How do you unite a modern metropolis? With 500 people and a song called Ah Poor BirdThe human urge to build cities with tall buildings is an ancient one. In the Book of Genesis, the generations who came after the flood were one tribe with one language. They built a great city, Babel, with a tower that reached into the heavens. God felt they were getting above themselves, so he destroyed the tower and confused their l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01PM on March 4, 2012