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The national sym-bol of France wel-comes nearly sev-en million visitors every year. Follow along and learn more about the Eif-fel Tower, one of the most recogniz-able structures in the world.
• Paris was chosen as the site of the 1889 World’s Fair to mark the 100th celebration of the French Revolution. The city solicited ideas for a unique entranceway to the area. Gustave Eiffel’s company submitted the winning design, although it was Eiffel’s employee Morris Koechlin who ac-tually designed the Tower.
• Ground was broken in January of 1887, and over the next two years, two months and five days, 300 workers on wood scaffolding assembled more than 18,000 pieces of iron, holding them together with 2.5 million rivets to form the open-framed structure. Gustave Eiffel was adamant about safe-ty precautions, and as a result, only one worker died during the construction.
• At the time of its completion, the Tower was, at 986 feet (300.5 m), the tallest structure in the world, surpassing the previous record-holder, the Washington Monument. For 41 years, the Eiffel
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Tower kept that title. But in 1930, New York City’s Chrysler Building exceeded the Tower’s height.
• Gustave Eiffel engraved the names of 72 notable French scientists and engineers on the side of the tower in 23.6-inch-high (60-cm) letters, just un-der the first platform; there are 18 names on each side.
• Nicknamed La dame de fer, or the iron lady, the Tower was finished at a cost of about $1.5 million, which translates to about $58 million in today’s dollars. By the end of its first year, the Tower had recouped about 75 percent of its initial cost.
• The Tower was not well-received by Parisians and was frequently referred to as the “eyesore.” The structure’s building permit allowed it to stand for 20 years, after which it was to be dismantled. However, in 1898, it was determined that the Tower was valuable as a radio tower, and it was saved from demolition.
• There are 347 steps to the first level of the Tower where visitors can dine at the fine restaurant Le 58 tour Eiffel. Another 674 steps bring climbers to the second level, location of the swanky restau-rant Le Jules Verne. If climbing to the top of the Eiffel Tower is on your bucket list, this is one item that you can’t check off. Tourists can only climb as far as the second level, with access to the summit by elevator only. At the top, on a clear day, visitors can see 42 miles in every direction.
• In order to protect the Tower from oxidation, its iron surfaces are repainted about every sev-en years, 18 times since its 1889 opening day. All the painting is done by hand by 25 painters over an 18-month period. About 50 tons of paint are used, along with 1,500 brushes, 5,000 sand-ing disks and 1,000 scrapers. The Tower’s color has changed occasionally over the years, starting with red-brown, progressing to yellow-ocher and chestnut brown, and finally ending up with its current bronze color.
• About seven million people visit the Eiffel Tower each year, making it the most visited paid monu-ment in the world. Since its opening, it has wel-comed 250 million people from every corner of the world.
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THE SHIRT ON YOUR BACK“Keep your shirt on” as you read these interesting bits of information about this
essential item. • The ever-popular Hawaiian shirt was first marketed as the “Aloha” shirt in the
early 1930s. Chinese merchant Ellery Chun was living in Waikiki and began sewing the colorful shirts out of old kimono fabrics in the back room of the dry goods store where he worked. Surfers and tourists snapped up the shirts as fast as Chun could produce them. Their popularity spread to the mainland when military personnel returned home after World War II. President Harry Truman wore them on a regular basis and appeared on the cover of Life magazine wear-ing one.
• Although the first college football game was played in 1869, players didn’t start wearing team jerseys until 1877. Because there were no distinct uniforms, it was becoming more difficult to tell the difference between the two teams. Prin-ceton University was the first team to don a specialized jersey, a black cotton sweater with an orange “P” worn under a laced canvas jacket. The jacket was designed by a player, L. P. Smock, which led to the term used today for a loosely fitted garment. Football jerseys didn’t feature numbers until 1916, when the NCAA instigated rules requiring one on the back, and it wasn’t until 1937 that numbers on both front and back became regulation.
• The word “T-shirt” didn’t appear in the English dictionary until the 1920s, and, at that time, was solely used to refer to underwear. Its origin dates to World War I when American troops were clad in wool uniforms during Europe’s hot sum-mers. They saw European soldiers wearing lightweight cotton undershirts, and it wasn’t long before the Army and Navy had them as part of their uniforms. They were named T-shirts because of the outline of the garment’s shape. They moved from underwear to fashion in the 1950s when James Dean appeared in “Rebel Without a Cause” wearing a T-shirt, and Marlon Brando wore one in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Almost overnight, it became cool to wear underwear as a fashion statement.
• Tie-dyed T-shirts became a craze in the 1960s, and the introduction of screen-printing provided the opportunity to create shirts bearing artwork, slogans and advertising. Screen-printing uses screens as stencils, with ink directly imprint-ed onto the fabric. A different screen is required for each color. Today’s digital printing is much easier, eliminating the need for separate screens. Much like an ink-jet printer works with your computer, digital printing allows multiple colors to be printed directly onto the shirt.
• The Smithsonian Institute is home to the oldest printed T-shirt, a campaign shirt for New York Governor Thomas Dewey’s 1948 presidential bid against Harry Truman. Cardinal, scarlet, ruby, flame,
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SEEING REDCranberry or carnelian: No matter how you say it,
the color is red! This week, Tidbits looks at what Crayola ranks as America’s 12th favorite color.
• The longest wavelength of light discernible by the human eye is red. Longer wavelengths can’t be seen and are called infrared. Red light carries the least amount of energy. It’s also the highest arc of the rainbow.
• Early red dye was a very expensive commodity. It came from the female cochineal, a little beetle found in Mexican cacti. When the Spaniards ar-rived in Mexico in the 16th century, they scraped the beetles off the plants and dried them, then shipped them to Europe. About one million bee-tles were required to produce a pound of water-soluble extract.
• Symbolism associated with the color red is full of opposites. We think of it as the color of love — red roses, Valentine’s Day and Cupid — but it is also the color of danger, hate and the devil. Red can be used as a symbol of guilt, sin and anger, as in the Biblical statement, “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel “The Scarlet Letter” tells the story of a woman in sin forced to sew a red letter “A” onto her clothing.
• According to psychological research, people of both genders find those of the opposite sex more attractive if they’re wearing red. Men wearing red appear more powerful to women, as well as higher in status and more likely to succeed. In a University of Rochester study, men were shown identical photos of the same woman. In one, she’s in a blue dress, and in the other, the dress is dig-itally altered to red. Consistently, men chose the photo of her in the red dress as more attractive.
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• Other research indicates that red can keep us from doing our best on important tests. During experiments, those who saw a flash of red before the test were impaired in their performance, per-haps because they associat-ed the color with mistakes and failures, as errors have been traditionally marked in red on school papers. Studies also show that red elicits the strongest reac-tion of all colors and can actually stimulate energy and increase blood pres-sure, respiration, heartbeat and pulse rate.
• Most Americans have probably seen the U.S. flag countless times without knowing what its colors mean. The red stripes symbolize “courage, har-diness and blood shed from the brave men and women who fought for America,” while the white stripes stand for purity and equality. The blue field represents justice, perseverance and vigilance.
• Before the days of synthetic dyes, the shade of red known as crimson was produced by using the dried bodies of the kermes insect. This bug is found in the Kermes oak tree, which grows in Mediterranean countries. Crimson is not only the official color of Harvard University’s athletic team, it is also the name of the team itself. Likewise, the University of Alabama’s 19 varsity sports teams adopted the name Crimson Tide in the early 20th century.
• An abundant amount of iron oxide on the surface of Mars gives the planet its red color, hence its nickname, the Red Planet. The fourth planet from the sun, Mars is the only planet whose surface can be seen in detail from Earth.
• In China, red is the symbol of good luck and fortune, and a bride traditionally wears red and walks down a red carpet to her groom, who lifts her red veil. When the couple’s children are born, well-wishers gift them with red eggs. During Chi-nese New Year, homes are decorated with red, red clothing is worn, and unmarried children are giv-en red envelopes filled with “luck money.” Feng shui is an ancient Chinese method of organizing our spaces to achieve balance, harmony and good fortune. Devotees of feng shui recommend paint-ing your home’s front door red to invite prosper-ity.
• Surveys reveal that those who drive red cars have dynamic personalities, are high-energy, speedy and sexy.
• Bees can see all bright colors except red. Conse-quently, red flowers are usually pollinated by but-terflies, birds and wind.
• Your blood is red because it contains the protein chemical known as hemoglobin. Bright red in color, hemoglobin contains iron, which makes it a superb medium for transporting the oxygen and carbon dioxide essential for the body’s functions.
