Leaning Tower of Pisa
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Closed to the public in 1990, the tower was reopened in the early twenty-first century after engineers reduced the rate of inclination by about sixteen inches.
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The difference: Your guests won’t have to feign enthusiasm after the thirtieth photo of you “holding up” the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Who demonstrated the principle of universality of free fall by dropping two spheres of the same volume but different masses off the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
From Slate • Jan. 25, 2024
Liverpool was named a World Heritage Site in 2004, joining cultural landmarks such as the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2021
People have taken to posing for photographs in which they pretended to be holding it up, much as tourists do with the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2020
“The very same engineers who dealt with the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... which was where?”
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
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