Blue Tongue Lizard Blue-tongue Skink. Blue tongue lizards come in a variety of sizes and colours but they all have distinctive blue tongues. Their blue tongue is a defensive mechanism. When the lizard is threatened it sticks out its large blue tongue and hisses loudly to scare off predators.
A skyscraper ad is a tall and narrow banner advertisement usually placed to the right of content on a Web page. Standard dimensions for a skyscraper ad are 160 X 600 pixels. Like another popular type of Internet ad, the leaderboard, the skyscraper offers an advertiser a large space for a message.
A race for the tallest building. For Walter P. Chrysler, from the car manufacturer, building the tallest building in the world was a status symbol. The Chrysler Building was in a race with the Bank of Manhattan (now 40 Wall Street) for obtaining the title of tallest building in the world. It looked like the Bank of Manhattan would win the race, with an expected height of 282 meters (927ft) to around 230 meters for the Chrysler Building.