August 30, or Eiffel Tower 150 Million Visitor and Fight Against Secret Imprisoning
Zodiac Sign Virgo
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Virgo, August 30. Born on this day confidently walk the road of life, having a stubborn character, indestructible like a rock.
Wherever their area of interest lies, in their work they strive for quite tangible results, preferring not to deal with risky or unrealistic enterprises.
Brilliant financiers who know how to make a profit out of thin air, they have a legitimate pride in successfully running a company, personal or family assets.
As a rule, the house of those born on August 30 is kept in perfect order. Not striking with luxury, he admires the thoughtfulness of every detail. There is nothing superfluous in it, everything is strict, dignified, but ... sometimes it is uncomfortable: maybe there is not enough robe thrown on the floor.
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Virgo men born on August 30:
- possess the following traits:
- cleanliness,
- loyal,
- logical,
- reasonable,
- thoughtful.
- The Virgo man is calm and reasonable.
- Demonstration, posturing and boasting are alien to him.
- He watches for a long time, looks closely and carefully thinks out his every step.
- In a relationship, such a man will rarely decide to take the initiative, but there is no doubt about his loyalty and reliability.
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Virgo women born on August 30:
- characterized by such properties:
- modest,
- prudent,
- practical.
- The Virgo woman is the ideal of fidelity, devotion and constancy.
- At the first meeting, she seems cold, unapproachable and indifferent.
- The reasons for this behavior lie in the fact that the Virgo woman must carefully weigh all the risks and analyze the situation before showing her emotions.
Main event
On the Eiffel Tower rose 150 million visitor
August 30, 1993
August 30, 1993
The Eiffel Tower is a metal tower in the center of Paris, its most recognizable architectural landmark. Named after the chief designer Gustave Eiffel; Eiffel himself called it simply "a 300-meter tower".
The tower, which later became the symbol of Paris, was built in 1889 and was originally conceived as a temporary structure, serving as the entrance arch of the 1889 Parisian World Exhibition.
The Eiffel Tower is called the most visited paid landmark of the world and the most photographed.
The World Exhibition of 1889 took place in Paris and was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Great French Revolution. The Paris City Administration appealed to famous French engineers with a proposal to take part in an architectural competition. At such a competition, it was necessary to create a structure that visibly demonstrates the engineering and technological achievements of the country.
The Eiffel project becomes one of the four winners, and then the engineer makes final changes to it, finding a compromise between the original purely engineering design scheme and the decorative option. In the end, the committee stops at the Eiffel plan. Having won the first prize of the competition, Eifel enthusiastically exclaimed: "France will be the only country that has a 300-meter flagpole!"
In January 1887, Eifel, the state and the municipality of Paris, signed an agreement according to which Eifel was granted personal use of the tower's operational lease for a period of 25 years, and provided for a cash grant of 1.5 million gold francs, representing 25% of all expenditures for construction of the tower. On December 31, 1888, with the purpose of attracting missing funds, a joint stock company with a statutory fund of 5 million francs was established. Half of this amount - funds contributed by the three banks, the second half - the personal funds of the Eiffel himself.
The total construction budget was 7.8 million francs. The tower paid off for the exhibition period, and its subsequent operation proved to be a very profitable business.
Events and facts
- The Eiffel Tower took first place in the ranking of the most disappointing tourist attractions, compiled by one travel company in 2007. The Eiffel Tower, according to the survey, expressed disappointment to more than a quarter of respondents: they said that it had too many people to enjoy the view.
- In the world there are many copies of the Eiffel Tower of various sizes.
Scams with Tower
- During the 83 years of its existence, the famous tower was sold - at least two dozen times - in its entirety.
- In 1925 the swindler Victor Lustig managed to "sell" the tower twice for scrap.
- In 1954, a Swedish citizen, introduced by the general director of the joint-stock company, proposed to cover the tower with anti-corrosion paint. Having received a loan to buy 50 tons of dye, he disappeared in an unknown direction.
