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A History Of The Eiffel Tower

On 2nd Might 1886, the Journal Officiel launched a competition to discover the possibility of erecting a 300m tall metal tower on the Champ de Mars. More than one hundred entries were submitted but only Eiffel’s tower fulfilled the rather biased brief. Nonetheless, several men and women doubted his potential to total such a project — the tallest tower in the world at the time was the 169.2m Washington Monument. His contributions to scientific investigation should not be forgotten either. On the tower’s internet site, Bertrand Lemoine, an architect, engineer and historian, provides a far more optimistic view. The Eiffel...

Romania Country Web Page Planet Human Rights Watch

Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen led the voivode as King of Romania. Real independence of Turkey was not obtainable until the Russo-Turkish War of 1877. Though Rumania rendered precious help to Russia against the Turks, Russia regarded Rumania as a stumbling block to her ambitions in the Balkans and in Constantinople. Russia regarded her seizure of Bessarabia as a preliminary step to her intended annexation of all Rumania, when the time must be ripe. The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859 beneath the domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza. Its capital and...