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architecture's middle finger to gravity, dressed up as devotion.
height recordLincoln Cathedral's spire beat the Great Pyramid in 1311
lightning magnetchurch spires drew strikes before rods were invented
word rootcomes from Old English for stalk or blade of grass
hidden engineeringmany are timber skeletons sheathed in thin stone
fragile giantsLincoln's record-holder collapsed in a 1548 storm