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Notes from FN42
At last! See box for the list of
current Hambassadors, in alphabetical
order by country.
Where only a country is listed, we
have a vacancy; countries not listed
at all have never had a Hambassador,
and we will welcome
volunteers. (Preference will be
given to nationals of a country;
please give years and experience
asa ham.)
Esperantist hams note: Major
S. N. Rai Deb Barma (Retired),
Krishnaloy. Vivekananda Sarani.
Narendrapur-743508, West Bengal,
India, expresses interest in
the International League of Amateur
Radio Esperantists (see
June. 1988. issue, p.90. col. 4,
and the July issue. p.91. col. 1).
Roundup
Country of the Month: France.
What tallest structure in the world
(then) celebrates its centennial
this year and was saved from being
torn down by The Unknown
Ham?
Well, sort of: When radio was
invented, what was virtually the
world's longest-range antenna
was placed atop the structure.
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Then in 1914, thanks to the antenna,
a secret message was picked
up telling of an impending attack
on the city in which this structure
was built, and troops were moved
into position in time for a famous
bailie. That ended all thought of
demolition.
The structure was the Eiffel
Tower, of course, the city was
Paris, and the battle was of the
Marne. The tower was built for a
world exhibition and was not in·
tended to be permanent-which
was fine by its critics, one of whom
called it a " hollow candlestick,"
and another, an "arrogant piece
of ironwork."
It is a tourist landmark, and in
honor of its birthday on May 15,
tourists and the world will be seeing
the first of many 1989 spectacles.
One hundred giant lights will
be turned on around the city and
100 giant balloons, 20' in diameter,
will be launched to form a 15­
mile ring around the tower. Fireworks
will blaze into the sky, and
the official birthday message is an
exhortation " to make universal
communication the great adventure
of the 21 st century,"
The tower will be an "electronic
Tower of Babel" for the rest of
t-cchnoren's Day, China; National Day, Tunisia (7th for Chad ,
25th for Mozambique).
2-Anniversary of the Republic, Italy; Coronation Day, Great
Britain .
3-Labor Day, Bahamas.
5-Constitution Day, Denmark; Liberation Day, Seychelles;
Bank Holiday, Ireland; Queen's Birthday, New Zealand
(10th for Great Britain).
6-Memorial Day, South Korea; National Holiday, Sweden
(10th for Portugal, zaro for Luxembourg).
7-lndependence Day, Norway (12th for Philippines, 26th for
Madagascar and Somalia, 29th for Seychelles). We asked
this question a couple of years ago-and nobody took the
bait, We're trying again: Liberation Day for the Seychet/es
was on the third. Independence Dayan the 29th. What could
the status of these 86 islands and its (now 67,000) people
have been between June 5 (liberation) and June 29 (independence)?-CCC
13-Corrective Movement Day, Yemen.
!'-Flag Day, USA (20th lor Argentina) .
17-Republic Day, Iceland; Commemoration Day, West Germany.
ta-cevecueuon Day, Egypt; Father 's Day, USA.
19-Revotution Day. Algeria.
22-National Sovereignty Day, Haiti.
24-Peasants Day, Peru; Kings Day, Spain; St. Jean Baptiste
Day, Canada .
1989, with a " World Channel"
broadcasting radio and TV to every
naticn. in many languages, by
satellite 24 hours a day. (From a
story by John Njcr. in Politiken,
Copenhagen, reprinted in World
Press Review,)
[In 1944, the RP part of eee,
then in the US Army Signal Corps
which was using the tower, went
to its topmost level, planning to
climb the vertical ladder and then
stick a hand higher than the tip.
When he got up there he had no
trouble changing his mind!
Rereading a wartime letter home
many years later, however, he
found he had jokingly predicted
he'dprObably claim he did it, anyway.
Embarrassing, because st-
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