The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., dedicated to George Washington, was completed on Dec. 6, 1884, after nearly four ...

The aluminum cap at the very tip of the Monument represented innovative metallurgy for the time. DC building height laws restrict most buildings to no more than 160 feet tall. As a freestanding ...

At times, when the tiny droplets abounded, meteorologists measured the height of the clouds as no more than 600 feet. That was not much above the top of the Washington Monument. Astronomical ...

The Washington Monument, the Empire State Building ... Price: $32 admission. Built at the height of the Gilded Age by a Vanderbilt, this expansive estate outside Asheville mimics France’s ...

In the early summer of 1888, despite all the criticism and doubt the project received, the 300m-tall (or 984ft-tall) structure opened to the public, surpassing the Washington Monument as the ... the ...

The view is over the grounds here to the Washington Monument, and then the Mall and ... It was back in the early eighties, at the height of the boat people. And the sailor was hard at work on ...

Johnny Cash will soon be seen in the unlikeliest of venues, with a statue of the famed singer about to be unveiled at the U.S ...

Hughes mistakenly reported, "This is no studio mock-up; the actual national monument serves as the scene in those last terrifying moments of sliding down the neck and chest of George Washington ...

A plaque on the building marks the occasion, as does the flag on top, whose tip represents the original height of the hill ..

Among proposed turbines, average tip heights are 206 metres, an increase of 42 metres from 2022, easily surpassing iconic national man-made structures such as the Gateway Arch (192 metres), Washington ...

A revealing new documentary could redefine our understanding of the pop icon. But you will probably never get to see it.

Between the Mediterranean islands, mosque- and monument-filled Istanbul and the ... Istanbul's city of 14 million can be overwhelming during the height of the summer tourist season; in the winter ...