Category: History
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The Pantheon in Rome
Meanwhile, back at the Pantheon (118-125 AD) there is still great wonder amongst architects and engineers as to how the Romans built that dome without reinforcing the concrete and what keeps it from falling. The exterior is almost Spartan in its simplicity, basically a bare concrete drum with the gently curving dome above, unadorned with…
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Pompeii
We arrived in the national park of Pompeii in late morning, and it was jammed with tour buses and tourists. The city itself is on a hill, so there were quite a few steps to climb from the parking lot and cafe level. Mount Vesuvius looms in the not all that far distance, its now…
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Thursday Sowell Open Comments
I found this interview, and I must admit that Thomas Sowell is probably one of the most intelligent men that I’ve ever seen. I think we’ve found an articulate, clean black man. And this one is intelligent, too! Even though he was a Marxist for years (which I didn’t know and I found quite surprising),…