Day 4016: Pisa and Fox Burglar.

    

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa

  

The Tower of Pisa was once feared on the brink of collapse as the lean that made it such a popular landmark threatened its very existence.

But this week, as the monument celebrated its 850th birthday, the tilting monument’s future appearances in jokey tourist photos was assured for years to come as its guardians gave it a clean bill of health.

   

Now, experts say its future is “bright,” with satellite and terrestrial surveillance currently keeping tabs on even the slightest shift in its position, making the famous bell tower one of the most monitored monuments in the world. 

   

The Tower of Pisa’s first foundation stone was laid on August 9, 1173, “thanks to the donation of 60 coins made by a widow named Berta, for the construction of the bell tower of our cathedral,” the Archbishop of Pisa Giovanni Paolo Benotto said during Wednesday’s press conference.

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Fox in Germany discovered with 100 shoes!

 

Shoes: Serena Williams has a collection, so does Drake. Imelda Marcos was legendary for owning some 3,000 pairs of them. But in Germany, there’s one passionate collector that has run afoul of neighbors and attracted public attention for amassing over a100 shoes.

 

According to the BBC and Deutsche Welle, residents in a Berlin suburb had been complaining about footwear disappearing from their yard, sometimes just one single shoe, sometimes a pair. Someone, or something, had been prowling the area and stealing them.

The culprit, it turned out, was a fox, shamelessly caught  with a pair of blue flip flops in its mouth, according to the daily Tagesspiegel. Christian Meyer, a local resident who took the damning photo, also uncovered the fox’s colourful shoe haul, which included slippers, sandals and running shoes. Meyer’s own missing shoes, however, were nowhere to be found. 

 

 

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