Big tall buildings : ) isn't general knowledge amazing ; )

Did you know during the "Fire of London" they had to blow up and destroy many huge or tall buildings ; simply to starve the fire of a spreading fuel source ???

Did you know when they built the World tallest " Twin Towers " in Asia (sorry; damn unreliable memory) [maybe Taiwan ???] they could not do it except by creating a competition between to rival groups...

The Korean's dislike the Japanese etc, so the project managers created a competition between rival cultures to profit and have their skyscrapers built in record time and without industrial delay...

Did you know most of America's landmark record history making projectswere simply ripoffs, scams or public relations coups ???

Remember the blockbuster movie "Blackhawk Down" ? well yes, America did have military personnel in Somalia ; but the rest of the movie ? ... It made a lot of money, but its connection with reality was tenuous at best : )

Who will forget the Pentagon upmarketing the female soldier for taking on those rebels , that she was recklessly and unnessarily endangering her whole unit did not deter the PR Public Relations specialists who infest the Pentagon. If only these marketeers could help the military actually WIN wars ; )

Remember, the Ford motor company ; not a nice group of people to upset, the National Guard shot and killed many auto workers decades ago ; cannot have citizens coming between profit. Panama Canal ? Hover Dam more success stories of horrors ignored for profit...

But I love the history of the Empire State Building, it was already 'rented out' space leases were signed, it HAD to open 'on budget' and "on time" there were literally hundreds of desperate unemployed persons standing outside the workplace job site waiting for employed workers to fall to their deaths ; simply so they could get work to feed their family's.

Yep; Home of the Brave, the Land of Opportunity : )

/ hugz ; )