Books burn – easily. Also those in the Library of Congress that was established in 1800. First the Brits burned it down with the rest of the Capitol in 1814. It befell to Thomas Jefferson, who owned the largest personal. collection of books in the US, to sell his 6500 books to the nation toContinue reading “A temple of knowledge”
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A new train shed in NYC
The destruction of the old Penn Station in New York in 1963 was pure vandalism – this 1910 structure was modelled after the baths of Diocletian, and provided a suitable combination of steel construction and Roman-inspired grandeur for the golden age of train travel. The rabbit warren of the modern Penn Station that followed wasContinue reading “A new train shed in NYC”
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