• The word red has found its way into many terms and phrases in the English language. When you’re really angry, you’re seeing red. And lots of things can cause you to see red: going through a lot of red tape (having to endure excessive paperwork or requirements to complete a process), or having your checkbook in the red, meaning it is below balance. Taking the red eye? You’re on an over-night flight. There’s not much recourse if you’ve been caught red-handed, because you’re clearly guilty. That might cause you to become red in the face or extremely embarrassed. Has someone given you poor advice? Guidance with no value
isn’t worth a red cent. Now and then, we’ve all re-ceived the red carpet treatment, when we’ve been made to feel special, and we’ve all had red-letter days, which were important, memorable or joy-
ful. After such days, many folks like to paint the town red, meaning they go out to celebrate!• A poem entitled “Warn-ing” inspired the forma-tion of The Red Hat soci-ety, a social group founded for the purpose of “fun, friendship, freedom, ful-fillment and fitness” for women over 50. The lines “When I am an old wom-
an I shall wear purple, with a red hat that doesn’t go and doesn’t suit me” gave the original group of 18 their signature hat idea. Within seven years, there were 40,000 chapters of the group world-
wide. The Society has an online store, a magazine and more than 70,000 registered members who believe “silliness is the comedy relief of life.” The first red hat, which had been a birthday gift to one of the charter members, has been donated to the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
• Restaurateur Bill Darden’s first restaurant wasn’t a Red Lobster, but rather The Green Frog. His first Red Lobster came along in 1968, opening in Lakeland, Florida. The chain now operates close to 700 locations throughout North America.
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“Hello, sweetie, how are you?” It was my wife calling.“I quit today, honey, I couldn’t take it any long-er,” she said with an intense and serious voice. Pronouncing each word specifically and clearly she continued, “I picked up my things off my desk and I quietly walked out of that office and I’m never going back.” For over a year she had been working at a most unpleasant job in a noisy and confusing office. Her position was not well suited to the gifts and skills that she naturally possessed, but she labored on because the pay was good and our family needed the money.Back then (this happened many years ago) it would have been common for me to yell into the phone, “You did what? You must be crazy! How we gonna pay the bills?…” and shriek on and on for five minutes of high tension verbiage that would do absolutely nothing to help the situa-tion.Fortunately I did not respond with my usual explosion. Instead I said sincerely and enthusi-astically, “That’s great. You didn’t belong there anyway! I’m proud of you. We’ll all go out for dinner tonight and celebrate!”Don’t get me wrong, the family crisis was real because we needed her income to make our bills. But our conversations for the next few days did not center around all the woe that could possibly befall us should she not find another job right away. Instead we reviewed all the good things that could happen now that she was free of the stress and turmoil of working for the wrong company. What we did was we animated our attitudes. We could have wallowed in anxiety and fear. We could have blamed her employer, worried about the future, and rehearsed all the bad things that were sure to happen now that her “career was over”, which, of course, it was not. But we didn’t do that – and neither should you when you are faced with a life-altering situation or for that matter, when faced with only a minor irritation.To animate your attitude means to talk yourself into energy, vitality, possibilities, courage and faith. Why? Because a positive attitude will lead to new opportunities and a bright future; while a gloomy, negative outlook will lead only to despair and failure. Within only a few days after my wife walked off her lousy job she had a wonderful new job with a good company located closer to home – a job where all of her skills were utilized, her talents were appreciated and the pay was just as good.Some things are beyond your control. But one thing is always within your control - your atti-tude, your response, your way of behaving. Talk yourself into joy not regret, hope not depression and prosperity not poverty.Animate your attitude and you’ll be ready for the boom!
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• It was English philosopher Francis Bacon who made the following sage observation: “The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
• I’m sure you’ve seen photos of those picturesque covered bridges. It seems that they would have provided a welcome haven for people driving buggies caught out in the rain. You may be sur-prised to learn, though, that the bridges weren’t designed with a roof for the comfort of travelers. Being made of wood in an era before protective sealants, the bridges themselves needed to be protected from the elements.
• Most frogs lay their eggs in the water; that way, when the tadpoles hatch they are already in their element. The red-eyed tree frog, however, pro-tects its eggs from aquatic predators by attaching its eggs to the underside of leaves that hang out over a body of water. Once the eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall into the water.
• The next time you travel to the United Kingdom, if you visit the university towns of Cambridge or Oxford, you should keep off the grass. Professors are the only ones allowed to walk on most of the green swards in those towns.
• In ancient Rome, it was widely believed that holding in gas could cause a person to catch a disease or become poisoned. This was such a concern to public health that Emperor Claudius went so far as to pass a law making it legal to fart at banquets.
• Have you ever known someone who keeps mak-ing the same error over and over again despite being corrected? The next time you run into this person, you’ll know what to call him or her: a mumpsimus.
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