Avenue des Champs-Élysées

Due to metallurgical innovations, 7300 tons of puddling iron was used in the tower to support the tall structure. This new iron technology allowed the Eiffel Tower to remain the tallest man-made structure from it’s 1889 completion until 1930 when the Chrysler Building was completed in New York City.

French army captain Gustave Ferrié (FAIR-ee-AY) worked from a wooden shack at the base of the Tower’s southern pillar. From there, he made radio contact with forts around Paris. In 1910, the city of Paris renewed the structure’s permit for another 70 years. The Tower was now saved and set to become the symbol of Paris.

For 130 years, the Eiffel Tower has been a powerful and distinctive symbol of the city of Paris, and by extension, of France. At first, when it was built for the 1889 World’s Fair, it impressed the entire world by its stature and daring design, and symbolized French know-how and industrial genius.

André Le Nôtre, Louis XIV the Sun King’s gardener, first designed the wide promenade lined with a double row of elm trees on each side, called the Grand Cours. It was renamed the Champs-Élysées in 1709 and extended, and by the end of the century had become a popular place to walk and picnic.

1 : the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology. 2 : paradise sense 2.

Elysium, also called Elysian Fields or Elysian Plain, in Greek mythology, originally the paradise to which heroes on whom the gods conferred immortality were sent. By the time of Hesiod, however, Elysium was a place for the blessed dead, and, from Pindar on, entrance was gained by a righteous life.

a state of great happiness: Everything was perfect. She was in Elysium.

Tartarus, the infernal regions of ancient Greek mythology. The name was originally used for the deepest region of the world, the lower of the two parts of the underworld, where the gods locked up their enemies. It gradually came to mean the entire underworld.

In the final weeks of the Human-Covenant War, Tartarus attempted to activate Installation 05 to begin the Great Journey, but he was ultimately killed by Arbiter Thel ‘Vadam with the help of Sergeant Major Avery Johnson.

In the New Testament, the noun Tartarus does not occur but tartaroō (ταρταρόω, “throw to Tartarus”), a shortened form of the classical Greek verb kata-tartaroō (“throw down to Tartarus”), does appear in 2 Peter 2:4.

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus.

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