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Lake Placid Tower, the Glossary

The Lake Placid Tower in Lake Placid, Florida, formerly named Placid Tower, Tower of Peace or Happiness Tower, is a closed observation tower tall according to early sources (before 1982) or tall according to late sources (after 1986).^[1]

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A. Wynn Howell

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Antenna (radio)

In radio engineering, an antenna (American English) or aerial (British English) is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver.

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Bok Tower Gardens

Bok Tower Gardens is a contemplative garden and bird sanctuary located atop Iron Mountain, north of Lake Wales, Florida, United States, created by Edward Bok in the 1920s. Lake Placid Tower and Bok Tower Gardens are towers in Florida.

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Cell site

A cell site, cell phone tower, cell base tower, or cellular base station is a cellular-enabled mobile device site where antennas and electronic communications equipment are placed (typically on a radio mast, tower, or other raised structure) to create a cell, or adjacent cells, in a cellular network.

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Clermont, Florida

Clermont is a city in Lake County in central Florida, United States, about west of Orlando and southeast of Leesburg.

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Concrete block

A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various other terms, is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction.

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Cyan

Cyan is the color between blue and green on the visible spectrum of light.

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FamilySearch

FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation which regulates civil aviation in the United States and surrounding international waters.

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Florida Citrus Tower

The Florida Citrus Tower is a structure in Clermont, Florida. Lake Placid Tower and Florida Citrus Tower are Observation towers in the United States and towers in Florida.

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Grout

Grout is a dense fluid that hardens used to fill gaps or as reinforcement in existing structures.

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Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law.

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Lake Placid, Florida

Lake Placid is a town in Highlands County, Florida, United States.

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Lake Wales, Florida

Lake Wales is a city in Polk County, Florida.

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Lakeland, Florida

Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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North American Vertical Datum of 1988

The North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) is the vertical datum for orthometric heights established for vertical control surveying in the United States of America based upon the General Adjustment of the North American Datum of 1988.

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Ocala, Florida

Ocala is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Florida, United States.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States.

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Payphone

A payphone (alternative spelling: pay phone or pay telephone or public phone) is typically a coin-operated public telephone, often located in a telephone booth or in high-traffic public areas.

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Petting zoo

A petting zoo (also called a children's zoo, children's farm, or petting farm) features a combination of domesticated animals and some wild species that are docile enough to touch and feed.

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Rebar

Rebar (short for reinforcing bar), known when massed as reinforcing steel or steel reinforcement, is a steel bar used as a tension device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and aid the concrete under tension.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Sebring, Florida

Sebring is a city in south-central Florida, United States, nicknamed "The City on the Circle", in reference to Circle Drive, the center of the Sebring Downtown Historic District.

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Stucco

Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.

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Tracery

Tracery is an architectural device by which windows (or screens, panels, and vaults) are divided into sections of various proportions by stone bars or ribs of moulding.

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U.S. Route 27 in Florida

U.S. Highway 27 (US 27) in Florida is a north–south United States Numbered Highway.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Placid_Tower

Also known as Placid Tower.