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RacingRodent
Consul
Yes but sometimes people trying to research ideas benefit from having the same sort of things together in one handy spot whereas the archives serve a broader purpose, complementary, not competitive
jacksjg89
PROCRASTINATOR
You know, when you put it in cartoons, it doesn't seem like such paindul experience.
A link that Admi posted on the thread 'Rome' back in 2007, it's still recommended:
http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/
http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/
This report (from a couple of months back, but I've only just got alerted to it)
is of interest, another piece of evidence for the grandiose triumphalism
that was meant to overawe and humiliate captives made to parade beneath it -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...omans-to-honour-Emperor-Titus-discovered.html
is of interest, another piece of evidence for the grandiose triumphalism
that was meant to overawe and humiliate captives made to parade beneath it -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...omans-to-honour-Emperor-Titus-discovered.html
Naraku
Draconarius
Titus seems to have a thing for arches. As the article notes, his other one, celebrating his triumph over the Jewish rebels, still stands. Until modern times, rabbis in Rome forbade any Jew from walking under it.
Dictators seem to love arches. Napoleon had one.
Hitler proposed building the largest ever in Berlin to celebrate his victories. Albert Speer's tests showed that the marshy soil would never support it. Lucky for him, he never had to explain that to his Fuhrer.
Saddam Hussein's arch, to celebrate his "victory" over Iran, still stands in Baghdad.
All of these were built for the purpose of celebrating the dictator & intimidating the masses.
It was always known that there was an arch at one end of the Circus Maximus.
There may have been a different arch at that end before Titus. The Circus had been built & rebuilt for about 300 years before his time & underwent more after his death. There is no doubt that war captives would have been lead under the arch - and the others around Rome - in a triumphal parade, before meeting their end. Though, after the 1st century, most would have been executed in Titus' other great construction project: the Colosseum.
Dictators seem to love arches. Napoleon had one.
Hitler proposed building the largest ever in Berlin to celebrate his victories. Albert Speer's tests showed that the marshy soil would never support it. Lucky for him, he never had to explain that to his Fuhrer.
Saddam Hussein's arch, to celebrate his "victory" over Iran, still stands in Baghdad.
All of these were built for the purpose of celebrating the dictator & intimidating the masses.
It was always known that there was an arch at one end of the Circus Maximus.
There may have been a different arch at that end before Titus. The Circus had been built & rebuilt for about 300 years before his time & underwent more after his death. There is no doubt that war captives would have been lead under the arch - and the others around Rome - in a triumphal parade, before meeting their end. Though, after the 1st century, most would have been executed in Titus' other great construction project: the Colosseum.
So where does this leave the Gateway Arch...
Naraku
Draconarius
Still in St Louis, I guess.
LittleSiss
Sorceress
Still in St Louis, I guess.
Somewhere in time.
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Grasshopper!
That cleared that up!!!Somewhere in time.
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Grasshopper!
Thank you both!
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mp5stab
Hair and Nails
We have yet to victoriously fly fighter jets through it 0/10
LittleSiss
Sorceress
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LittleSiss
Sorceress
BTW!
The tail is of cruciform design, with the horizontal stabilizer mounted above the fuselage.
Wiki
The tail is of cruciform design, with the horizontal stabilizer mounted above the fuselage.
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Flying low enough a B-52An A~4 might fit?
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Oh! That's Navy!
My bad!
...would fit the arch as its wingspan is less than 200 ft and the inside span of the Arch's legs is near 600 ft.
But we digress...
Another dictator's (monumentally ugly) triumphal arch is Franco's one in Madrid:
But they aren't all built by dictators, there's the Wellington Monument in London
celebrating the defeat of Napoleon:
Marble Arch, at the other end of Park Lane, was meant to look 'triumphal',
but was just a posh gateway to Buckingham Palace, and then relocated:
And India Gate in New Delhi was actually built as a WW I memorial
(yes, we forget how many Indians took part and died):
All of these are, I think, more or less closely based on
or at least echo, the Arch of Constantine in Rome:
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arber1456
Executioner
Albert Speer wanted to build the new german capital "Germania", a colection of supersuper giant buildings. Germania was never built.
Speer built the "Teahouse on the Kehlstein" - I think, the Americans call it "Eagle Nest". They built the "Teahouse" on the top on the Kehlstein in 1800 m over sealevel. The fired a street in the rocks with several tunnels and the built a elevator. You can drive with this elevator directly in the "Teahouse". You can visit it in Berchtesgaden.
Tree wishes to correct you. Tree did not build the 'Tree house', he bought it...
Tree
-Ulrika...what, Ulrika??? What the hell is a 'Teahouse' and what would it be used for???
thanks to Malins for this link:
for those, who are perhaps interested in practical inspirations from the times when such things were well established, here is a resource with instructions for recreating historical Greek, Roman and other hairstylings. https://www.youtube.com/user/jntvstp?feature=watch , or, in detail, the attempted reconstruction of the style of the Vestals, http://www.livescience.com/26112-oldest-roman-hairstyle-recreated.html
for those, who are perhaps interested in practical inspirations from the times when such things were well established, here is a resource with instructions for recreating historical Greek, Roman and other hairstylings. https://www.youtube.com/user/jntvstp?feature=watch , or, in detail, the attempted reconstruction of the style of the Vestals, http://www.livescience.com/26112-oldest-roman-hairstyle-recreated.html