On its head sits a three-meter-high crown, for a total height of 36 meters.

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When the new Freedom Tower is complete in lower Manhattan, it will be one of the top five tallest buildings in the world with a total peak height of 1, 776 feet.

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As Caritas noted this week, even in 2008, when Mediterranean crossings were at their height, entries by sea into Italy anyway made up only a fifth of the estimated total.

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The flights are expensive (at the height of its Apollo-era pomp, NASA was sucking in around 4.4% of total government spending) and dangerous, and the benefits are hard to measure.

ECONOMIST: The space shuttle

At its height the timber-framed block of flats on Gershwin Road, Basingstoke, was "in danger of total collapse", a fire service spokesman said.

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