Did You Know?

DID YOU KNOW?: ARCHITECTURE....

1) Architecture used to be an Olympic sport
2) LEGO used to make special bricks for architects
3) The Cooper Union Foundation building in New York was built with an elevator shaft, before the modern elevator had been invented
4) There are ten million bricks in the Empire State Building
5) Dendrochronology is used today to date when historical buildings were constructed
6) Many houses in the rural districts of Nepal are constructed of cow dung mixed with mud, sand, and clay
7) The base of the Great Pyramid in Egypt is large enough to cover ten football fields. According to Herodotus (an ancient Greek historian), it took 400,000 men twenty years to construct the pyramid
8) A bridge in Lima, Peru around 1610 was made of mortar mixed with 10,000 egg whites instead of water. The bridge still stands today
9) England's Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome's Colosseum
10) The Hoover Dam is 726 feet tall and 660 feet thick at its base. Enough rock was excavated in its construction to build the Great Wall of China
11) There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower
12) The worlds largest Gothic cathedral is New York City's St. John the Divine. It measures 601 feet long, 146 feet wide, and has a transept measuring 320 feet from end to end.


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