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I am very impressed to the people who made a lot of stuff like that. I always wanted to learn how to make them. But unfortunately, I can't. So to make myself happy and contented I make sure that I have all the stuff I want or atleast search for a site like this to give my own perspective. Thanks for the post.
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Great work
1: http://funnypics3.blogspot.com/
Great collection of Funny Pics
2: http://123amazingpics.blogspot.com/
Amazing,Excellent,Awesome,Wonderful,Tremendous pics of daily things around the globe
3: http://extreme-funnyvideos.blogspot.com/
A great collection of funny videos ever
4 http://funnydotnet.blogspot.com/
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Um...too many zeros. How about 20,000 feet below the surface. 200,000 feet is not possible (on our planet, at least).
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To quote from the article you linked to, these animals are found at "depths of 600 to 800 meters (2,000 to 2,600 feet)". That sounds a bit more reasonable. Incredible fish for sure.
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It's Mad-Eye!
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"Construction of the Yusufiyah Electrical Generation Plant was started in 2001 by the Soviets"
Круто, я точно знал что Советский Союз, нашу родную Империю Зла, перестройкой так просто не угрохать. Возможно, СССР ещё даже слегонца жив.
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Great post.
The Swedish substation totally looks like "Return of the Jedi". I kept looking for Chewbacca.
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My Russian is pretty weak (nonexistant), but I'm willing to guess that Matthias is saying what I was going to say - that in 2001 there weren't any "Soviets", so perhaps you meant "Russians".
Sources disagree about when it was constructed, varying from 1980 to 1989 to 1996 to 2001.
The best explanation for that appears to be (according to
RIAN), that construction started under Soviet direction in 1989, was put on hiatus for a decade after the Gulf War, and Russians went back to work on it
in 2001 until conditions [and probably lack of payment] led them to leave in 2004.
So both "Soviet" and "2001" are reasonable, just not quite in the conjunction offered.
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Some of these pics look straight out of Gotham City.
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What about the most famous London power station? Battersea!!! The one Pink Floyd took to hang the pink inflatable pig on the two front towers, for taking a picture for their album.
Sometimes I go there and I think that it's a shame that they abandoned such a marvellous magnificent architectural beauty...
It seems that has been recently bought and will be transformed in a shopping center (but maybe I'm wrong)
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wow, I mean how do you keep coming up with fresh ideas like this.
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That BC Hydro plant in Vancouver is amazing. I would like to see someone convert that into a resort / hotel. Even better yet, a museum.
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How about Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant?
More infoOr how about Richmond Generating Station?
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Have you seen this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BBarnowiec_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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Круто, я точно знал что Советский Союз, нашу родную Империю Зла, перестройкой так просто не угрохать. Возможно, СССР ещё даже слегонца жив.
Actually, what Маттиас said was something more or less like this:
Cool! I just knew that the Soviet Union, our own Empire of Evil, couldn't be destroyed so easily by perestroika. Perhaps the USSR is still alive even today.
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Check out OMSI's Turbine Hall. The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry is located in a building donated by the Portland General Electric company. Massive indoor space with the overhead cranes still in place. Picture here: http://www.omsi.info/visit/physics/engineerit/graphics/components/turbinehall.jpg
and more info here: http://www.omsi.org/visit/physics/
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You can have a great day out at this dissused atomic power station in Germany:
http://www.wunderlandkalkar.eu/ws/content.asp?navigationId=45&base=1&Title=Kernie's%20Familiepark
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here the hell is Yamantau?
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The Cruas cooling tower in France is definetely not abandonned...
have a look at this pretty picture on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rogerjb/2218066191/
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Regarding the 'Skylon'; I am skeptical of websites wherein the apostrophe is abused and the HTML is invalid.
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At http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/publications/lifepublications/lifefocus/documents/military_en.pdf (page 29) you will find a couple of (fairly poor) pictures of the Porton Down antscape - hectares of anthills, cheek by jowl, albeit without the geometric regularity your pictures show. Could your mounds have been "built" by insects? I imagine it would take some hundreds of years for such mounds to naturally erode away (depending on local conditions). Here in Wiltshire, UK, there are a good number of neolithic burial mounds which have survived several thousand years, and some of these would (even when "new") have been no higher than the mounds you describe. So current occupation by ants need not rule out such origins. Just a thought!
