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World's tallest free-standing statue? The 1,815-foot-high CN Tower appears to dwindle in the back-ground, viewed from this angle behind teh gigantic s(...)
World's tallest free-standing statue? The 1,815-foot-high CN Tower appears to dwindle in the back-ground, viewed from this angle behind teh gigantic s(...)

World's tallest free-standing statue? The 1,815-foot-high CN Tower appears to dwindle in the back-ground, viewed from this angle behind teh gigantic s(...)

Date9/22/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: World's tallest free-standing statue? The 1,815-foot-high CN Tower appears to dwindle in the back-ground, viewed from this angle behind teh gigantic sculpture, Universal Man, set at its base. The bronze figure by Canadian artist Gerald Gladstone is 21 feet high and weighs 5 1/2 tons. Gladstone was commissioned to do it in 1972 and it was unveiled in July.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0109875F
Toothpick tower, With what may be the world's tallest free-standing collection of toothpicks Andre Bellair has assembled a 14-foot model of the CN Tow(...)
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Fire on the CN Tower. Fire broke out at CN Tower about 2 p.m. today, above observation level, about 1,500 ft. up the 1,815-ft. tower. Thick smoke pour(...)
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Chicago Beaches are in the shadow of some of the world's tallest buildings and with easy walking distance of major hotels. The John Hancock Centre, above is the world's fifth talles. Tenants occupying upper floor suites sometimes wake to sunshine and find clouds down below.
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These three pilots are the men who fly Olga, the giant sikorsky S-64E helicopter being used to erect the 335-foot antenna on top of Toronto's CN Tower(...)
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