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2. The Eiffel Tower is closed while workers strike on the 100th ...

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   The Eiffel Tower was closed to visitors Wednesday because of a strike over contract negotiations timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the death of its creator, Gustave Eiffel. One of ...

3. Eiffel Tower Fast Facts - AOL

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   Read CNN’s Fast Facts and learn more about the Eiffel Tower in Paris. ... 2 months and 5 days). 1889 - The tower opens during the Universal Exposition, a fair celebrating the 100th anniversary ...

4. Strike at the Eiffel Tower closes one of the world's most ...

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   The Eiffel Tower is typically open 365 days a year. Monday’s closure is the second in two months due to strikes. ... it was closed to visitors for an entire day during Christmas and New Year’s ...

5. Eiffel Tower - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. List of tallest buildings and structures in the Paris region

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   However the tallest tower is built within central Paris: the iconic Eiffel Tower standing alongside the Seine River at the heart of the 7th arrondissement. Built in 1889, it was the first man-made structure in the world to exceed 1,000 feet.

7. Exposition Universelle (1889) - Wikipedia

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   The Eiffel firm had advance knowledge of the project and, beginning in 1884, had already designed a tower exactly to those dimensions. The structural design was created by two Eiffel engineers, Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, who along with Eiffel himself, received the patent for the plan.

8. Strike closes Eiffel Tower in blow to tourists ahead of Paris ...

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   The Eiffel Tower, one of the most visited tourist sites in the world, closed on Monday as staff went on strike in protest against the way the Paris monument is managed financially, disappointing ...

9. Millennium celebrations - Wikipedia

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   Millennium countdown on the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France. The millennium celebrations were a worldwide, coordinated series of events to celebrate and commemorate the end of 1999 and the start of the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar.