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13/03/2020

****Just in new rules on people taking exams with Pearson VUE if you have an exam with Pearson VUE in the next few weeks please read****

27/02/2020

Did you know ?? Sydney Opera House sits on Bennelong Point, Bennelong Point was named after Woollarawarre Bennelong, a senior Eora man at the time of the arrival of British colonisers in Australia in 1788.

The original cost estimate to build Sydney Opera House was $7 million. The final cost was $102 million and it was largely paid for by a state lottery.

233 designs were submitted for the Opera House international design competition held in 1956. Jørn Utzon from Demark was announced the winner receiving £5000 for his design.

Construction was expected to take four years but it took 14 years. Work commenced in 1959 and involved 10,000 construction workers.

Paul Robeson was the first person to perform at Sydney Opera House, in 1960, he climbed the scaffolding and sang Ol' Man River to the construction workers as they ate lunch.

Sydney Opera House was added to UNESCO'ss world heritage list in 2007.

There are more than 1 million roof tiles covering approximately 1.62 hectares sitting over the structure, they were made in Sweden. Seven A380s could sit wing-to-wing on the site, The opera house was opened by Queen Elizabeth ll on 20th October 1973.

Arnold Schwarzenegger (Actor and former Governor of California) won his final Mr Olympia body building title in 1980 in the concert hall.

Sydney Opera House is cooled using sea water taken directly from the harbour, the system circulates cold water from the harbour through 35 kilometers of pipes to power both heating and air conditioning in the building, this helps when the Sydney Opera House Orchestra is on stage in the concert hall the temperature must be 22.5 degrees to ensure the instruments stay in tune.

12/02/2020

Did you know?? The statue of Liberty was not built in a America, it arrived at Bedloe's Island 19th June 1885 as a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States. The Staue is 151ft high and has come to symbolise freedom and democracy nationwide.
In order to transport the statue to America it was disassembled into 350 pieces and packed into 214 crates. Four months later, it was reassembled on Bedloe island (renamed Liberty Island in 1956) on its pedestal, words by poet Emma Lazarus reflect hope for freedom and opportunity shared by millions who see miss Liberty after a long sea journey.
" Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me"

The star shaped Fort Wood, which now serves as a part of the statues pedestal, was home to military families from 1818 until the mid 1930's.

Tourists were able to climb up to the precarious perch until 1916, when those privileges were revoked in response to Black Tom incident.

The seven spikes radiating from the Statue of Liberty's crown aren't actually part of the crown. They're meant to be a halo, also known as an aureole, with the spikes representing the world's seven seas and continents. The statue was meant to have a sister statue and a lighthouse in Egypt. Sculpture Frèdèric Bartholdi offered to make Egypt and large piece for the entrance to the Suez Canal called the "Egypt carrying Light to Asia," which would have featured a veiled Egyptian peasant woman holding a lantern however this was declined due to the cost.
When Miss Liberty first arrived from France, she was the colour of a shiny new penny. It took roughly 20 years for Liberty to patina to the greenish-blue hue she is today.
It was discovered in 1876 that Miss Liberty was based in sculpture Frèdèrics mother Charlotte.
Frèdèric Bartholdi name for his gift was "Liberty Enlightening the World." However Miss Liberty has been known by several nick names.

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06/02/2020

Did you know?? The Leaning Tower of Pisa's construction began in August 1173, it was interrupted several times by wars, debt and while engineers worked on various solutions to correct the lean. We now know that without these interruptions that allowed the soil to compress under the tower, it would have certainly toppled over.
The tower was finally finished in 1399, the original height for the tower was 60m however the actual height is 56.67m on the higher side and 55.86m on the lowest.
The tower has 251 steps and weighs 14,500 tonnes.
The real identity of the Tower of Pisa's architects is a mystery. The most accredited architects of this first phase of work are Bonanno Pisano and Gherardo din Gherardo, the second phase of construction started in 1275, and the work is attributed to Giovanni Pisano, Giovanni di Simone. Tommaso Pisano was the architect who finished the work.
The leaning of the Tower of Pisa leans thanks to the soft ground, it had begun to lean by the time its builders got to the third story in 1178. Shifting had destabilized the tower's foundations. Over the next 800 years, it became clear the 55 metre tower wasn't just leaning was actually falling at a rate of one or two millimetres per year. Today the Leabing Tower of Pisa is more than 5 metres off perpendicular.
Its architect and engineer tried to correct this by making the remaining stories shorter on the uphill side-but to no avail. It kept leaning more and more.
The lean was first noticed when three of the tower's eight stories had been built, resulted from the foundation stones laid on soft ground consisting of clay, fine sand and shells. The next stories were built slightly taller on the short side of the tower in an attempt to compensate for the lean. However, the weight of the extra floors caused the edifice to sink further and lean more.
Pisa got its name in 600BC from a Greek word meaning "marshy land" ...... Due to this others such as the bell tower at the church of St.Michele dei Scalzi and the bell tower at the church of St.Nicola, the cathedral and the baptistery are also sinking.

30/01/2020

Did you know??

Big Ben is one of the most famous landmarks in world, it is the clock tower. The name big ben is often used to describe the clock tower that is part of the palace of Westminster. Officially "Big Ben" does not refer to the clock tower but instead to the huge thirteen ton Great Bell located at the top of the 320 foot-high tower.

Big Ben construction started 28th September 1843

The clock tower is now called The Elizabeth Tower. It was called St. Stephen's tower by Victorian journalists. They referred to anything to do with the House of Commons as news from 'St. Stephen's, as originally MP's used to sit in St. Stephen's Hall.

Big Ben is situated on the banks of the River Thames on the north side of the houses of parliament in Westminster, London.

The Big Ben bell has the following measurements: 9'-0" diameter, 7'-6" high, and weighs 13 tons 10 cwts 3 qtrs 15lbs (13,760 Kg).

Big Ben chimes every 15 minutes and the sound can be heard for a radius of up to 5 miles.

Big Ben is the world's largest four-faced chiming clock , the clock became operational on 7th September 1859. The four faces of the clock are 55 meters above ground. The clock faces are 23 feet (7m) in diameter. The hour hand is 9ft (2.7m) long, and the minute hand is 14ft (4.3m) long. The pendulum is 3.9m long, weighs 300Kg and beats once every two seconds.

At the base of each clock face is a Latin inscription, in guilt letters. It reads-
"Domine salvam fac Reginam nostrum Victoriam Primam"

"O Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the first".

The clock Tower is the focus of New Year celebrations in the United Kingdom, with radio and tv stations tuning to its chimes to welcome the start of the the year.

On Remembrance Day, the chimes of Big Ben are broadcast to mark the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

A light in the clock tower tells whens the House of Commons is in session.

24/01/2020

Did you know ?......... There is enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to build a two lane highway from San Francisco to New York. It was poured in sections and 582 miles of pipes were used to cool it. Otherwise it would have taken 125 years to cool.

The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado river, on the border between the U.S states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The official number of "industrial fatalities" involved in building the Hoover Dam is 96. These were men who died at the dam site from such causes as drowning, blasting, falling rocks, slides, falls from the canyon walls, being struck by heavy equipment and truck accidents....

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23/01/2020

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17/01/2020

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16/01/2020

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15/01/2020

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10/01/2020

"Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" This photo is one if the most talked about construction iron works of all time, taken In 1932. However there has been much controversy over the photo from the photographer's identity, as to whether the photo was staged and purely for publicity.....

What do you think and would you have lunch Atop a Skyscraper?? #1932

08/01/2020

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