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But, given the pictures, the mounds aren't meticulous and regular, especially in a way defying natural creation.
They're not all that regular and not at all meticulously laid out in the example images... the Google ones particularly make them look like an erosive artifact.
(The seismic activity hypothesis looks pretty likely, to my eyes.)
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My guess would be that at one time a certain type of tree or plant grew where the mounds are, and rain eroded the areas between them, where there were fewer roots to hold onto the earth. Eventually the trees/ plants died off for some reason, leaving the mounds.
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Looks like a standing wave pattern to me. I wonder how the locations of these sites would map compared to sources of vibrations. Hmmm.
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Well it has kind of an texture like some footwear. Maybe it's the carbon footprint?
The other thought I had that when mud dries out it leaves cracks in it (like here http://www.photos.com/en/search/close-up?oid=2710969&hoid=8f04e1d10fb5cea7a9bcc4c10ceb71ec)
and those mountains are some sort of soil that dried up deep into ground and bigger cracks appeared. Through time wind has carved the edges off the cracks and made those bumps look smooth.
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To me the patterns kinda look like when water is boiling in a pot..
Could at one point they could all have been hot springs?
Water:
http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/01/boiling-water-photo-weird-photos-of.html
sulfur springs:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/3025698529/
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Goose bumps on Mother Earth as she cools down.
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I live near the Mima mounds in Olympia and have heard professors speculate on theories. There is zero evidence of any link to animals. We are close to the terminus of the gaciers during the last ice age. But the most reasonable hypothesis that I've heard has to do with seismic activity. If you put sand on a piece of plywood and bang rythmically with a hammer it forms into regularly spaced little mounds.
Steve in Olympia
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Really big frost heaves?
Either that or Mothra eggs.
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After reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mima_Mounds
It seems there is likely a variety of explanations for various mounds around the world. Here in MN I've seen what pocket gophers can do.
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My guess would be... grass. Perhaps with some helper ants/insects/rodents/rabbits for soil fertilisation and turnover. Seeing how quickly grass can build up topsoil (for instance, over a paved path), I don't doubt that over centuries such mounds could build up. All it needs, is some positive feedback between ground surface height (above the water table, or frost zone, or dew-catching, or wind-blown dust collecting, or average sunlight levels) and rate of grass growth - and you'd get mounds. Big ones.
Heck, it might even be something as simple as rabbits liking to sit on top of the mounds for the view, and pooping there - greener grass, more rabbits, more... etc.
Positive feedback is a powerful effect. (Says me, the electronics engineer.)
TerraHertz
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Of course they are natural. Just because the exact method of their formation is not yet known is no reason to jump to supernatural conclusions.
Looks to me like an interference pattern of some sort, probably seismic.
Your statement that natural formations "can't be as precise, orderly, or meticulous as the mounds" is breathtakingly ignorant.
Here's an example of a different natural phenomenon creating an equally strange regular landscape: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2665675.stm
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I have to agree with Bill, those look like acoustic wave patterns created by some sort of seismic activity. To indicate cause by flora or fauna, there would have to be traceable remains of either in, on, or around those mounds.
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As far as I have read and understood those mounds were made by indians. They used them to grow certain crops that needed a type of ground elevation, in order to get the conditions right for the crops to grow (moisture levels etc.).
source:
http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/product-description/1400032059
(apparently this theory of those mounds being human made is supported broadly among archaeologists, and having read that book i'm also inclined to believe it to be true)
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Hmm, miniature giant space gophers?
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Ants
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I live near some of these and have wondered about them for years. Glad to finally have a name for them and to know no one else knows that they are either.
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I couldn't even start guessing what the heck these things are. I just find it funny that Canada is referred to as an "exotic locale" along with Kenya and Australia.
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Clearly these are NOT "Mothra eggs",
but rather the pupae mounds left whenever Rush Limbaugh visits an area.
When he and Sarah Palin are declared
King and Queen, they will burst forth
and destroy Godless heathens and organic farms the world over.
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I think theyre made from earthquakes when the ground is loose like sand forms these shapes when on something that vibrates at the right frequency. This could be a bigger scale of it.
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Where's the mystery?
Looking at them, i'd say they're caused by the vibration of the earth (the schumann resonance)
and fluctous interference with the cosmic hum (prana/vril/orgone/ether).
