@Merman_Melville i imagine its actually pretty nice aside from knowing everyone you have met in the past 20 years doesnt actually like you, including family
@NeogiClaws@EelsPdf@tombarfield Yea so an ADA liability and tort liability are not the same. This is about a step you can’t really see and tripping/hurting yourself. The other is about accessibility. Tort law exists everywhere, but American is very litigious by comparison to Europe/has more generous juries
The Eiffel Tower you know is not exactly the Eiffel Tower that opened in 1889.
Its first platform was once wrapped with ornate decorative arcades — part of the architectural embellishments added by Stephen Sauvestre to soften the tower’s industrial iron structure. But for the 1937 Paris International Exposition, the first level was modernized under André Granet: the old decorative arcades were removed and replaced with cleaner, straighter galleries.
The change was so seamless that most people today have never seen the original version. What we recognize now is a simplified Eiffel Tower — less Victorian, more modern, and shaped partly by a renovation nearly 50 years after it was built.
Did you know this detail was missing?