The Empire State Building

I m sure you will, old girl. But they re very grand—very special pictures—and they re safe in San Francisco in a big gallery. One day we ll go and find them, shall we Even Uncle Gareth s smell made me know he meant it, and we would go. One day, when you re older. And when we dock in New York, we ll ride up and down in the lifts in the Empire State Building. ... 

Phased development This approach is sometimes known as the Empire State Building take a small vertical slice as far as you can as early as possible in order to get early feedback. Build the rest gradually around it. Phased development is possible if the design is well decoupled. 

Dropping Pennies front the Empire State Building... 

One question Fm repeatedly asked deals with death. New York City, and pennies. Just the other day, Teja from Slovenia asked me If I accidentally drop a penny from the Empire State Building, would it kill someone walking on the street below Would it literally go through the skull and brain and out the bottom of the chin My friend Nina accidentally dropped a penny and has been worried ever since. ... 

Occasionally, some of the topics or puzzles in this book will seem simple or frivolous, including dropping pennies from the Empire State Building or wondering if Jesus could calculate 43 x 31. However, these are questions that fans have often posed to me, and I love some of these quirkies the best. I agree with the Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest who said Ask questions. Don t be afraid to appear stupid. The stupid questions are usually the best and hardest to answer. They force the speaker to think about the basic problem. ... 

PROBLEM 13.25 In which direction does the equilibrium Hb + 02 Hb(02) shift on taking an elevator to the top of the Empire State Building Explain. 

Though you are going to visit New York City. you simply must stop by the Empire State Building and see one of the most amazing viewpoints in the entire city. 

This is huge. It is a cube as tall as the Empire State Building on all three sides. Pollution gets scary if you think of it as being all in one place rather than diluted by the Earth s atmosphere. 

Santa Claus character all represent urban cynicism. They fulfill the role of antagonist, not in the sense that the main character hates them, but rather in terms of the social and psychological attitude they represent. They have given up hope. The plot, the effort to save the world by throwing money from the top of the Empire State Building, is not a success. So Fupper s conversion of Amanda, the effort to rescue her, to offer her his love, becomes his offer of hope. To save one person without hope is to save the world. This is the moral of the Granofsky/Swanhaus screenplay. It is unusual in that we care about the fate of those who represent hopelessness, the antagonists in the narrative. 

Thomas disappears into the Empire State Building. As he trails off down the hallway, satchel in hand, the camera PANS UP to the top of the Empire State Building. 

CLOSE-UP on a framed postcard of King Kong scaling the side of the Empire State Building. SCREAMS and HOWLS blare from off-screen. The camera DOLLIES OVER to Amanda, who stands at the kitchen sink, plate in hand, carefully listening to an old transistor radio which rests on the window sill. A NEWS CASTER continues ... 

Spitz, Petrochemicals, pp. 220—224 Travis, Dyes Made in America, pp. 92—95 J. S. Berman, The Empire State Building (Barnes Noble, New York, 2003), pp. 22-27. 

A1 Capone stood by the long window wall of the mayor s office, and looked out at the city. It was a magnificent view. He couldn t remember being so high off the ground in his life before. This skyscraper made the Empire State Building look puny for God s sake. And it wasn t even the tallest in the city. 

The exterior of the Empire State Building completed one year later (1931), only a few blocks from the Chrysler Building, was made of stainless steel, gray limestone, and dark gray aluminum. Over 3001 of 1.3-mm-thick Type302 stainless steel have been used for its construction. This historic landmark with a height of 282 m was the world s tallest building for 41 years. The stainless steel was estimated to be in excellent condition 70 years after the construction of this historical landmark. 

Thus, a 100-yard football field measures only 91.4 meters. The meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the North Pole (through Paris). The International Bureau of Weights and Measures now defines it more precisely as the distance light travels through a vacuum in a certain period of time, 1/299,792,458 second. A tall human is about 2 m taU and the Empire State Building stands 443 m tall (inclnding its mast). 

The Empire State Building, New York City, with a height of 1250 feet. At the time of its construction, it was the world s tallest building by 20 stories. 

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