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Nov 19, 2008
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Leaning Tower

The one at Pisa, in Italy, is 178 feet in height, and leans about 14 feet. At Caerphilly, in Glamorganshire, there is a tower which leans eleven feet in eighty.

“The Leaning Tower of Pisa continues to stand because the vertical line drawn through its centre of gravity passes within its base.” —Ganot: Physics.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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