[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from March 8 (reply #32).

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[BroJoeK]

"how they knew that 'the square of the hypotenuse...' "

About which there was a lota news some years later, involving a modern major general, his beautiful daughters and those rascally pirates.

;-)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from March 11 (reply #45). ]

March 13. Anderson took me yesterday to see the designs for the Roman Catholic Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. Very ambitious; scale very grand indeed – likely to be effective. Cheap ornamentation in iron; the mullions, mouldings, pillars open work spires all iron. . . . Will surely rack itself to pieces by expansion and contraction of its incongruous materials within five years after it’s finished.

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