Here are the US statistics for 1902.

[James_D]

Originally posted by Novdid
Sorry james but the Eiffel tower is 325m(spire) tall, location: Paris.

What does your Norwegian butt say about that?

Gotta find a link though, I'll post back in a few moments.

http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation/structure/page/chiffres.html

Edit: Link.

Well sorry again Swede... But the tallest structure in europe is
a Norweagen structure of all things...

http://www.statoil.com/STATOILCOM/SVG00990.NSF/UNID/1F09FAC442E8E066C1256B5E00453C8C?OpenDocument

Gullfaks C: Technical data

Type of installation
Integrated production, drilling and quarters platform
Total weight 1 549 000 tonnes
Dimensions
- total height 380 m

[Dr Mordrid]

Ok younguns...try this; when Dr. Mordrid was a kid.....

1. 99% of TV's were still black & white

2. FM multiplexed stereo was just invented

3. he lived in a farmhouse, with an out-house, in Michigan

4. he went to a one-room schoolhouse with Kindergarten-6th grade in one class and he used an inkwell

5. his mother called everyone in for dinner with a real dinner-bell

6. his father drove a 1954 Hudson Hornet

7. his uncle drove a 1956 Studebaker Hawk

8. the Air Forces main-line bomber was the B-47 and the top movie was Torpedo Run

9. the top kids show was Soupy Sales

10. his family still used hand-pumped well water

Dr. Mordrid

[Novdid]

Originally posted by James_D
Well sorry again Swede... But the tallest structure in europe is
a Norweagen structure of all things...

http://www.statoil.com/STATOILCOM/SVG00990.NSF/UNID/1F09FAC442E8E066C1256B5E00453C8C?OpenDocument

Gullfaks C: Technical data

Type of installation
Integrated production, drilling and quarters platform
Total weight 1 549 000 tonnes
Dimensions
- total height 380 m

I stand corrected. But you were utterly wrong on the "on land" category.

[Wombat]

Geez, Doc. Lemme guess, the outhouse was 5 miles away, uphill, both ways, right?

[Pace]

Plus I'm sure there's a huge Dutch radio mast, which I think was (maybe still is) the tallest structure.

The CN is the tallest building, and I believe the Petronas Towers are the tallest buildings that ain't a purpose built, really tall, observation tower Previously World Trade Center towers.

P.

[Dr Mordrid]

Originally posted by Wombat
Geez, Doc. Lemme guess, the outhouse was 5 miles away, uphill, both ways, right?

No, just 100' from the house and uphill one way.....but thankfully it had a huge lilac bush right behind it

Dr. Mordrid

[GT98]

Originally posted by Pace
Plus I'm sure there's a huge Dutch radio mast, which I think was (maybe still is) the tallest structure.

The CN is the tallest building, and I believe the Petronas Towers are the tallest buildings that ain't a purpose built, really tall, observation tower Previously World Trade Center towers.

P.

What about those twin towers in Maylasia that where in the movie with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones (OMG the part with her going through the lazer secutiructy )...that I can't remember the name of LOL

[KeiFront]

Kuala Lumpur. I've seen the movie but I can't remember the name.

[thop]

heroin was invented by the german company BAYER actually as an all purpose medicine (and especially used as a cough sedative for kids! ). here is an old ad:

[Novdid]

Originally posted by GT98
What about those twin towers in Maylasia that where in the movie with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones (OMG the part with her going through the lazer secutiructy )...that I can't remember the name of LOL

Those towers are indeed the Petronas towers.

And yes, Catherine Zeta Jones's butt in that scene is a picture that will never perrish from my mind!!!

[Wombat]

heroin was invented by the german company BAYER actually as an all purpose medicine

No it wasn't. Bayer made a lot of money off of it, but it was invented by the Englishman C.R. Wright in 1874, 21 years before Dreser started messing with it.

[thop]

i stand corrected. not invented but professionally synthesized(?) and sold as an all purpose medicine. still, shocking enough.

[Joel]

Probably at that time they just didn't understand it's addictive nature and the harmful side effects of it's misuse. Of course any medicine misused can have harmful side effects.

Joel

[KvHagedorn]

Nicotine?

If heroin had had the powerful lobby then that tobacco does now, and politicians were as amoral, half the population would be shooting up.

[Dr Mordrid]

Chronology;

4,000 B.C - opiates used by Egyptians.

~300 B.C. - opiates introduced to Greece & Rome.

800 - opium first imported to China.

1680 - Thomas Syndenham introduces opium to the medical field.

1729 - smoking opium made illegal in China. Soon after importation was banned, upsetting Britain who was the major supplier.

1803 - morphine was isolated from opium by Frederick Serturner.

1832 - codeine was extracted from opium.

1839-1842 - first Opium War between China and Britain.

1853 - the hypodermic needle was invented.

1856-1860 - second Opium War between China and Britain, France, Russia & the US.

1861-1865 - opium used to treat soldiers in the US Civil War.

1874 - heroin was first produced from morphine.

1898 - Bayer introduces heroin as a substitute for morphine.

1906 - Pure Food and Drugs Act: required medicines to be labeled listing contents.

1914 - Harrison Narcotic Act: added a tax on opiate distribution.

1922 - Narcotic Import and Export Act: restricted the importation of raw opium except for medical use.

1924 - Heroin Act: made manufacture and possession of heroin illegal.

1930 - Federal Bureau of Narcotics was created.

1970 - Controlled Substances Act: divided drugs into categories, set regulations and penalties for narcotics.

Dr. Mordrid