Check out the field of Cymatics of Prof Dr. Hans Jenny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY6z2hLgYuY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWadDtIFPNs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3csi-2Hrzhg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bAmjRK9wBA
[B]Everything[/B] is a a vibration.
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Hey! These are the places where the Teletubbies live! I KNEW they weren't just fairy tales! :)
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I think they are likely the remnants
of forests. Each mound is a root ball
left over from a decayed tree. The root ball decayed into a pile ofcompost
that eventually became a mound. That is why they are so consistent in form
and the same around the world.
virag0
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re:virag0 - Wow, there is a fresh look on things! )
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Seems like regularly spaced Pingo formation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingo
Pingos form from ice lensen in periglacial climates, so it makes sense that they would be found at the edges of ancient ice caps.
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What Anonymous wrote sounds very plausible: "My guess would be that at one time a certain type of tree or plant grew where the mounds are, and rain eroded the areas between them, where there were fewer roots to hold onto the earth. Eventually the trees/ plants died off for some reason, leaving the mounds."
But I am sure that scientists would easily be able to confirm this by simply digging a big hole in one these mounded areas are analyzing the soil and so forth.
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I have spent a bit of time looking at these mounds in Oregon and California and find that ALL 3 main theories for the mounds FAIL for the same reason, none come lose to covering the range of the mounds.
FAR MORE MOUNDS exist in areas that
1. are not seismically active than are.
2. are outside the range of gophers than within (also there is no signs of gopher activity within the mounds.) This theory is stupidity squared anyway.
3. are outside of areas of glacial wash than are in such areas.
There is no plant or animal that even comes close to covering the entire range of the mounds.
What they are is unknown, they have the appearance of agricultural areas and their internal structure indicates the same thing. This does not mean that is what they are, but this is the only hypothesis that cannot be easily eliminated based on range and structure. The argument against this is that no people were around to build them. Try and find solid research to support this and you may be surprised at the lack thereof.
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Very cool post!
Thanks!
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That girl in the first picture for "construction land" looks like she's having the time of her life.
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I can't believe it. You missed the best one - Loveland - the sex theme park on Jeju-do in South Korea.
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interesting list of theme parks. I wil be checking out Disney world in a few months, hope its as good as people say it is.
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Its really great photos and their description. Nice job done
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i go to uni in kent, which is located about 3 miles from their largest site, in addition that site is also right next to one of kents largest clubs and i think its definatly time for some night-time drunken exploring
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it was a surprise to find the limestone heritage on this site since its not a theme park but an open air museum depicting the soft stone building traditions of Malta (i guess you have realised that im maltese! :) ) one though can try his or her hand at stone carving once you are at it.. :)
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Pedro's south of the border is truly one of the saddest excuses for a theme park you could see. The ONLY reason to stop there is for fireworks, or to gas up your car... If you drive to NC on I-95 you cant miss it, its literally on the border between SC and NC
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The big chocolate character looks weird...
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Wow, that airplane propeller ride looks like fun!
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You forgot Disney's California Adventure. A theme park with such a bad theme and so poorly executed, that it is now being remodeled and expanded at the price tag of $1 billion.
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awsoem! I want to go to them all just for the sheer weirdness of it all
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Wall, SD would fit on this list...
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i go to uni in kent, which is located about 3 miles from their largest site, in addition that site is also right next to one of kents largest clubs and i think its definatly time for some night-time drunken exploring
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Hmm...House on the Rock should be here!
It's the most amazing!!!
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The link to the nazi-era color photos doesn't work. This one does.
http://d-m-vestnik.livejournal.com/142922.html
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Thank you - link fixed
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The last photo ("Total Bliss") is Kiev, Ukraine.
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Cute animal the mere cat I think it was. Overall nice pics nice post thanks for it Avi.
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One of the best articles in the last few weeks.
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This is why I visit your site everyday.
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michael palin visited prora in his last bbc series, you just reminded me of the name. thanks!
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superb article!
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Thanks once again for a great post. The learned architectural comments highlight the decided similarities between Socialist and National Socialist art, and reinforce the insight that Nazism was in fact merely a heresy of Marxism.
A useful comparison would be to the neo-Imperialist architecture of the new 0bama displays, beginning with the faux-Roman structures at the Denver convention. Not much changes.
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I like your web since long time ago and this is a very interesting article.
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Rob de Witt is another ignoramus who graduated at the Norris-Palin University of Political Science...
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Great architecture! Beautiful and clasic!
