Leaning Tower of Pisa
The story of history's most famous leaning tower
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Show Notes
Taking 200 years to build the Leaning Tower of Pisa is one of the world's most iconic structures. Built in wet soil, engineers have been fighting gravity for nearly a thousand years. And seemingly by sheer willpower, the structure still stands today.
Sources
https://www.towerofpisa.org/; https://www.britannica.com/topic/Leaning-Tower-of-Pisa
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pisa/interventions.html
Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa_in_the_1890s.jpg
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