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04-15-2019, 01:34 PM #1Senior Member
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One of the most iconic architectural masterpieces is burning
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/15/pari...e-reuters.html
Current word is it was an accident. One can only hope, but man, what an accident...
Architectural... forgive my rushed brain fart of a spelling.Last edited by Zen Ape; 04-15-2019 at 01:37 PM.
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Tragic. I really hate to see anything of historical significance go up like that.
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A great loss. What centuries of conflict, including two World Wars, left standing is reduced to embers in just hours.
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If you have been putting off visiting Notre Dame Cathedral ...too late now
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The cathedral of Notre Dame in St. Lo was severely damaged as a result of bombing in WWII and was rebuilt. Hopefully the same can be done for this cathedral.
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04-15-2019, 05:16 PM #8
That is a terrible shame to lose such an iconic component of history. I was watching the conflagration and was wondering what all the scaffolding was in the video. Then I find that they were performing "renovation". I think that they renovated it to a smoking hole in the ground.
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Other cathedrals have been rebuilt. Vienna, Cologne... But still, what a loss.
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