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2 unusual facts about Eiffel


Eiffel Bridge, Ungheni

:For other uses of this and similar names, see Eiffel.

Eiffel Bridge, Zrenjanin

In 1903, city authorities granted an order for a new, steel bridge to Gustave Eiffel's company in Paris.


Buhl, Haut-Rhin

Maurice Koechlin: structural engineer, designer of Eiffel Tower, born in Buhl

Eiffel Flats

Wiridzayi Nguruve, who in 1982 became the first Commissioner of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, was the member in charge of Eiffel Flats Police Station as a Sub Inspector, in the mid-1970s.

EiffelStudio

5.4, November 2003: new conversion mechanism, major run-time performance improvements (in particular for agents), major compilation speed improvements, improved support for multithreading, major EiffelBuild enhancements, first support for new mechanisms as defined by the ECMA Eiffel committee, support for preconditions and postconditions in external (e.g. C) routines, transparent way to call overloaded .

The Eiffel community actively participates in its development; a list of open projects is available from the Origo site, hosted at ETH Zurich (see "external links"), together with the source code base for check-out, discussion forums etc.

Erika Eiffel

Her love for the Eiffel Tower and long standing relationship with the Berlin Wall are the subjects of numerous newspaper articles and television documentaries.

Gaston Tissandier

La Tour Eiffel de 300 mètres: description du monument, sa construction, ses organes mécaniques, son but et son utilité. Avec une lettre autographie de G. Eiffel (1889)

Jean Rabier

Les Plus Belles Escroqueries du monde (The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers) (segment L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel) (1964)

Legends about Theoderic the Great

He claims Berne, where Thidrek/Didrik started his rise, to be identical with Varne, south of Aachen, the Roman Verona cisalpina, in the district of the northern Rhine/Eiffel lands.

Maurizio Lobina

Following Eiffel 65's breakup in 2005, Maurizio joined with Jeffrey Jey to form the band Bloom 06.

Object-based language

Examples of object-oriented languages include Simula, Smalltalk, C++ (whose object model was based on Simula's), Objective-C (whose object model was based on Smalltalk's), Eiffel, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, and REALbasic (an object-oriented BASIC dialect).

Sather

Even the name is inspired by Eiffel; the Sather Tower is a recognizable landmark at Berkeley, named after Jane Krom Sather, the widow of Peder Sather, who donated large sums to the foundation of the university.

Saturation arithmetic

Saturation arithmetic for integers has also been implemented in software for a number of programming languages including C, C++, Eiffel.

The Lavender Hill Mob

The scene where Holland and Pendlebury run down the Eiffel Tower steps and become increasingly dizzy and erratic, as does the camera work, presages James Stewart's condition in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, made seven years later.

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

The Man on the Eiffel Tower is a 1949 American mystery film directed by Burgess Meredith and starring Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Meredith, and Robert Hutton.

The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite

After a brief background is given on The Umbrella Academy, the plot jumps ten years ahead and tells of an event when The Umbrella Academy (aged ten) defended Paris against a Zombie Robot Gustave Eiffel, resulting in The Eiffel Tower flying into space.

Timothy D. Korson

“Enhanced Graphics Component for Eiffel” with a research grant from Interactive Software Engineering from 1988 to 1989.

Tororo Rock

There is saying in Tororo: "The Eiffel Tower is to Paris as the magnificent Tororo Rock is to Tororo District.


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