For the last half century, a twenty-meter high statue called Kartlis Deda, or Mother of Georgia, has stood on a mountain-top overlooking the capital Tbilisi.
The workers, some wearing only plastic sandals, deftly make their way along narrow, five-meter high concrete platforms that divide the slipways and cranes that keep the vessels steady while they're being built.
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"If an ant heap is a meter high over ground, which is to say, about 3 feet, it's probably digging up material from three to four meters below, so you can collect samples from those ant heaps, " said Mr. Petzer, who says that is a constant ratio.
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Behind the wheel of the Mini Countryman is Guerlain Chicherit, famed world champion of the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, who managed to launch a modified version of the vehicle off an 8-meter high ramp, do a full 360 degree back-flip, and land it back on all four tires.
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Behind the wheel of the Mini Countryman is Guerlain Chicherit, famed world champion of the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, who managed to launch the the modified version of the vehicle off an 8-meter high ramp, do a full 360 degree back-flip, and land it back on all four tires.
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Those who fear that the city's historical buildings are in danger of being literally overshadowed by modern monoliths might take comfort in the global economic crisis, which has caused some of Moscow's most ambitious new developments, including Norman Foster's 600 meter-high Russia Tower and 450 meter Crystal Island building, to be put on hold.
At the other end are 4-meter-high monsters that reflect their origins in the Brazilian jungle.
This 73-meter-high sandstone tower was built as a symbol of victory in the 13th century.
On its head sits a three-meter-high crown, for a total height of 36 meters.
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We were used to surfing only 3- or 4 meter-high waves, but those were at least three times higher.
Ride a glass elevator to the 160-meter-high observation deck for an incredible view of the city and its surroundings.
He hadn't intended to make wine in Rutherford until the local planning commission forbade his having a 5-meter-high gate on his property.
As self-avowed "excitement eaters, " the couple would liven up the evenings at the hotel by diving off 11-meter-high rocks into the pitch-dark sea.
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The storm caused two-meter-high (six-and-a-half-feet) drifts and was blamed for derailing a bullet train in Akita prefecture, south of Hokkaido, on Saturday afternoon.
Each day he clamped a Lange V9 ski boot onto the metal stem of a 2.5-meter-high Instron compression machine and flipped the power switch.
The Angel Falls cascade down a 2560 meter-high table mountain.
Another monumental work, and among my favorites, is Swiss artist Alex Hanimann's "Vanessa" (2012), a 5-meter-high chrome statue of a tomboyish teenage girl that gleams in the sun and reflects the surrounding buildings.
With more than a hundred accredited diplomats, Iran's embassy in Managua - a massive compound surrounded by four-meter-high concrete walls lined with razor wire - is one of the largest diplomatic compounds in the world.
The robbers apparently knew that one segment of the airport's perimeter, protected by two layers of three-meter-high fencing and concrete blocks, could be crossed more easily due to construction, said a person familiar with the events.
Stand in the center of the rotunda and gaze up to the heavens through the eight-meter-high oculus at the center of the five-ton concrete dome --a stunning feat of ancient engineering, still intact after two thousand years.
That would seem to make it clearly taller than the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, which is about 30 meters tall, excluding its large base, and the 34.2-meter-high Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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One quarter of the Hotel des Bergues' rooms are suites, with spacious sitting rooms and windows that look out onto Lake Geneva and the landmark Jet D'Eau, a 140-meter-high geyser of water that is reputed to be Europe's tallest fountain.
Most of the turkey bones were found at the Maya culture's Jaguar Paw Temple, a 30-foot (9-meter)-high platform "topped by triadic architecture and decorated with sculptured stucco masks, " the researchers write.
The Otsuka is the only place in the world to see all six panels of El Greco's 12-meter- tall "High Altar" together.
Britain's Olympic selectors are expected to delay the announcement of their 100 meter lineup until after the High Court ruling.
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This is not a year to hunker down in money market funds or to seek safety in government bonds (which in fact rate high on the risk meter).
Like cities around the U.S., Santa Clara's electric meters are being systematically replaced, house by house, with high tech ones, eliminating the need for meter readers to manually check each one every month but raising concerns about health effects, privacy and cost.
Perhaps you could put on demonstrations for the local high-school physics club, using the g-meter built into the car's instrument cluster to show exactly what more than 1 g of lateral acceleration feels like.
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