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SLPing Through the Cracks
The ice never melts under the British Empire.It's like that ice hockey world championship the UK won in the 30s with a team largely composed of Canadians.
The ice never melts under the British Empire.It's like that ice hockey world championship the UK won in the 30s with a team largely composed of Canadians.
Speaking of which, one of my favourite places in Cambridge (even though I only really used its libraries when doing History & Philosophy of Science) is the Sidgwick Site, which has a load of mismatched but architecturally interesting libraries and faculties all shoved together like it's the hub world of an adventure game.The Toronto 'new' city hall is definitely one of the most Star Trek Matte Painting buildings to actually exist in real life.
The seeley is very James StirlingSpeaking of which, one of my favourite places in Cambridge (even though I only really used its libraries when doing History & Philosophy of Science) is the Sidgwick Site, which has a load of mismatched but architecturally interesting libraries and faculties all shoved together like it's the hub world of an adventure game.
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Law Faculty - futuristic aircraft hangar
Divinity Faculty - lab from Tiberian Sun
Seeley Library (history) - allegedly supposed to look like an opening book - I once spent an afternoon researching the Manhattan Project in there
Some of them even just have staircases on the outside that end in blank walls etc., as though it's a buggy level from a beta version of Myst or something. You can't see it very well in this image, but the Faculty of English has an extra blank wall with an empty window in it in the middle of the bike park that doesn't connect to anything, as though one of the devs misplaced it.
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I once suggested the joke conspiracy theory that Roosevelt secretly engineered WW2 just to kill off baseball in the UK before we made a habit of beating the Americans at it.
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Tom Brady also played baseball in high school and was even drafted by the Montreal Expos. He chose football instead.
From the same era that generated Avon and Solent City.SELNEC is one of those really fascinating council areas that everyone would have been desperately trying to find a better name for but never succeeding.
I get the same feeling whenever I see the Iroquois Confederacy referred to as the Six Nations, or the Five Nations for that matter before the Iroquois admitted Italy.Interesting chronauseous use of the term "United Nations" in a contemporary (well, 1759) account of the negotiation of the Treaty of Easton (1758) between 13 Native American Indian nations and the colonial governments of Pennsylvania and New Jersey (@Ciclavex).
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(For more, see here: https://archive.org/details/sim_gentlemans-magazine_1759-03_29_3/page/108/mode/2up )
I think the most what if? Fascistic architecture has to be at Norwich city hall especially its lions.If we're speaking architecture, there's Antigone neighbourhood in Montpellier, definitely not an ISOTed fascist or Stalinist planned city.
Given Nottingham’s radical history, it’s perfectly possible that you could see Nottingham Council House in an Alternate World being named the ‘Hall of Fallen Brothers’ or something.
I really didn’t like working and having lectures in the Seeley building, looks horrible, felt very exposed to the weather and the library was so open and bright.Speaking of which, one of my favourite places in Cambridge (even though I only really used its libraries when doing History & Philosophy of Science) is the Sidgwick Site, which has a load of mismatched but architecturally interesting libraries and faculties all shoved together like it's the hub world of an adventure game.
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Law Faculty - futuristic aircraft hangar
Divinity Faculty - lab from Tiberian Sun
Seeley Library (history) - allegedly supposed to look like an opening book - I once spent an afternoon researching the Manhattan Project in there
Some of them even just have staircases on the outside that end in blank walls etc., as though it's a buggy level from a beta version of Myst or something. You can't see it very well in this image, but the Faculty of English has an extra blank wall with an empty window in it in the middle of the bike park that doesn't connect to anything, as though one of the devs misplaced it.
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