Fleeting Images Lightning strikes the Eiffel Tower in 2010 (Photo: Carter's News), available at http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ZSu7kFtt_ESLwfAKBGm1qw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00NDU7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/208/2011/09/01/001CATERS-EIFFEL-TOWER-LIGHTNING-01_211914.jpg. Coincidentally, the next year, a photographer captured lightning striking Prague's copy of the Eiffel Tower on Petřín (see below). ![]() On 20 May 2011, lightning struck the Petr(ín Tower in Prague. The photographer, Magdaléna Straková, has posted a few other photographs of lightning that evening at http://www.photomls.cz/2011/05/blesk-uderil-do-petrinske-rozhledny-lightning-strikes-petrin-tower/. One is more spectacular than the other. The Czech Press Agency (C(TK) as well as several foreign news outlets have reprinted this stunning photograph.
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