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Building to the skies, but at what cost?

Britam Tower in Upper Hill.

In ancient Babylon lived a man called Nimrod. He was the founder and king of the first empire in the world.

According to historians, Nimrod was an aggressive man who devised a clever method to detach people from overreliance on a single deity and unite the fragments of a scattered populace.

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