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Many companies offer to 'hide' cellphone towers in, or as, trees, church towers, flag poles, water tanks and other features. [14] There are many providers that offer these services as part of the normal tower installation and maintenance service. These are generally called "stealth towers" or "stealth installations", or simply concealed cell sites.
A flagpole, flagmast, flagstaff, or staff is a pole designed to support a flag. If it is taller than can be easily reached to raise the flag, a cord is used, looping around a pulley at the top of the pole with the ends tied at the bottom. The flag is fixed to one lower end of the cord, and is then raised by pulling on the other end.
Telescopic cylinders are also referred to as telescoping cylinders and multi-stage telescopic cylinders. An application for telescopic cylinders commonly seen is that of the dump body on a dump truck used in a construction site. In order to empty the load of gravel completely, the dump body must be raised to an angle of about 60 degrees.
The Independence Flagpole was the location where the Philippine flag was hoisted on July 4, 1946, when full independence was achieved from the United States. The flagpole was designed to be at 45.72 m (150.0 ft) high but was damaged by Typhoon Angela (Rosing) in 1995 reducing the flagpole's height to just 32 m (105 ft).
Cairo Flagpole: New Administrative Capital, Cairo Egypt: 201.952 m (662.57 ft) [1] 26 December 2021 Free–standing 2 National Flag Square Flagpole 2 (2024-now) Neftchiler Avenue, Bayil, Baku Azerbaijan: 191 m (626.64 ft) [2] 2 August 2024
Pole sitting is predated by the ancient ascetic discipline of stylitism, or column-sitting. St. Simeon Stylites the Elder (c. 388 –459) of Antioch (now Turkey) was a column-sitter who sat on a small platform on a column for 36 years. [1] 14-year-old William Ruppert breaking the pole sitting record of 23 days, in 1929