La Città Dolente
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Venus of Willendorf
The Venus of Willendorf , now known in academia as the Woman of Willendorf , is an 11 cm (4.3 in) high statuette of a female figure estimated to have been made between 24,000 and 22,000 BCE .
Wardenclyffe Tower
Coordinates : Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917) also known as the Tesla Tower , was an early wireless transmission tower designed by Nikola Tesla and intended for commercial trans-Atlantic wireless telephony , broadcasting, and proof-of-concept demonstrations of wireless power transmission . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was never fully operational, [ 4 ] and the tower was demolished in 1917. The tower was named after James S.