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I have seen this several times. Stunning. No words for it.
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Saint Peter's Basilica. To put things in perspective, the black lettering you see around the walls and the base of the dome are themselves 2 meters tall.
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Thread of paintings inspired by Shakespeare’s plays 🧵
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hihi! i got my Ⓜ️oxiedrop allocation...did you get yours? cc @betashop.eth @airstack.eth
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How do we go back to being a society that builds things like this?
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Reminder that Argentina was once as rich as the US and Buenos Aires was "the Paris of South America".
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Are there really 1.4 MILLION people following this page?! Say hi if you're real.
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In Gothic, Ruskin found the most honest and enduring connection to the past of all.
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In your opinion, when did architecture peak? According to the 7 principles of architecture, there is only one correct answer... 🧵
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The great Gothic facades of old told a thousand stories.
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When Julius Caesar was assassinated, it wasn't by a lone attacker — it was a group of his rivals in the Senate.
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Big update! I'm launching a FREE newsletter.
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When Julius Caesar was assassinated, it wasn't by a lone attacker — it was a group of his rivals in the Senate.
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3rd is Venus, for those who did good things but chased sinful urges while doing so.
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So much beauty is being recovered in the region, like this Christ Pantocrator in a Göreme cave church.
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In 1963, a man noticed his chickens disappearing through a hole in his basement.
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Without doubt one of France's finest cathedrals. Consecrated in the presence of William the Conqueror in 1063 — and subsequently redesigned as this majestic Gothic structure in the 13th century. Heaven made visible on Earth.
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Exactly 4 years ago, the Hagia Sophia was converted to a mosque.
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Precisely how is harder to answer. It's believed they were all carved over 24 years. With basic hand tools, they excavated thousands of tons of stone — as legend has it, with help from above...
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Next is Sacra di San Michele, at the peak of Mount Pirchiriano (near Turin).
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