architecture, such as rain rolling off the arch ...

  6. Al Roker Reveals His Unconventional Prep for His Daily ‘Today ...

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    During an appearance Thursday, Feb. 20, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the host asked Roker how he gets ready for his daily appearances on the Today show. Roker’s answer is bound to ...

  7. Clock tower - Wikipedia

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    The tallest freestanding clock tower in the world is the Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower (Old Joe) at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, United Kingdom. [8] The tower stands at 100 metres (330 feet) tall and was completed in 1908. The clock tower of Philadelphia City Hall was part of the tallest building in the world from 1894 ...

  8. List of tallest freestanding structures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of tallest freestanding structures in the world past and present. To be freestanding a structure must not be supported by guy wires , the sea or other types of auxiliary support. It therefore does not include guyed masts , partially guyed towers and drilling platforms but does include towers , skyscrapers ( pinnacle height) and ...

  9. List of tallest towers - Wikipedia

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    Tallest tower in the world since 2010 2: Canton Tower: 604 m (1,982 ft) 2010: Steel & concrete China: Guangzhou: Was briefly the tallest tower in the world in 2010. Second tallest tower in the world. 3: CN Tower: 553.3 m (1,815 ft) 1976: Concrete Canada: Toronto: Tallest freestanding structure in the world 1975–2007, and the world's tallest ...