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OFF-Topic / Misc. Discuss Dark side of the tower in the Current forums; Greetings ladies and gentlemen. I heard that on the news last week and I thought it could interrest someone. The ...

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    Dark side of the tower

    Greetings ladies and gentlemen.



    I heard that on the news last week and I thought it could interrest someone.

    The National Cathedral in Washington has a Darth Vader statue engraved in one of its towers.

    Here is a link to an article I found on Google.
    http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/003050.php

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    That's pretty cool, if true..

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    It is indeed true.
    As Washington National Cathedral approached completion, the west towers rose towards the sky, striking toward heaven. During the building a startling idea was hatched: hold a competition for children to design decorative sculpture for the Cathedral.


    Word of the competition was spread nationwide through National Geographic World Magazine. The third-place winner was Christopher Rader, with his drawing of that fearful villain, Darth Vader. The fierce head was sculpted by Jay Hall Carpenter, carved by Patrick J. Plunkett and placed high upon the northwest tower of the Cathedral.
    http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/discover/darth.shtml


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    For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo Da Vinci

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