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I enjoyed reading / watching your article, especially as a German. I really appreciate your neutral description of German history, maybe better than some contemporary German historians do. This helps the younger people to get distance to things my generation never dealt with.
I don't forget history, but I live in present. Great contribution, thanks!
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Great post!!! I like this site very much, it's very funny and informative. However, it's sad that such a great post just made the De Witt guy reinforce his wrong insights...
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like the first comment says, One of the best articles last weeks.
about the Prora Rugen, There are plans to make it into a youth hostel. A dutch architect -Kempe Thill- has won a recent (2007) competition about "what to do with the building"
here is the site:
http://www.atelierkempethill.com/0030.html
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There remain huge debates as many classical buildings are still being pulled down as the unwanted "wrong kind of architecture" for a modern Germany.
The other invented architecture, Volk, has usually been assimilated, and the only alterations one usually sees is removal of various swastikas. Hitler's personal home, tea house, and other homes in the Volk style in Berchtesgaden on the Obersalzberg were destroyed during or immediately after the war. Most other buildings in this style were just reused and accepted.
I'd like to see another illustrated article on this invented architectural style.
Much of Prora has recently, (2008), been sold and condos seem to be in the structures future.
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Grotesquely imposing structures, dwarfing the pathetic human form...didn't Albert Speer also design the Hummer?
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I'm happy to have given you all the opportunity to practice your condescension. I'm certain you have done sufficient research to refute my point, since you were proud enough of your opinions to post them anonymously ;-}.
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I always wondered about Hitlers fascination of the Romans. He was obsessed with Nordic lore, but Roman architecture.
It was the naked men sculptures, had to be.
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been visiting your blog for years. nice find.
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Robert Hughes' "The Shock of the New" has a good discussion of totalitarian architecture, where he describes the pseudo-classical architecture as "totalitarian doric" and also observes that the buildings in the New York state government mall in Albany would like perfectly natural with hammer and sickle or swastika decorations.
On a related note, the Beijing Olympic structures seem like a modern version of this.
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Thank you guys for all the info, this is why we totally enjoy comments on DRB :)
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Just goes to show that bad regimes can make good art and impressive architecture. It was ironic that everytime we saw a new concrete-and-steel box go up in our town... a school, or an office building, and we'd deride it as "communist looking". And yet when you compare postwar architecture of the US and the USSR, the Soviets were the ones making beautiful, impressive buildings, while it was we who were making the plain, soulless glass boxes. East Germany promoted that kind of Phillip Johnson asthetic, but the Russians knew how to make an impressive building (though often
constructed poorly). I'll take the magnificent
Moscow State University main building anyday over soul-sucking boxes like the Seagram Building.
The best comment ever made about our numbing modern architecture of the postwar years was made by Tom Wolfe, when he looked at the rows of plain, glass and steel boxes of Manhattan and called it the "Rue De Regret".
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DesCorp - Moscow University Building perhaps needs an article in itself...
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Lichterdom was - according to Speers son - one of the works he was most proud of.
Actually it was a solution to a funny problem: Four groups of the armed forces were to parade: Army, Navy, Airforce and the 'Desk-force'. The latter were not so fit for parading - out of practice and out of shape. To hide this is it was decided to make the parade at night! But the decorations were made for daylight use and Speer came up with the idea of the unusual use of searchlights. Between 1 and 200 were needed and this covered the entire German searchlight reserve. Hitler had to be asked and was delighted: Our enemies will never believe, that we use all our reserves - off course we do it.
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The pic of the 1937 is amazing considering it's context and time. I'd not seen it before. Thank you.
If you've not done an article on it yet, it would be interesting to compare the architecture of the same time between the Soviet Union and the US (Germany could be included). As an example, Moscow State U's building is remarkably similar to what was happening in lower Manhattan (and Rockefeller Center).
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/13358802
Keep up the great work DRB.
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Thanks for the very interesting and informative article.
Rob De Witt would have fit in & thrived in Germany as chief sophist at the time.
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This was a great detailed article. Thanks for the great work.
James
http://thehistorycellar.blogspot.com/
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The architecture featured at my Youtube channel may interest you: www.youtube.com/luddite333
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Wonderful piece. Thankyou. Have added outgoing links back to here from a piece on Blather which touches on this: http://www.blather.net/globaleyes/archives/2009/01/welcome_to_the_game.html
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