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Pinwheel (toy), a spinning children's toy; Pinwheel (cryptography), a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits; Pinwheel (shogi), an opening in the game shogi or Japanese chess; Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later turn into Nickelodeon; Pinwheel, a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977 to 1984
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A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind . It is a predecessor to the more complex whirligigs .
The Eiffel Tower was the world's tallest structure when completed in 1889, a distinction it retained until 1929 when the Chrysler Building in New York City was topped out. [102] The tower also lost its standing as the world's tallest tower to the Tokyo Tower in 1958 but retains its status as the tallest freestanding (non-guyed) structure in France.
Gustave Eiffel chose this "invocation of science" because of his concern over the protests against the tower, and chose names of those who had distinguished themselves since 1789. [2] The engravings are found on the sides of the tower under the first balcony, in letters about 60 cm (24 in) tall, and were originally painted in gold.
The Eiffel Tower was built by Gustave Eiffel. The series was painted in an emerging Orphist style, an art movement co-founded by Robert and Sonia Delaunay and František Kupka that added bright colors and increased abstraction to Cubism. The Eiffel Tower series sits chronologically and stylistically between the artist's Saint-Séverin series ...