That page notes that "The introduction of Norman French to England also had a pronounced effect [on Wankers]." It also says that, while migrating to British colonies abroad, "Although the conditions on the ships were extremely cramped[...] many [Wankers] prospered."
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I read somewhere that Bush is one of the few recording industry artists to own the full rights to the master recordings of her music, so she actually does take the Lioness' Share of revenue from streaming. The estimate is that she's earned a little over $2 million USD this year, just from the one song.
From a glance (ie, I may well be wrong), it doesn't look at all like they tried to emulate the curved (no straight line) columns, which is what gives them the appearance of lightness and elegance. Instead they seem to use basic straight lines for them, with the end result being...well...not really memorable?TIL the Americans built the Parthenon in Nashville.
I think it was Miles Copeland Jr, another of the Operation Ajax (the overthrow of Mossadeq) braintrust with the CIA, who said he thought the U.S. didn't overthrow enough foreign governments. Lovely guys.
It is totally unsurprising they would think that way, but more surprising that they thought they could could justify their actions by saying "Iran would not sell the oil, and the only thing we could think to do was overthrow a democratically elected leader".
As near as I can tell, the lines are correct.From a glance (ie, I may well be wrong), it doesn't look at all like they tried to emulate the curved (no straight line) columns, which is what gives them the appearance of lightness and elegance. Instead they seem to use basic straight lines for them, with the end result being...well...not really memorable?
If they did wish to emulate it, afaik it was already demonstrated (for example, by Constantin Caratheodory) how the ancient builders might have calculated and built the curvature. So maybe they did utilize that or some other emulation.
It's amazing how much of that history has been completely submerged here. It isn't gone, it's in books and in Wikipedia and whatnot, but I don't know if any of it gets taught in school, unless you take a class in college that focuses on the post-War period. I didn't know a thing about Copeland Jr until a few years ago, and I knew next to nothing about the Dulles brothers until I read a book on them 6 or 8 years ago. When John Foster Dulles died in 1959, there was a massive state funeral, but by the time I was in high school, 25-30 years later, I doubt many people my age even knew who the airport in Washington DC was named for. If I walked over to the nearby supermarket today and asked people who Mossadeq or Dulles or Copeland Jr were, I wonder if any of them would even say the names "ring a bell." The older folks, maybe. I have an 85-yr-old colleague who knows a little about that history, just because he was alive at the time. My boss' 17-year-old son is here today. Should I ask him if he knows who Mohammed Mossadeq was?
I've seen the Nashville Parthenon and it is a wonderful structure. Unlike the ruins in Athens, this reconstruction allows one to see the grandeur of the original without having to imagine all the now missing parts. What was most surprising to me when I saw it was just how big it was. Sure it isn't made from carved marble, but that wasn't the point. And for the many millions of Americans who will never travel to Greece, it presents an excellent picture of what many first learned about in their 7th grade Ancient history class. It is a better celebration of ancient Greece for most people than ruins.TIL the Americans built the Parthenon in Nashville.
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