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Titans Threaten Greatest Liberty

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

You may not realize that the Statue of Liberty is the tallest statue in North America: 151 feet from sandal-bottom to torch-tip. Other people, however, are keenly aware of that measurement. They intend to top it.
Last year David Adickes was in the news, with his dream of building a 280-foot-tall cowboy. This [...]

Big Gusher Yearns for Cartoon Mapdom

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Shane Jett is a 33-year-old Oklahoma state representative who’s up for reelection on November 4. His opponent, a 22-year-old machinist, says that he decided to run against Jett because of an idea that Jett proposed last November: he wants to build a $100 million, 1,100-foot-tall fake oil derrick to straddle the Oklahoma River.
Jett first [...]

Take That, Mound-Builders Of Yore

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

For reasons currently unknown, the People Who Were Here Before Us built mounds all over the United States. Building a big mound is more complicated than it may seem, and only in recent years have the People Who Are Here Now been able to pile up mounds of similar grandeur — and turn them [...]

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