Dear Nat, You will be pleased to know that the Freedom Tower is mostly referred to in the Australian press as a 541 metre (or sometimes as 540 metre) tower. Only occasionally, say once in 10 mentions, is the figure 1776 mentioned at all.
Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia Pat Naughtin is the editor of the free online newsletter, 'Metrication matters'. You can subscribe by sending an email containing the words subscribe Metrication matters to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- on 2004-01-02 03.52, Nat Hager III at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, at least there's some reference to the true building height... > > Nat > > Though the Freedom Tower, the first and tallest of the planned trade > center skyscrapers, is routinely described as a 1,776-foot design, it > will be, in the eyes of most of the world, a 541-meter building. That > suggests a reference not to the year of American independence but to the > year that Totila became king and the emperor Justinian extinguished the > Roman consulship. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/01/nyregion/01BLOC.html?hp >
