History Quiz

[Annie]

I googled; Xia

Yeehaw! I love google and dogpile!

 

[Said1]

Yeehaw! I love google and dogpile!

It's late, even googling is hard sometimes.

Who designed the Eiffle Tower? Actually, I have no idea.

 

[IControlThePast]

It's late, even googling is hard sometimes.

Who designed the Eiffle Tower? Actually, I have no idea.

Ummm, Eiffel? :tng:

 

[manu1959]

It's late, even googling is hard sometimes.

Who designed the Eiffle Tower? Actually, I have no idea.

gustav eiffle for a competition?

http://france.archiseek.com/paris/eiffel_lge.html

 

[Said1]

gustav eiffle for a competition?

Yep. Your turn. And make it easy, ok?

 

[Annie]

It's late, even googling is hard sometimes.

Who designed the Eiffle Tower? Actually, I have no idea.

Damn, it IS late. I thought this was a pm and answered you there! :funnyface

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923; was a French engineer and entrepreneur, specialist of metallic structures.

Born in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France, he is most famous for building the Eiffel Tower, built from 1887-1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France. It is less well known that he designed the armature for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, USA. He gained his expertise in construction by designing ironwork for bridges.

He projected The Maria Pia Bridge in Porto city, Portugal. This railway bridge is a great piece of work with a double hinged arch that sustains the single lane railway plate through pillars to reinforce the whole of the bridge. The construction works began on 5 January 1876 and were concluded the following year on 31 October. The solemn inauguration ceremony took place on 4 November 1877 by the king D. Luís and the queen D.Maria Pia, after whom the bridge was named. This bridge was used for 114 years, until 1991, when the a new one (St. John Bridge) became active.

Gustave Eiffel also designed La Ruche in Paris, that would, like the Eiffel Tower, become a city landmark. A three-storey circular structure that looked more like a large beehive, it was created as a temporary structure for use as a wine rotunda at the Great Exposition of 1900. He constructed the Garabit viaduct, a railroad bridge near Ruynes en Margeride in the Cantal département.

Eiffel's reputation suffered a severe setback when he was implicated in financial scandals round Ferdinand de Lesseps and the entrepreneurs backing the failed French Panama Canal project. Eiffel himself had no connection with the finances, and his guilty judgment was later reversed.

In his later years Eiffel began to study aerodynamics.

Eiffel died on December 27, 1923 in his mansion on Rue Rabelais in Paris and was interred in the Cimetière de Levallois-Perret, also in Paris.

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Famous buildings
Eiffel Tower
Statue of Liberty
Nice Observatory

 

[manu1959]

Yep. Your turn. And make it easy, ok?

adolf hitlers original profession

 

[Said1]

Damn, it IS late. I thought this was a pm and answered you there! :funnyface

Then please, ignore my reply. :clap1:

 

[Annie]

adolf hitlers original profession

Drawing bad postcards.

 

[Semper Fi]

adolf hitlers original profession

Farmer.

 

[manu1959]

Drawing bad postcards.

close enough you are up

 

[Said1]

Farmer.

Himmler was a farmer wasn't he? And a salesmen.

 

[Semper Fi]

I dont know, maybe. Hitler at least grew up in the country, right?

 

[IControlThePast]

close enough you are up

Failed Artist in Vienna, right?

 

[Annie]

close enough you are up

Speaking of Hitler, who was his friend that bummed off of and tried to convince of his 'brilliance' as an artist? This same friend went on to write books about Hitler after the war.

 

[Said1]

I dont know, maybe. Hitler at least grew up in the country, right?

Pretty much, really small village.

 

[Said1]

Speaking of Hitler, who was his friend that bummed off of and tried to convince of his 'brilliance' as an artist? This same friend went on to write books about Hitler after the war.

Himmler?

 

[Annie]

Himmler?

Nope, this would be in Vienna, sticking with his bad art...

 

[USViking]

It looks like Manu, the last correct responder, has been drowned out by the ladies' side conversation here, and has retired for the night.

Perhaps one of the ladies could find the time to ask a question, preferably one to which she herself knows the answer.

 

[Said1]

Nope, this would be in Vienna, sticking with his bad art...

Whatever.










I'm going to stop posting here now.