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Landmarks and Monuments
Landmarks are features or places that are highly recognizable. They were originally used to track locations, but they have also become famous as tourist areas. There are people that will save their entire lives to make a trip just to see the Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, or the Great Wall.
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How was the Stonehenge discovery?
Stonehenge has never actually been discovered because it was never lost. Since it was built people have always known were it was, even the Romans knew of its existence. The only real mystery is that knowbody can be absolutely certain why it was built and what its indended purpose was.
How many visitors visit big ben year round?
According to the National Parks Service, the annual number of recreational "visitations" to Big Bend has been on the order of 300,000 since 1991. In 2013 the NPS reports 316,953 such visitations.
Note that this is the number of times a person has entered the park for a recreational visit. If one person visits the park ten times in a calendar year, that counts as ten visitations.
What is the size of the Big Ben?
Big Ben dimensions Height: 96.3 meters (316 feet) The hour hand of Big Ben is 9 feet long and the minutes hand is 14 feet long Clock has a diameter of 23 feet The numerals are 2 feet high each
What do people think of Stonehenge?
Obviously different people think different things about Stonehenge. Some people think it was an astonomical calendar, others a ritual/religious site and yet others think it was a UFO landing site. There is no absolute proof of what its original purpose was so you make up your own mind or just keep an open mind, its your choice.
That depends on if one is afraid of heights. If so, then yes, the London Eye can be frightening. The Eye does, however, move slowly, and the people travelling on are encased in 'pods', rather than hanging freely as would be the case on a 'ferris wheel', so beyond the height, there should be no other reason for fear.
Does the Great Victoria Desert have Ayers Rock?
Ayers Rock (properly called uluru) is the big rock in and of itself, its something in a desert, not the desert itself.
What are examples of famous sites in Venice Italy?
pizza
leaning tower of pizza
itilans
beaches
mafia
cars
the altopedies
How did Romans get water in the colosseum?
There were underground pipes connected to the nearby aqueducts, so that the floor of the colosseum could be flooded to stage full-scale or small-scale naval battles.
The cost of Big Ben was £2401
It should be noted that "Big Ben" is not the tower or the clock but just the bell. The cost of UKP £2,401 is only for casting the bell. There was an adjustment (a credit) of UKP 1,829 from the metal reclaimed from a previous bell. As a result the actual invoice submitted, on 28th May 1858, was for UKP £572.
How long does it take to get to the London eye from big ben?
About 5 minutes, just walk across the bridge.
How did Stonehenge get destroyed?
It didn't. It's still standing, and has been for thousands of years.
Only a couple of pillars have collapsed due to weathering and possibly human disturbance before the Stonehenge became a protected site in modern times.
What is the color of london eye?
this depends if it is night which lights up all different colours or day its just plain white/blue
How many people visit the jules verne i the Eiffel tower?
The Eiffel tower is visited by nearly seven million visitors a year (6,959,186 in 2007).
The Eiffel tower is the world's most visited paying monument.
6 930 000 people visited the Eiffel tower on 2008. The numbers are slightly up each year.
The Eiffel tower is the world's most visited paying monument.
6,959,186 people visited in 2007, and 6,930,000 in 2008.
In 2011, the Eiffel tower had more than 7 million visitors. That represents about a visitor every four seconds, all year round, day and night.
Why was Berlin Wall was Berlin wall so controversial?
The Iron Curtain dividing East and West Germany (and the Eastern Bloc) from the West was completed in 1952. However, there was a gap - in Berlin, where they was freedom of movememt between East and West Berlin. At the Potsdam Conference in 1945 it had been agreed that Berlin was to adminstered as a whole by the four Allies. Of course, with the emergence of the Cold War this became impossible. Refugees and migrants of every kind poured through this gap, and East Germany was rapidly losing skilled people. In 1961 the East German government, in consultation with the Soviet government, built the Berlin Wall, in order to halt migration out of East Germany. It was of course an admission of failure. The Berlin Wall came to have a symbolic and emotional significance that went well beyond its actual importance.
How do you get to big ben by tube?
Well, you walk into the tube station, sit on the tube, ride the tube, get off the tube, wave goodbye to the tube as it slowly descends into the gaping black hole that is the tube tunnel and then get out of thee tube station and prey that by a lucky chance you have picked the correct tube to get to Big Ben. Good Luck.
The "London Eye" began life as an idea in 1993.
The "Sunday Times" started a competition in collaboration with the "Architecture Foundation" to create a new landmark in London for the Millennium.
Husband and Wife Architects, David Marks and Julia Barfield decided to design something with a viewpoint, which was lacking in London. They submitted plans for a viewing wheel in the form of a bicycle wheel. Although there was no winner of the competition they continued to push on with their design. Eventually they founded the "Millennium Wheel Company" and received financial backing from "British Airways" to develop the structure.
Parts for the "Eye" were manufacture in many Countries including France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Czech Republic and of course the UK.
Once the foundations were built on the banks of the River Thames the structure was shipped in in many thousands of pieces and resembled a giant jigsaw puzzle. Some parts were literally shipped up the Thames on barges.
In June 1999 the building began. The sections were put together lying horizontal across the river on temporary floating and fixed pontoons. Work to lift it upright began on 9th October, and eventually by 17th October the wheel was lifted up vertically for the first time using a huge floating crane. This was a mammoth operation in itself.
Although it is designed for permanent fixture it is possible to disassemble and move it to another site if necessary.
The "Eye" was officially opened on 31st December 1999 by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair. However because of technical problems it did not open to the public until March 2000 after many tests and trials.
The "London Eye" is located in Jubilee Gardens on the south bank of the River Thames, next to Westminster Bridge and opposite Big Ben.
The height of the "Eye" is 135 metres and it's circumference is 424 metres. At the time of building it was the tallest observation wheel in the world. It weighs 2100 metric tonnes. It moves at 0.26 metres a second, a quarter of the average walking speed.
There are 32 capsules weighing 10 tonnes each, of which each one can carry 25 people (800 in all). From the top of the "Eye" viewing distance is 40 kilometres on a clear day. Each capsule has a full 360 degree viewing angle. Each rotation takes about 30 minutes.
The A-frame supports the wheel in it's vertical position at a 65 degree angle from one side only, allowing it to be positioned over the river from the bank. It's legs are 58 metres long, the hub is 10 metres long and has a diameter of 4.5 metres. There are 64 spoke cables and 16 rim rotation cables.
It took 16 months to build and cost £75 million but it has made all that money back. Since opening it has taken over 3.5 million visitors a year. In 2010 it celebrated it's 10th birthday.
The "Eye" lets able-bodied visitor step on and off as it's moving but stops to let disabled people board, contrary to the belief it doesn't stop. It also stops at the end of the day.
The "Eye" is managed by the "Merlin Entertainments Group".
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the London Eye, the observation wheel overlooking the River Thames in London, England
How long does the London Eye take to go round once?
Each rotation takes 30 minutes - so in a 24 hour period it would rotate 48 times. However, it doesn't operate 24 hours per day - the opening hours depend on the time of year - more in summer, less in winter.
