Browncoat Bar & Grill - AWOL no longer
POSTED BY: Kelkhil
UPDATED: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:54
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aaaaaw thanks. *hugs back* :)
*orders a hot tea* first final today, but one I'm totally not worried about. *settles with tea and tries to stay warm in cold-ass apartment*
So, anyone wanna know what the first great cities of Europe were modeled after? How about Versailles?
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"I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."
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You can't take the sky from me...
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Sure I'd love to know... tell us everything!! ( it'll help you retain the information for the test...sorry teacher reflex)
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Les mortels meurent. Qu'importe la façon?- LaCroix
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lol, tis ok. well, the grid structure for towns (look at today's cities for that structure) used in many early European towns and cities was actually taken from a Greek called Hippodamus who drew up the plans for the rebuilding of Miletus after they were attacked by the Persians. This was the first real evidence of city planning, as all previous towns expanded by way of organic growth (such as Athens).
To skip ahead a millenia or so to Versailles (though a lot of interesting stuff city-wise happens between Athens and Versailles), it started out as a rural area but was made into 'the next Paris' because Louis XIV didn't like Paris (as a child in the regency he and his family were imprisoned in the Louvre [which was the royal palace before it became a museum]) and wanted to have his capital elsewhere. He made HUGE changes to the town in order to make it his new city, including the hiring of a gardener to put together huge, geometrically symmetrical gardens behind the palace (a mile and a half long and a half a mile wide, you could fit probably twenty of Louis' palaces in that single garden). This 'style' or 'design' was copied by multiple other royalties who came to Versailles, saw it, and said (in the words of my professor) "I gotta get me one of those!!" Some famous reproductions of Versailles are seen in St. Petersburg at the 'summer palace' and also in Hampton Court.
little tidbit of information: did you know that the man who designed Washington DC was French? (probably did, lol) his name was Pierre L'Enfant, grew up in Versailles, and we wanted him to create a city which directed everyone to a single central point in the city (if you look at an aerial map of DC, you'll see that this is true, and that it is modeled after Versailles, because in Versailles all the main roads lead to the palace). He designed the "People's Palace" which is, of course, Congress.
I'll stop rambling now :-P lol
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Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky?
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you?
"I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."
A man is least himself when he speaks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will show you his true self.
You can't take the sky from me...
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Originally posted by freelancertex:
groupie: LOVE that little stick figure animation in ur sig. where do u find that stuff?
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I have become a Photobucket junkie, 'cause I have no time to be creative myself. And it's sooo easy to link from.
Let's have a black celebration
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of another black day.
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lol. XD
btw, love the monty python bit, dunno if i mentioned
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Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky?
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you?
"I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."
A man is least himself when he speaks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will show you his true self.
You can't take the sky from me...
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Freelancer...wow I'm impressed:)
OK . I just so can't wait for this weekend! I have a nice trip planned and I am taking Friday and Monday off... so so so excited!!!
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Nope, don't use cologne. Women I date think the smell of sawdust is sexy. That's probably why I don't... date many women.- Gibbs
Les mortels meurent. Qu'importe la façon?- LaCroix
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Where ya goin', MsB?
((bored))
((toys with an empty Dew can))
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*gets out a new, shiney, frosted Dew can for the Kitten of much Heat*
Here ya go
*Places on table and backs away*
Let's have a black celebration
To celebrate the fact
that we've seen the back
of another black day.
I'm not worthy!
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*runs through the bar*
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*runs back and glomps HK*
~CK
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