Ciekawostka: There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower

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Blackpool Tower is a tourist attraction in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which was opened to the public on 14 May 1894. When it opened, Blackpool Tower was the tallest man-made structure in the British Empire. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, it is 518 feet (158 metres) tall and was once the 125th-tallest freestanding tower in the world. Blackpool Tower is also the common name for the Tower Buildings, an entertainment complex in a red-brick three-storey block that comprises the tower, Tower Circus, the Tower Ballroom, and roof gardens, which was designated a Grade I listed building in 1973.

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Marketing the climate summit by ‘greening’ the Eiffel Tower

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The Eiffel Tower . . . and other stories

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How the Eiffel Tower became silent cinema’s icon

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Eiffel Tower–Anti. If the Ferris wheel shows the way the wheels of capitalism turned ever faster as it ratcheted down violence and reinforced the desires of the market, Tatlin’s Tower could be said to be an attempt to do the reverse. Anchored to a Russian Constructivist vision of modernity in which science meets a form of violent intensity, Tatlin’s Tower could be said to combine a heavy dose of functionalism with telluric mythology. If the Babel-like exoskeleton of Tatlin’s Tower reveals the intensity of the theological, its internal vault system shows the rationality of science and what Svetlana Boym once called “enchanted technology.” It was a technology that was many miles from the tell…

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Count De Lambert's Flight over the Eiffel Tower

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The Eiffel Tower ( EYE-fəl; French: Tour Eiffel [tuʁ ɛfɛl] ) is a lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Locally nicknamed "La dame de fer" (French for "Iron Lady") for its use of wrought iron, it was constructed as the centrepiece of the 1889 World's Fair, and to crown the centennial anniversary of the French Revolution. Although initially criticised by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, it has since become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world. The tower received 5,889,000 visitors in…

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Tokyo Tower (東京タワー, Tōkyō Tawā; pronounced [toːkʲoː taꜜɰᵝaː] ), also known by its official name Japan Radio Tower (日本電波塔, Nippon denpatō) is a communications and observation tower in the district of Shiba-koen in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, completed in 1958. At 332.9 meters (1,092 feet), it was the tallest tower in Japan until the construction of Tokyo Skytree in 2012. It is a lattice tower inspired by the Eiffel Tower, and is painted white and international orange to comply with air safety regulations. The tower's main sources of income are antenna leasing and tourism, and its five-story base building FootTown houses a number of restaurants, gift shops, and other attractions. Departing from it,…

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