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What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you plan for a trip? Yes! Obviously most of us think about Paris, Eiffel Tower. But what was the history behind its construction and why was it built? Well, there are several reasons. One of the seven wonders of the world, named by the man who built it, GUSTAVE EIFFEL. It was made up of iron. The iron used to built the tower went through a refining process called puddling process to eliminate the excess carbon. The paint on the Tower has to be renewed for every seven years as recommended by Eiffel. It requires 60 tones of paint. And it is done with 25 painters only. HISTORY:-      It was at the 10 th Exposition Universelle at 1889, the date that marked the 100 th anniversary of the French Revolution, that a great competition was launched in the Journal officiel.        The Eiffel Tower was built from 1887 to 1889 by French engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company was specialized in building metal frameworks and structures. The

  Guinness world Records  is  a record book which consists of both human achievements  and the extremes of natural world  which includes the world’s longest reef, most dangerous ant , most dangerous tree, tallest waterfall etc.., Guinness World  Records  was also called as The Guinness Book Of  Records from 1995 to 1999. History :-         The idea came about in the 1950’s when Sir Hugh Beaver who was an English South African Engineer, also the Founder and Managing Director of Guinness Brewery, attended a shooting party in country Wexford.   After missing a shot on the Golden Plover, Hugh and the hosts involved in an argument about which is the fastest bird in Europe. At the evening at Castel   bridge house, Hugh realised  that  he cannot find an answers in any reference books. After that, he thought this kind of debates will go everywhere but there was no records to settle those debates. And then he came to the idea of supplying answers to this sort of debates.