• The the French tricolor was unfurled on top of the Eiffel Tower by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel to mark its completion on the 31st of March 1889.
• It was built in two years by 132 workers and 50 engineers
• The Eiffel tower is 320 metres high and it weighs 7000 tons
• It has 1710 steps!
• It was was to be demolished in 1909 but its use as a telecommunication tower saved it
• It attracts 5.5 millions visitors every year

Some famous birthdays include:

• Arthur Griffith - Irish journalist and one of the founders of Sinn Féin was born in 1872

• Rene Descartes - French mathematician, scientist and philosopher was born in 1596

Happy birthday to:

• Christopher Walken - Actor - 65 today
• Richard Chamberlain - Actor - 74 today (wow - thought he was younger)
• Rhea Perlman - Actress (”Cheers” & Danny De Vito’s other half) - 60 today
• Ed Marinaro - Actor (”Hill Street Blues”) - 58 today

Have a good day ….. and thanks for the entertainment!

If you're new here, you may like to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

It amazes me how little we know about our national flag.

Some facts about our national flag:

• Our flag is a tricolour of green, white and orange
• It’s twice as wide as it is high
• The three colours are of equal size and the green goes next to the flagstaff
• The flag was first introduced by Thomas Francis Meagher in 1848
• He based it on the French tricolour
• The green colour stands for the older Gaelic tradition and the orange stands for the supporters of William of Orange
• The white in the centre stands for a lasting truce between the ‘Orange’ and the ‘Green’
• It was raised above the General Post Office in Dublin during the Easter Rising of 1916
• The tricolour became our national flag after the Rising
• It is now enshrined in the Constitution of Ireland