"The Collapse of Complex Societes", parts 1-2

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monumental architecture, artistic and literary achievements, and the like; - less flow of information between individuals, between political and economic groups, and between a cen

2blowhards.com: Gentrification: Good or Evil?

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periods of American architecture, from the Federal to the Beaux-Arts.) In the 1950s and 1960s, the Heights "gentrified"--or, as I prefer to put it, re-gentrified. Other neighborho
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Theiling Online: Word Frequency List for English

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2blowhards.com: Dear National Trust ...

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you've fallen for the architecture world's argument that modernism now deserves to be seen not as a disastrous episode in architecture history, but as a worthy-of-preservation mom
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Byzantine Empire - Crystalinks

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Greek and Roman art and architecture; it preserved and transmitted much of this heritage to the West until Western artists were able to approach antiquity directly. Early Byzantin

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

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a dozen centuries. The architecture of their wooden buildings, some of them several centuries old, indicates a love for simple stability, adapted to expediency and efficiency. Art

Some things to see around the Cote d'Azur

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of the building. The architecture competes with the art, which I personally find a good thing. [more] Espace de l'Art Concret (Mouans-Sartoux) The Chateau de Mouans, a small, tria

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Strange Peoples, by Frederick Starr

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developed an art and architecture which impressed the world, formed a literature and theatre that have never been surpassed; Rome taught mankind government and law; Italy has prod

Charles Diehl. BYZANTINE ART.

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creations in all architecture", a statement the truth of which is clearly shown by a close study of this famous monument. The impression given by the exterior is, it is true, by n

The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury by Richard de Bury - Full Text Free Book

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of the Jews; the architecture of the Babylonians; the agriculture of Noah the magic arts of Moses; the geometry of Joshua; the enigmas of Samson; the problems of Solomon from the

Campbel, Joseph "Myths to Live By"

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the crumbling medieval architecture of his mother's Church.            For not only have all the old mythic notions of the n

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