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dr.bob	163283.  Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:55 am That picture looks familiar post 149716 *cough*
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dr.bob	164342.  Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:34 am Errr, come again?
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dr.bob	164691.  Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:46 am Ah, of course. If the comma had been there, I'd've got it instantly :)
Molly Cule	167785.  Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:59 am The BBC Broadcasting House in London has a mini Eiffel Tower on the roof. s - i saw it on monday
Gray	167858.  Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:07 am
MatC	173236.  Thu May 10, 2007 4:43 am eggshaped wrote: Guy de Maupassant liked to eat lunch in the tower's restaurant because he hated the building so much it was the only place he could not see it. Or ... he could have just sat with his back to it. Bloody drama queen. Mind you, it is said that Verlaine made detours around Paris to avoid seeing the Tower.
MatC	173238.  Thu May 10, 2007 4:46 am One of the designs for the great Tower, in the competition eventually one by Gustave Eiffel, was for a giant watering can which would have “sprinkled Paris with water on very hot days.” I’d have voted for that, personally. Much better than what Maupassant called “a disgraceful skeleton.” S: ‘Murder on the Eiffel Tower’ by Claude Izner (Gallic Books, 2007).
Flash	173287.  Thu May 10, 2007 7:41 am Maybe there's an E for Eyesores topic here? With a possible Elephant in the Room discursion re White Elephants.
eggshaped	179231.  Thu May 31, 2007 1:42 am Question: Who designed the Statue of Liberty? Forfeit: Gustav Eiffel Answer: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi Eiffel merely engineered the internal structure of the monument, it was Bartholdi who designed and sculpted the statue. He was supposed to have based the face of the Statue on his mother and the body on his mistress - ugh.
eggshaped	179234.  Thu May 31, 2007 2:15 am For a year, beginning in 1884, the Statue of Liberty sat in a courtyard belonging to Bartholdi. He'd finished building it, but the pedestal wasn't ready in the US - $100,000 was needed to complete it. La Monde began a campaign to raise the money which began to pour in. Laxative makers Castoria offered to give $25,000 provided the name of their laxative would be displayed at the top of the statue for a year - the offer was politely declined.
dr.bob	185602.  Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:45 am We've done the fact about the tower weighing less than the air contained in a cylinder around it, but according to the chief engineer of the tower, interviewed on BBC2's "Paris" last night, if you melted the entire thing down to a cuboid contained within its footprint, it would be only 6cm high.
Jenny	185865.  Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:27 pm I hope somebody's keeping a note of all this for the F series - surely there must be some other good stuff around France.

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