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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116527462671082376 Before it was called the Eiffel Tower, it was known as La Tour de Trois Cent Mètres (The Three Hundred Meter Tower). High-brow Parisian artists and writers hated it at first, but eventually it was a huge popular success following its creation for the Exposition Universelle de 1889. London thought about creating its own Eiffel Tower and called for proposals. The project was never completed, but here are some of the proposals.