West Pearl Tower (Chinese: 四川广播电视塔) is a tower built of reinforced concrete located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. At 339 m (1,112.2 ft) high, the West Pearl Tower is the fourth tallest tower in China. West Pearl Tower started construction in 1992, but constructions was halted later in the year due to budgeting problems. Constructions restarted in 1998 and it was completed in 2004. It was mainly built to help TV Networks across Chengdu, but since then it has expanded to become a revolving restaurant with a 360 degree view of the city and as a recreational/commercial mall for Chengdu.
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“Wild Bill was indulging in his favorite pastime of a friendly game of cards in the old No. 10 saloon. For the second time in his career, he was sitting with his back to an open door. Jack McCall walked in, shot him through the back of the head, and rushed from the place, only to be captured shortly afterward. Wild Bill’s dead hand held aces and eights, and from that time on this has been known in the West as “the dead man’s hand.””
—State of South Dakota, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine,
For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine,
For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve,
For the next matrons or drudges they serve,
For the next doth crave a staff for a stay,
For the next a bier to fetch them away.”
—Thomas Tusser (c. 1520–1580)
“Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)