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EMPIRE STATE BUILDING (2)
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING (2)
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a
skyscraper
completed
in 1931 in
New York City
. For many years it was the tallest building in the
world
,
standing
at 1,250 feet high and
having
102 stories. It acquires its name from the
nickname
for
New York
State
, "the
Empire
State
."
—
3rd South African
unpublished Appr GLS (19.3.92)