Taking just seven years to build after a few false starts it began functioning in 1994, having met in the middle in 1990.  Both the British and French worked on the project until its completion, meeting half way, making a tunnel which is 31 miles long and 23 miles of that is under the ocean, with 8.2 million passengers riding it in 1995.  In 2005 it was down from that number to 7.45; however it is expected to more than double this year with new rail connections having been added.  Proposed plans for a second tunnel have been made, however no date for construction is planned and the economics have only been touched on.

It stood at the world’s tallest building from its final completion in 1931 until the finishing of the World Trade Center’s North Tower in 1972, and is now the tallest building in New York since the obliteration of the World Trade Center.  Construction took from January of 1930 until May of 1931, being one of the fastest constructions for a building of its gigantic size.  The building has survived a direct head on collision with a B-25 bomber in the 1940s.  Since the collapse of the World Trade Center the Empire State Building has come back into the main service center for commercial broadcast stations for radio and television, and it has been broadcasting signals since 1931.

Occasionally the building poses several hazards, such as falling ice, possibility of fire (which has been mitigated by vast updates and is very unlikely) along with the staggering height.  Recently it has been outfitted with a LED display that runs along up the entire tower, and fully lighting it costs a thousand Canadian dollars a month.  Currently they are more energy efficient than the old system using regular light bulbs, which were inefficient and had to be replaced often.  The tower also broadcasts several television stations and radio stations, with 8 TV and 20

Something new at the time was the usage of a safety net during construction, which saved 19 of the 30 men who fell, and would have saved the others had there not been a failure in the net itself.   The record for being the longest suspension bridge was broken thirty years after construction in the 60’s by a bridge in New York.  Today it has 100,000 cars on it traveling in either direction at once on average and serves as a major artery through the area, greatly decreasing travel times that would have otherwise occurred by driving around or using a ferry to cross the channel.

This year expansion is planned to raise the capacity to 14,000 MW to provide more cheap electricity to the respective countries and will feature the ability to run eighteen 700MW Generators at any given time.  It saves the country of Brazil from using petroleum for power generation, which would be nearly 500,000 barrels of petrol each day, thus being more environmentally friendly and cost effective, and so far the dam has produced a total of 1.4 million gigawatt hours since its completion.

The result currently is that over ten thousand miles of dikes have been built, with one and a half thousand miles in primary dikes and eight and a quarter thousand in secondary dikes. Because of the current global issues in regards to Global Warming and the overall rise of sea levels the dikes locks and dams are planned to be upgraded in the near future with taller and wider structures to prevent the flooding of the Netherlands.  These plans call for construction to continue until 2015, however more are likely to follow in other areas extending that time line indefinitely with the constant steady rise of the seas.

However the United States of America stepped in under President Theodore Roosevelt and in 1904 and took over construction, completing it just a decade later with only 200 American deaths. Through a series of locks the water level is either lowered or raised for the ships as they pass through, thereby equalizing the water levels along the way since they are never the same in both oceans.  Because the original capacity was 80 million tons a year and it currently serves 278 million tons per year, along with growing ship sizes, plans are being made to upgrade the canal in the future so that shipping can continue.

The island has over ten thousand temples and is also home to many massive rice terraces, along with having more artists and craftsmen per capita than many other places on earth.  In addition to having ten thousand plus temples the island also boasts many statues that are numerous along with other works of art created by more modern artists in a variety of styles, and the island itself is surrounded by coral reefs.    There are two kinds of beaches on the island, white sand beaches and black sand beaches created by volcanic rock sand, with more being developed to improve tourist interaction and bring more in.

When the Japanese invaded China during the Second World War the Forbidden City was threatened, and all of the exhibits and artifacts were moved in a daring action to prevent the obliteration of them – and they were often just hours ahead of bombings during the movement of the lots. During Communist Rule various proposals involved obliterating the Forbidden City, Razing it to make way for public parks, transportation infrastructure, or even auditoriums.  Luckily it survived the early Communist rule with some damage, including some artifacts being destroyed until Premier Zhou Enlai sent the army to protect the site, and seal it until 1971 when the threats passed.

If this continues there will be nothing left to declare as culturally significant.  The ruins cover more than sixteen square miles of the city, and were built between the 1000’s and 1200s with the first dating as far back as the 800’s.  There are many domed temples and most of the construction focuses around the relic shaped dome, tomb shaped dome, stupa and many northern, southern, and central Indian models of architecture.  The largest threat to these temples is the government and are people who live in this country.