It has lots of islands, one of which has its own loch - so it has a loch within a loch ?
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Near enough.
The largest island in the loch, Eileen Sùbhainn, contains a loch that itself contains an island - so it's a loch with an island with a loch with an island - the only instance of that in Great Britain.
Over to you.
Cheers BB. The World record is 5.42, the second best is 5.19 and the most famous is 3.97. What is it and what holds the record ?
yorkshirehornet
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No sorry Yorkie. If you can work out the measurement used you're nearly there.The most famous one at 3.97 was once saved from an artillery strike by a certain sergeant Leon Weckstein. The 3.97 was once 5.5. Those currently ahead of this are mostly in Germany with one important Dutch competitor.
Angle of tilt. The Tower of Pisa was nearly destroyed in 1944 by the aforementioned Staff Sgt Weckstein. He had a penchant for spotting the enemy through their camouflage and thought he saw soldiers in the tower. Fortunately an aerial assault forced him to to retreat before firing on the tower. He wrote wrote a book about his exploits: 200,000 Heroes...
Nearly there Fez. The leaning tower of Pisa has an angle of tilt of 3.97 degrees, but there are others where the tilt is larger - so where is the largest ?
yorkshirehornet
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the church tower of Suurhusen???
The world`s most leaning tower
The village of Hinte is home to the church tower of Suurhusen, which is 27.37 metres high and has an overhang of 2.47 metres. That's equivalent to an angle of 5.19 degrees.
The world`s most leaning tower
The village of Hinte is home to the church tower of Suurhusen, which is 27.37 metres high and has an overhang of 2.47 metres. That's equivalent to an angle of 5.19 degrees.
yorkshirehornet
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But what about:
Most Leaning Building In The World
Abu Dhabi's new Capital Gate tower is, with its 18° slope, the world's most tilted building. It comfortably out-leans the previous Guinness world-record-holder, a medieval church tower in Suurhusen, Germany, that has a 5.19° slan
Most Leaning Building In The World
Abu Dhabi's new Capital Gate tower is, with its 18° slope, the world's most tilted building. It comfortably out-leans the previous Guinness world-record-holder, a medieval church tower in Suurhusen, Germany, that has a 5.19° slan
The one I was referring to is the most unintentionally tilted building Yorkie. The church tower in Suurhusen has recently been surpassed by new measurements of the church tower at Gau-Weinheim in Rheinhessen (also Germany) 5.42 degrees. There is another very tilted church tower at Bad Frankenhausen. These are all smallish places - the only one of these tilted churches really in the middle of a biggish town is the Oudekirk in Delft (NL) which looks really great at night. But you were close enough with Suurhusen - evidently German builders of the middle ages had a habit of doing this, either that or the substructure wasn't stable enough. Over to you.
yorkshirehornet
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Is it the possibility of a judge ruling the Whopper perhaps not being whopping?
yorkshirehornet
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You got it ...the photo does not look like the more simple product when you buy it.....apparently
Thanks, yorkie.
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