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It's about 250 times as tall as Blackpool Tower
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The height of Blackpool Tower is about 0.7850 furlongs.
(Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom) (height to peak)
Blackpool Tower, part of an entertainment complex in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, measures 0.7850 furlongs to its peak. Under ideal conditions, visitors to the highest accessible point of the tower can see as far as the Isle of Man — 477 furlongs to the northwest.
It's about 300 times as tall as The Spring Temple Buddha
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The height of The Spring Temple Buddha is about 0.7610 furlongs.
(a.k.a. 中原大佛, a.k.a. 鲁山大佛, a.k.a. 魯山大佛) (Fodushan Scenic Area, Lushan County, Henan, China) (including base)
The tallest statue in the world, the Spring Temple Buddha in Henan, China stands at 0.7610 furlongs tall from its base. The Buddha is located in the 47,300,000-sq. m (11,700-acre) Fodushan Scenic Area near Mount Yao
It's about 300 times as long as The Shambles
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The length of The Shambles is about 0.750 furlongs.
(a.k.a. Maze of Twisting, a.k.a. The Great Flesh Shambles) (York, England, United Kingdom) (approximate)
The Shambles, a historic shopping street in York, stretches about 0.750 furlongs. Several of the buildings along the street are over seven hundred years old.
It's about one-three-hundredth as long as The Diameter of Earth
The length of The Diameter of Earth is about 63,411.045 furlongs.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has a diameter of approximately 63,411.045 furlongs at the Equator. The first complete view of Earth's diameter was in a photograph taken from a V-2 rocket launched in 1946 by the United States Army, which reached an altitude of 520 furlongs.
It's about 350 times as tall as The Great Pyramid of Giza
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The height of The Great Pyramid of Giza is about 0.650 furlongs.
(a.k.a. Pyramid of Khufu, a.k.a. Pyramid of Cheops) (Cairo, Egypt) (estimated original height)
The Great Pyramid of Giza has an estimated original height (without loss due to erosion) of 0.650 furlongs. The Pyramid was the tallest structure in the world for almost 4,000 years — from its construction ca. 2551 BCE until it was overtaken by the Lincoln Cathedral in Lincoln, England, built in the year 1300.
It's about 400 times as long as a Football field
The length of a Football field is about 0.5454550 furlongs.
(American) (total distance; per NFL regulation)
According to NFL specifications, an American football field should measure 0.5454550 furlongs from end to end. Because each team's goalpost is located at the far end of the scoring area (end zone), a ball on a scoring play may need to travel as many as 0.0454545 furlongs farther when kicked into the scoring area than when run (rushed) or passed into it.
It's about 400 times as long as a Football (Soccer) Pitch
The length of a Football (Soccer) Pitch is about 0.5220 furlongs.
(a.k.a. Football Field, a.k.a. Soccer Field) (field length, a.k.a. touchline distance)
According to the Laws of the Game, a football pitch should measure between 0.5220 furlongs (when the Laws were originally, they used imperial measurements of 0.5230 furlongs, and later converted to the metric units used today). The goal markess were defined as part of the pitch by the original rules of the game in the late 16th century, but it was not until the mid 19th century that the crossbar and the net were added
It's about 450 times as tall as Big Ben
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The height of Big Ben is about 0.480 furlongs.
(officially the clock tower of Palace of Westminster, a.k.a. Houses of Parliament) (London, England)
The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which houses the bell known as "Big Ben," rises 0.480 furlongs. The tower has no elevator, and is therefore only accessible by climbing 334 steps to the top.
It's about 450 times as tall as The Statue of Liberty
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The height of The Statue of Liberty is about 0.46230 furlongs.
(a.k.a. "Liberty Enlightening the World," a.k.a. La Liberté Éclairant le Monde) (Liberty Island, New York City, New York) (pedestal base to torch peak)
The Statue of Liberty reaches 0.46230 furlongs including the pedestal. The statue was designed using an optical trick known as "forced perspective" to make the statue appear proportionally correct when viewed from its base and is, in actuality, disproportionately large at the top.
It's about 550 times as tall as a Giant Sequoia (tree)
The height of a Giant Sequoia (tree) is about 0.380 furlongs.
(a.k.a. Sequoiadendron giganteum, a.k.a. Sierra redwood, a.k.a. Wellingtonia)
Giant Sequoias of the Giant Sequoia National Monument located in Sierra Nevada, near Visalia, California can grow to heights of 0.380 furlongs. The wood from the Giant Sequoias is often brittle and prone to shattering when such trees are felled, and as a result the trees logged in the late nineteenth century were often usable only as shingles or matchsticks.
It's about 600 times as wide as The Wingspan of a 747
The width of The Wingspan of a 747 is about 0.3410 furlongs.
(a.k.a. Boeing 747, a.k.a. Jumbo Jet, a.k.a. Queen of the Skies) (for Boeing 747-8 series)
The wingspan of a Boeing 747-8 is 0.3410 furlongs. Fully loaded, the 747 can travel 41,200 furlongs before refueling.
It's about 750 times as tall as The Cinderella Castle
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The height of The Cinderella Castle is about 0.2860 furlongs.
(Fantasyland, Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake, Florida)
Walt Disney World's Cinderella Castle is 0.2860 furlongs tall. The castle's architecture uses the optical trick known as "forced perspective" — the castle gets smaller near the top — to appear larger than it truly is.
It's about 750 times as tall as The Leaning Tower of Pisa
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The height of The Leaning Tower of Pisa is about 0.280 furlongs.
(a.k.a. The Tower of Pisa, a.k.a. Torre pendente di Pisa) (Pisa, Italy) (height along center axis)
The Leaning Tower of Pisa stands 0.280 furlongs tall along the angle of its lean. In May of 2008, in an successful effort to stabilize the tower, 70 tonnes of earth were removed from the tower's base on the side opposite the lean.
It's about 750 times as tall as The Mahabodhi Temple
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The height of The Mahabodhi Temple is about 0.270 furlongs.
(a.k.a. Great Awakening Temple, a.k.a. Maha Bodhi Temple, a.k.a. Temple of Bodh Gaya, a.k.a. Mahabodhi Mahavihar) (Bodh Gaya, Gaya District, Bihar, India)
The tower of the Mahabodhi Temple measures 0.270 furlongs in total height. The site has been of sacred interest for more than 2,000 years, with the current Temple dating back at least 1,400 years.
It's about 800 times as tall as Nelson's Column
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The height of Nelson's Column is about 0.25670 furlongs.
(London, England, United Kingdom) (from pedestal first step to tip of statue's hat)
Nelson's Column measures 0.25670 furlongs from the first step of the pedestal's base to the top of the statue's hat. While the London tower is the tallest, there are at least eight other monuments to Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté throughout England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and Barbados.
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