The Crazy SCANDAL Behind Building the Washington Monument - #50
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The Washington Monument
The Washington Monument is huge and because it's not surrounded by anything bit like the Eiffel Tower there's just the more I think they call it just around it. They use this kind of clever system of pulleys and cranes to create two layers of walls using marble ships down from a quarry near Baltimore. The story of building this you know there's not we haven't got the equipment or the plant we had today they were building this way back in the the 1850s.
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