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* 1995: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre was held at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The Director of Documentation for what was then the Société nouvelle d ' exploitation de la tour Eiffel ( SNTE ), Stéphane Dieu, commented in January 2005, " It is really just a way to manage commercial use of the image, so that it isn't used in ways we don't approve.
Although it was the world's tallest structure when completed in 1889, the Eiffel Tower has since lost its standing both as the tallest lattice tower and as the tallest structure in France.
Eiffel was originally developed by Eiffel Software, a company founded by Bertrand Meyer.
Sather, for example, was originally based on Eiffel but has since diverged, and now includes several functional programming features.
The standard was developed by ECMA International, which first approved the standard on 21 June 2005 as Standard ECMA-367, < cite > Eiffel: Analysis, Design and Programming Language </ cite >.
The film, Last Paradise, was launched in 2012 as an " original footage " history of extreme sports culture and adventure travel over 45 years, including the origins of extreme surfing, skiing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, windsurfing, hang gliding and kiteboarding, to the first commercialization of bungee jumping by A. J. Hackett, and his famed jump from the Eiffel Tower.
The design of the European flag was displayed on the Eiffel Tower in Paris to celebrate the French presidency of the EU in the second half of 2008.
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel ( ) ( 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923 ) was a French civil engineer and architect.
Gustave Eiffel was born in Dijon, in the Côte-d ' Or department of France, the first child of Alexandre and Catherine Eiffel.
Although the family always used the name Eiffel, Gustave's name was registered at birth as Bönickhausen, and was not formally changed to Eiffel until 1880.
The business was successful enough for Catherine Eiffel to sell the business in 1843 and retire on the proceeds.
Eiffel was not a studious child, and thought his classes at the Lycée Royal in Dijon boring and a waste of time, although in his last two years, influenced by his teachers for history and literature, he began to study seriously, so that he managed to gain his baccalauréats in humanities and science.
Eiffel had hoped to enter the École Polytechnique, but his tutors decided that his performance was not good enough, and instead he qualified for entry to the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris, which offered a rather more vocational training.
This was the year that Paris hosted the first World's Fair, and Eiffel was bought a season ticket by his mother
Some of Nepveu's businesses were then acquired by the Compagnie Belge de Matériels de Chemin de Fer: Nepveu was appointed the managing director of the two factories in Paris, and offered Eiffel a job as head of the research department.
Following the completion of the project on schedule Eiffel was appointed as the principal engineer of the Compagnie Belge.
The price quoted by Eiffel was FF. 965, 000, far below the nearest competitor and so he was given the job, although since his company was less experienced than his rivals the Portuguese authorities appointed a committee to report on Eiffel et Cie's suitability.

Eiffel and initially
Many concepts initially introduced by Eiffel later found their way into Java, C #, and other languages.
Eiffel initially hired Bernice as an employee at Borderline.
The statue initially faced east, toward the Eiffel Tower, but it was turned west in 1937 for the exposition universelle hosted by Paris that year.

Eiffel and given
In 1875 Eiffel et Cie were given two important contracts, one for a new terminus for the line from Vienna at Budapest and the other for a bridge over the river Douro in Portugal.
Like the Douro bridge, the project involved a lengthy viaduct crossing the river valley as well as the river crossing, and Eiffel was given the job without any process of competitive tendering due to his success with the bridge over the Douro.
After the match, the English side were awarded Silver medals, and the French side were given Bronze medals, and both teams were also given miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower.
Lesseps, his son Charles, members of the management as well as the engineer Gustave Eiffel, were at first given long jail sentences, although they were later annulled.
Between 1885 and 1887 the company had built the Maria Pia Bridge over the Douro at Porto, and when it was proposed to construct a railway between Marvejols and Neussargues in the Cantal department the work of constructing a viaduct to cross the River Truyère was given to Eiffel without the usual process of competitive tendering at the recommendation of the engineers of the state Highways Department since the technical problems involved were similar to those of the Maria Pia Bridge ; indeed, it was Eiffel & Cie's success with this project that had led to the proposal for a viaduct at Garabit.

Eiffel and eventually
Duncan eventually killed Kalas on top of the Eiffel Tower in the season's finale.

Eiffel and took
To assist him in the work he took on several people who were to play important roles in the design and construction of the Eiffel Tower, including Maurice Koechlin, a young graduate of the Zurich Polytechnikum, who was engaged to undertake calculations and make drawings, and Emile Nouguier, who had previously worked for Eiffel on the construction of the Douro bridge.
Since the lifts were not yet in operation, the ascent was made by foot, and took over an hour, Eiffel frequently stopping to make explanations of various features.
In 1889 the Exposition Universelle took place in Paris, and the Eiffel Tower was built as a temporary gate to the fair.
Ian gives Samantha a charm bracelet with different charms and symbols: a musical note, a violin, a flower ( which he describes as exquisite, much like Sam herself ), the train they took that day and the Eiffel Tower, which Sam had always wanted to see.
The tower took its shape of a double-cross from the original by Schinkel, but was, however, designed along the lines of Paris ' Eiffel Tower as a steel-framed structure, even components such as the arches between the legs being copied.

Eiffel and over
Eiffel emphasizes declarative statements over procedural code and attempts to eliminate the need for bookkeeping instructions.
Visitors can peek inside port windows and see mannequins of Edison and Eiffel ( and Eiffel's daughter, posed with the phonograph ), the tableau commemorating their fabled meeting of September 10, 1899 in which, over cigars and cognac, they discussed possible joint projects and their participation in Jules Verne's " smoking club " for avowed futurists, dubbed Plus Ultra.
Gustave Eiffel, the creator of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, drew the projects of one of Timișoara's footbridges over the Bega.
On October 19, 1901 he flew his airship " Number 6 " over Paris from the Parc de Saint Cloud around the Eiffel Tower and back in under 30 minutes to win the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize.
The fair displayed, in view of over 50 million people, many machines, inventions, and architecture that are now ( nearly ) universally known, including ; escalators, the Eiffel Tower, Ferris wheels, Russian Nesting Dolls, Campbell's Soup, Diesel engines, talking films, and the Telegraphone ( the precursor to modern day sound recording ).
After some persuasion, Tellman slides the gun over to Isabel who puts it in her Kelly bag before throwing it off the Eiffel Tower.
He arrives at the Eiffel Tower where Kate's special forces have taken it over.
This is, however, not correct, because in contrast to the Eiffel Tower, Petřínská rozhledna has an octagonal and not a square cross section over its whole height.
* PK 1 Briare with its famous Briare aqueduct built by Gustave Eiffel in 1890 over the Loire.

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