- In 1960, English greengrocer David Sams sold Eiffel Tower to the one Dutch company as scrap metal. He managed to prove (with the help of false documents) that he was entrusted to the dismantling of the tower by the municipality of Paris. As a result, the Englishman was imprisoned, and the company was left without its millions
- For a long time, tickets were sold with two perforated corners. Controllers at the foot of the tower tore off one corner and let the excursion to the elevator inside one of the "legs" of the tower, raising to the 1st platform. At this site there was a ticket office, where you could buy a ticket for climbing to the very top of the tower (in an elevator located along the central axis of the whole structure). But, if you do not buy the second ticket, and present the original ticket (with one corner already torn off at the bottom), then ... the inspectors tore off the second corner, and without any additional costs (for the second ticket) it was possible to go up.
Day of the Disappeared
The International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, also called the Day of the Disappeared, is celebrated on August 30 of each year. He is proclaimed in order to draw public attention to the fate of those who have been imprisoned, whose whereabouts are unknown to their relatives and / or legal representatives.
Enforced disappearances entered the strategy of planting an atmosphere of terror and, according to experts of the UN General Assembly, have become a global problem. Previously, such cases were associated with dictatorial regimes, but today they occur in a variety of situations, especially in internal conflicts as a means of political suppression of opponents. The number of disappearances of people in unknown circumstances is estimated at tens of thousands and is practiced in many countries. In particular, the OHCHR working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances estimates the number of such countries to forty-six.
The fight against secret imprisoning is an important part of the work of a number of international and non-governmental organizations in the field of human rights and humanitarian assistance, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and also ''Amnesty International'' and ''Reporters Without Borders''. The International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances is an opportunity to once again highlight the work of these organizations, raise public awareness, call for donations and volunteers.
Imprisonment in secret or uncertain circumstances is a gross violation of human rights, and in the event of an armed conflict, of international humanitarian law. The UN General Assembly adopted the ''Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance'' as resolution on December 18, 1992.
On August 30, 2008, the ''International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances'', which brings together family members and human rights organizations from around the world, joined forces to hold a global event to promote wider ratification of the 2006 ''International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforcement Disappearances''.
Also on August 30...
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (died 1851), English writer (''Frankenstein'') was born.
1860 - first British tram (Birkenhead Street) is launched.
1867 - cocaine was extracted from coca leaves.
1871 - Ernest Rutherford was born, an English physicist, the "father" of nuclear physics, the creator of the planetary model of the atom, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 "for his research on the decay of elements in the chemistry of radioactive substances."
1873 - Polar explorers Julius Payer and Karl Weiprecht discovered an uninhabited Arctic archipelago, which was named ''Franz Josef Land''.
1877 - French self-taught inventor Emile Renault patented the praxinoscope - the progenitor of animation.
1901 - English inventor Hubert Cecil Booth patented an electric vacuum cleaner.
1954 - Alexander Lukashenko was born, President of the Republic of Belarus.
1968 - ''Hey Jude'', "Beatles" single released. The world circulation of the single in 1968 is 6 million copies and the first place in all charts.
1972 - Cameron Diaz was born, an American actress (“Mask”, “Charlie's Angels”, “Very Bad Teacher”).
1973 - elephant hunting is banned in Kenya.
1980 - in Poland, workers are granted the right to join independent trade unions.
1991 - Communist Party banned in Ukraine.
1995 - von Techner and Ivarsey set up Opera Software, which continued to develop the browser. This day is considered by developers to be Opera’s “birthday”.
2002 - Henry Kuprashvili, in the old Georgian military-training style, tied hand and foot in four places, the first in the history of mankind swam across the Dardanelles, sailing 12 kilometers in 3 hours and 15 minutes.
2003 - died Charles Bronson (name Karolis Dionyzas Bučinskis or Charles Dennis Buchinsky) (b. 1921), American film actor.
2015 - died Wes Craven (b. 1939), American film director, producer, screenwriter, known for his works in the genre of horror.
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