Eiffel Tower
About Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower 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.
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This was for a world's exposition which France was holding in 1900, and they needed a sequel to the Eiffel Tower, because the Eiffel Tower was a huge hit and they said we need another thing that's really big to be the kind of centrepiece of the exposition.
from 139: No Such Thing As A Lobster Nappy, 2016-11-12 at 00:09:02 · read transcript
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He was so impressed by all the technology that he named all his three daughters off the back of that one expo. He named his daughters the Italian words for, but in English, light, electricity, and propeller. Andy, you were talking about they wanted to kind of do something that was like the Eiffel Tower, but better. They asked for suggestions, and a lot of people decided, well, maybe you should just do something with the Eiffel Tower.
139: No Such Thing As A Lobster Nappy, 2016-11-12 · listen
It was incredibly popular, so it was visited by more people than the population of France at the time and it was only over for six months I think was visited by 50 million people and the French population was 38 million at the time so people were into it yeah and they were apparently the technology of it was genuinely astounding and I read a read about a guy an artist Italian artist who went over for it called Giacomo Bala and he was so impressed by all the technology saw that he named all his three daughters off the back of that one expo he named his daughters the Italian words for but in English light a electricity and propeller. Andy, you were talking about they wanted to kind of do something that was like the Eiffel Tower but better.
No Such Thing As A Lobster Nappy, 2016-11-12 · listen
In the UK, I think we had up to about 60 or 70 miles an hour. I'm talking about something that was going at 112 miles an hour. This is public transport. In 1880, something you could travel on. Oh, it wasn't like you'd jump off. Because if you jump off the Eiffel Tower or something. I wouldn't say jump off the Eiffel Tower is transport. In 1880, definitely not. Another bad commute, darling. Yes.
460: No Such Thing as Proust's Sausage Roll, 2023-01-06 · listen
His native country was South Africa, and then it was France, where he currently lived. So what he did was, he went to the Eiffel Tower, and he was dressed like a bird. He was wearing a garter and tights and these long red gloves and no underwear or trousers, and had tied a rooster to his penis, and was being led around the Eiffel Tower by his penis by a rooster.
92: No Such Thing As A Frozen Chicken Haunting, 2015-12-18 · listen
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139: No Such Thing As A Lobster Nappy put 4 places on the map.
- Paris · France
- Mars
- Caesars Palace · United States
Coordinates: 48.8584, 2.2945